European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pregnant and unwed Young women can finc help with hum monday. June 6.1986 the stars and stripes  bin Vicenza Italy Yow Pir Nant unmarried and 5,000 Miles fair Lane. It s u combination that could result in pfc Kinal Nightman and financial disaster. Dut seven years ago a Munich woman founded help Tor unwed mothers or hum an organization lending a hand to such people in the military Community. Hum is designed to fill a Gap in in services a flared by other support Agen cies said Carie Kramer who ran the pro Gram in Munich at More than two years alter Rounder Marie Scott returned to the Stales. Since its founding in Munich hum has spread to Bamburg West Ger Many and this year is opening at the army Cavern in Vincnza. It s a very worthwhile program especially Here m Europe where we Don t have the support facilities that one finds in the United Stales,1 said Kramer a respiratory therapist and paramedic with is years experience in Hospital intensive care units and emergency rooms. The birth of the program in Munich initially was focused on the in Ocsid Cnoc Munich Campus Branch of the univer sity of Maryland but organizers quickly found out thai the real need was Amon single military women. We found that there was t a great a among the teens because the Moi is usually step in Kramer said. Burn Hyrc was a real need among the sold Jet the majority of the Tijani Zaldin Cuti cols arc military women she said or the need for such a program is real Kramer said. In Vic Zgta for example about a third of the of been who attend the prenatal classed conducted at the local Hospital arc unmarried she  communities also have expressed an interest in Anab Lishing branches. Kramer aned one Small location in Italy Why in one month nine of id Prog Nan women became unmarried to theft. In Bambers the hum program has helped seven women in the year since it started. I d say we have a need military Roundup Kramer said. The program initially branched out to Bamberg when Kramer worked with her sister Marti Hunt Mcculough Olio lives there. Then Kramer left Munich last fall for Vicinia and she immedi Llly began laying the groundwork for ajar Effort. Be the groups have had a fairly steady Kennel Kramer said the goal is to have rib our goals of course would be not to have any by Siriboe that there would t be a need for such Anury Anition. But unfortunately there  the need is met in variety of ways by volunteers a thou Dalto cry on moral and emotional  support and on occasion lab " livery coaching. While the Nee people often Are great those arc relatively Small. Each organization has a Bank account and Faini Aini a Stor age facility for Donal Lonj ranging from baby Beds to Matt Niiya clothes. In Bam Bajt the organization has about Sim in funds donated from the local Vida club said Hunt Mccullough in a Toj phone interview. E can t sustain them but we can he Mcc their immediate needs she lid. If an unwed Mother comes up Short one month the group s funds will help pay for necessities such it baby food. The individuals also have Access to the storage facility to help defray the Cost of Selling up a household. The majority of the goods come from donations generally peo ple who Are leaving and need to get rid of things. All we had to do was put up a sign said Hunt Mccullough. It s amazing what people will do for a needy cause currently Kramer is studying to be come a Hospital chaplain and while she and her sister have a Strong religious background and have frequently drawn on Chapel support she emphasizes that the program is not a Chapel program. We Are not a religious organization Kramer said. It has nothing to do with carte Kramer org Niue of Branch of help far unwed Bis Phon by comm to Wenben in victim Italy religion yet everything to do with Reli Gion. But we did t want to polarize our selves. We want to make sure we would be open to  frequently the group s volunteers Are asked for advice and advice is provided but Kramer is Quick to Point out that the members do not replace professional counselling services. Nor do they look Down on their often troubled and embarrassed customers we Don t preach Spring we Don t judge and we re not thereto help that woman make a decision Sis acid that has to be a personal decision. Haj once a Young woman has decided to Contin Sofwith her pregnancy and comes to us we can help. We can be moral support we can be a Friend a shoulder to cry on somebody to talk to in Good limes end  Nav eur Fleer master chief vying for top enlisted Post Washington a Nav eur master chief Petty officer has been named As one of four finalists in the Competition for the Navy s lop enlisted Bil let master chief Petty offic Crof the Navy. Master chief Petty officer Ronnie d. Cole an aviation anti submarine warfare operator and the Fleet master chief for Nav eur was one of those selected from a Field of 2 nominees. The three other finalists were master chief Petty officer Duane r. Bushy command master chief of the submarine Theodore Roosevelt master chief Petty officer Francis a Pai Ierson command master chief for the naval training station in san Diego and master Petty officer William c. Smith Fleet master chief for the . Atlantic Fleet. The master chief Petty officer of the Navy is the senior enlisted adviser to the chief of naval pc Illions and the principal enlisted assistant tothe chief of personnel. Selection of the new lop enlisted Sailor will be announced june 17. Museum dedicated to peace to open in a Day Battle area ties on aids cases to the world health 31, including 7,3sjh_. Since  of the year. I cases reported n stood at 96,433 by May Rcd in 75 countries Paris a nations that fought in the Baltic of Normandy will Mark the 44lh anniversary of a Day on monday by opening a museum dedicated to world peace. Instead of Rusty tanks and yellowing propaganda posters Lite Mammoth Glass and Stone memorial out Side the cily of Caen will House multimedia exhibit that stress the lessons of world War 11 As much As the Battle itself. French president Francois Milter and will inaugurate the memorial outside the Normandy town on monday. Caen mayor Jean Marie Mirault said his objective in building the museum was to stress the fight against fascism not to glorify Battlefield victories. . Demo cratic rep. Sam Gibbons of Florida a supporter of the project concurred in an interview saturday. Although we were fighting Battles Over real estate the War was really Aboul ideological matters said Gib Bons who parachuted behind German lines during the invasion and is the Only Normandy Veteran still serv ing in Congress he said the museum would show the whys of the disintegration of the world after world War  Allied forces landed along an 81-mile front of nor Mandy coastline on june 6, 1944, beginning what was probably the largest Battle of history. More than 3 million soldiers fought for 76 Days during which 167,000 men died or were wounded. The Allied Triumph crushed nazi forces in France and marked a turning Point in the War. The museum includes a research Center with comp in cd Access to War archives in France and overseas a film and photography Archive and six exhibits thai explain the development of the War from its origins inthe Post world War i period. For decades veterans of the Allied armies have gathered on the windswept beaches of Northern France each june to celebrate the Battle. But after the 40lh anniversary celebrations in 1984 which the Ger mans protested because they had not been invited Girault envisioned a memorial project that would bring the former adversaries together. In september 1986, at the ground breaking ceremony for the museum each nation that participated in the Battle helped Lay Cornerstones France the United states Britain Czechoslovakia Poland the nether lands Canada Norway Belgium Greece and Luxem Bourg As Well As the two Germany. For monday s ceremony the soviet Union Japan and Italy were sending delegations. Although there arc several Small War museums and exhibits around Normandy the museum outside Caen is the first in France to address the War in in entirely