European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Arm Landers dear readers today i m going to Tell you about a once in a lifetime Opportunity for men and women who want to be physicians. If you Are a is. Citizen a col lege graduate 27 or younger mar ried or single and have the desire to work in the Field of Medicine and serve your country the is. Department of defense has a four year medical school program at the f. Edward Hebert school of Medicine. Your tuition and books will be free. Upon entering All medical students will be commissioned As officers ensigns or second lieutenants and will draw full pay and benefits while in school. After graduation students receive the . Degree and a promotion to Captain or lieutenant. In Exchange for their medical education students must serve seven years in the army Navy air Force or the is. Public health service. The purpose of this medical school located in be Thesda md., is to prepare these Young men and women for their global Mission As military physicians with a special emphasis on emergency trauma Medicine. Fewer than 1 percent of those who enter this program fall to graduate for academic reasons and there is virtually no incidence of stress related dropout about a third of the enrollees Are married. Some newlyweds have enrolled in this remarkable school. Others have met their mates in the classrooms and married while students. During the fourth year of study students can take some courses abroad and study submarine Medicine in Australia internal Medicine in London and contagious diseases in Africa. The opportunities for broadening one s horizons As a student Are endless. Anyone who would like More information should write to office of admissions uniformed sen ices University of the health sciences 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda my. 20814-4799. Is. Drop me a line and let me know How you like it dear Ann Landers i just saw Phil Donahue s show and it really opened my eyes. It was As if some greater Power made me turn on the to at that very moment. I am 2-1 and have always wanted to be a Model. My parents Don t have much Money but they would make any sacrifice to help me. Yesterday i went to a modelling Agency and applied for a Job. I was told it would Cost s1,200 to enrol in their school and that after graduation they would place me. 1 was also told 1 needed photographs that would Cost $500. On the to show was Christie Brinkley a top Model. She said she never knew a Model who got a Job from an Agency and the pictures were a waste of Money. I was shocked. What do you say. Ann Landers Providence . Dear . I say Christie Brinkley should know what she s talk ing about. Dear Ann Landers every member of the family should practice report ing a House fire. A typical Call phoned in to the station sounds like this help Send the fire trucks where s the fire at our House if this sounds ridiculous let me assure you that it is not. In emergency situations the brain often cuts out and automatic Pilot takes Over. It pays to think ahead and rehearse what you re going to say. Tell your read ers. . . You did and i thank you. Los Angeles times syndicated columnist Lsnders welcomes your letters. You on Wale to her in Cere of tin Slars and stripes. Apo 09211. . Forces letters says fake Viet vet May be one of Many 1 was fascinated by your recent a Story about the fraudulent head of the Vietnam veterans group sex Leader of Vietnam vets groups never got overseas. Most intriguing however was the collateral Dis Cussion about the broader Issue of Vietnam Veteran impostors who were never in the service at All men who were in the service but never got to Vietnam or men who were in Vietnam but saw nary a shot in anger. I have Long suspected that the numbers of such peo ple were significant. I have run across too Many people who Tell compelling stories of their Vietnam War serv ice but with curious inaccuracies or anachronisms. One Guy was with the first cavalry Way Down in the Mekong Delta another spent a year As an army e-5 helicopter Pilot another said his personal weapon was a  the end of every War brings out battalions of sex Post Facto participants who successfully avoided hostilities but now find it convenient and  to create an entire new history and sometimes an entire new Persona that was actively involved in the horrors of the recent combat. However i wonder if there was t something about Vietnam that seems to have brought out More of these people than usual. The Vietnam War was surreal exhilarating lightning fast and Fla Shily erotic in a Way that few wars have Ever been. Making up a Story about going out on night patrols wearing Black bandanas armed Only with bayonets provides both the Teller and the listener with far More entertainment than one told 40 years earlier about digging Foxholes in Italy. Yet Vietnam was Only after All just another War. For All of its real or imagined horrors it was no More or less unpleasant no More or less hideous and no More or less stressful than any of its predecessors. Nor have its real or imagined participants been treated any bet Ter or worse than their real or imagined fathers or grandfathers. Yes even the complaint about no parades upon return is baseless most Wei and Wii vets still Haven t seen a Parade to this Day Max Hastings the British journalist and historian Calls it an absurd conceit for Vietnam vets to believe that they have suffered worse than soldiers in other conflicts. I agree. The Vietnam vet is certainly not inferior to veterans of other fights. However he certainly cannot Tell the rangers who climbed up the Cliffs of Pointe do hoc under direct German fire in nor Mandy that they Don t know the meaning of fear. He cannot assert to the korean vets who marched out of the chosen Reservoir that they have never heard of physical hardships or never served under incompetent officers. What angers me is that the Joe Testas of this world arc giving an entire generation a bad name. The Over whelming majority of Vietnam veterans even com Bat veterans arc perfectly sane Normal rational and pleasant people or at least no less so than their fathers who fought at Normandy Koto i chateau Thierry anti Tam and Bunker Hill. They do not sleep with .45s under their pillows mine is in my closet do not break into tears watching tour of duty High Way to heaven is the one that makes me reach for the hankies and do not indulge in Wanton senseless crime mine is not paying taxes that makes sense. The Well deserved exposure of Joe Testa s fraud comes Only a few weeks after the death of one of Viet Nam s real heroes Nick Rowe the army colonel assassinated in the Philippines. Row saw enough horror and suffered enough privation to justify several life times of self pity. Yet he came right Back on Active duly to help the army learn from what he had gone through. Duty meant More to him than pity and Honor More than horror. When you think of Vietnam vets dear readers think of the Nick rows of this world and not the Joe Tuslas. Michael Corum Wiesbaden West Germany protests rodeos As indecent inhumane every upright Between graft Wohr and Vilsick car Ries a poster. The Scenic View has been trashed in True american style. The posters All of them advertise a Rodeo. While the onslaught of posters afflicts the eyes the Content of the poster attacks Basic decency. A Rodeo like bullfighting cockfighting and dog fights provides pleasure in proportion to the pain inflicted. Pain measures the pleasure in the audience. The greatest pain is the animal s helplessness in the face of human brutality. 1 protest the presence of a Rodeo As a Media of entertainment just As 1 protest every form of human entertainment at the expense of another s life which has no option of participation. I Only regret that there arc not enough persons to make an effective protest that would cancel this kind of entertainment All together. Name withheld Grafe Wohr West Germany 87th inf div reunion set wants smoker pay plan the 45th anniversary of the 87lh in div s participation in the Balta Olum bulge Wilt be remembered at to 40m annual reunion of the 87th Golden Acorn in dry of world wars i and ii u be a std at the Wood told Hilton and towers in Arlington Heights ill. On Sopt 20-24. For addition information Contact Gladwin Pascazio 2374 n. Dundee it Highland. Mich. 40031 or Telephone 313 887-9005 pen pals by name in your Pun a column i Moonry Reading books and Lute Ieng to  229 caste lanes  Negr to Occidental pleas Preth my name in your pan pm column i so 11 years Oil and i the to twin ploy  c.9. Mary Ann actuate450-a san Jose Bab Watan   . Pymm Prmt few Narrio Enyou pen pal column i am a 23 year of roman Ciff Vole Roma Tam . National he school cat Travi a Yot oct do real 1 would like to submit a suggestion and have you pass it on to the appropriate Agency for consideration working for a German employer i have no Access to the suggestion award program. My idea is to adjust military tobacco prices in Europe to local Economy Levels with the difference going to the american cancer society lung association or a cancer awards. The tobacco products would technically still be tax free Black marketing would be pre vented and the Burden of providing Money for lung cancer research and treatment would be placed directly on the voluntary victims Magdalena Frasure a Fertal West Germany All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be signed. We a not read unsigned letters but we will withhold your name on request and protect your privacy All letters Are subject to editing. European edition col Jeffrey m. Cook us commander editor in cruel it col Suzanne a Phillips. Usan Deputy commenter editor in Chloel Marie Kominicki Mert Proctor Deane 8. Mcdermott production manage managing editor circulation manager this newspaper it to authorized in Octal publication Lor Mombert of the no Liuro services oversees. Contents of the surs end stripes Ere not necessarily the Ohi Clel views of. Or endorsed by. The . Government the department of Welense or the . European commend. 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