European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday january 4, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Book sees Wii through Young eyes Washington a one Little girl dreamed night after night that Adolf Hitler was smashing her hands. Another got hysterical saying goodbye to her father at the train station because she believed she would lose him. Millions of americans who were Chil Dren during world War ii still have vivid memories of their fear and bewilderment the terror inspired by. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on dec. 7,1941, and the confusion As relatives suddenly left new Book daddy s gone to War the second world War in the lives of America s children recalls the effect of the War on the youngest americans who experienced it. Author William a Tuttle jr., a history professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence knows How it Felt to be a Home front child. He was one. All Over the country children played War hid under their desks in air raid drills and participated in scrap collections and Victory gardens. Tuttle s Book is filled with their Mem ories he wrote to newspapers All Over the country asking wartime children to share them. Letters poured in sometimes As Many As 50 a Day. In All he heard from More than 2,500 people some several times. A lot of them wrote me that this was their therapy. They really had t touched these feelings in All those years Tuttle said. A couple of people could t finish their letters. Others said i m really glad i did finish. It s time that i faced these memories " for Many of the children now mostly in their 50s the War years were unsettling. Fathers and Brothers were drafted. Families moved to military Camps or factories gearing up for wartime production. Mothers headed to the workplace for the first time. The War also shaped the beliefs and later lives of Many of the children who experienced it Tuttle said. For some the Vietnam War sorely tested world War ii patriotism. Others joined the civil rights movement because of memories of the nazis. Some took a different message from the War years from racism against the japanese for in stance and grew More and More into a Grant. I think the important thing is that these messages were powerful and they stayed with people Tuttle said. He was 5 when his father left Home to do his duty As Art army surgeon. In his father s absence he was raided by a House hold of women. War was All around him he said. So much of my Grade school Days were consumed by wartime activities and at Home i played War games from Dawn till dusk he said. You took on a new identity. You weren t a Cowboy anymore. You were an american Vermont lures Gay skiers shunning Colorado Montpelier it. A a Gay ski weekend at one major Vermont Mountain and Vermont s distinction As the Only major ski state with a Gay rights Law Are combining to make it a Gay Friendly Winter vacation spot. .7. if you were to choose a ski destination based solely on its politics Vermont would win with ski poles Down said the december Issue of out and about a travel publication for Gays and lesbians. Annual Gay weekends have been offered for the last four years at mount Snow in West Dover and follow ing last Winter s Gay Boycott of Colorado Over its anti Gay rights referendum Vermont s popularity among homosexuals might be on the Rise. In terms of special groups such As Gays and lesbians Vermont has a special Appeal said Andrew Sil ver spokesman for the Southern Vermont ski area. Vermont has taken on a Liberal Detroit businessman John Cavallaro began organizing the mount Snow weekends As a cheaper alternative to skiing in the West. Now he has another Angle. I decided to be a Little bit More aggressive because of amendment 2," said Cavallaro referring to the col Orado referendum which passed last year and forbade the enactment of any local Law that protected homosexuals civil rights. A state court declared the Law unconstitutional but the state planned an Appeal. Tom Meyer of the Vermont ski areas association shrugged off the suggestion that some of mount Snow s More conservative customers might be scared off. Not in this Day and age. When you Are close to any major metropolitan area the education and acceptance level has increased Meyer said. The Vermont legislature passed a Gay rights Law in1992, and Many businesses in the state embrace the Label Gay Vermont is a Gay Friendly state More so than new Hampshire or Maine. Gay people can feel some what comfortable travelling in Vermont said Richard Pugliese proprietor of the Fitch Hill inn in Hyde Park near the Stowe ski resort. The search by out and about for a Friendly place for homosexuals to take a ski vacation was partially a re dolphins feared trapped reportedly spotted at sea sea Bright . A Hopes that dolphins last seen in an ice bound River Inlet had made their Way to the sea brightened with unofficial re ports that the animals were spotted offshore. A fishing boat Captain Marine police consider a reliable source reported seeing three bottle nose dolphins saturday off Sandy Hook officer Ken Minnes said. That sighting followed a report of three bottle nose dolphins in that Vicinity the Day before. The coast guard Marine police and volunteers from the Marine mammal stranding Center spent three Days last week trying to Herd the dolphins from the ice covered Shrewsbury River to the Atlantic Ocean. The place in the River where the dolphins got stuck had iced Over wednesday night. Rescuers feared the dolphins had suffocated under the ice. Proprietor Richard Pugliese stands in front of his Gay Friendly Fitch Hill inn near Vermont s Stowe ski resort. Spouse to Colorado s passage of the anti Gay rights measure. Before the referendum the nation s Premier ski event for Gays and lesbians was a week every Winter at Aspen colo., said Billy Kolber the editor of out and about. Then the Gay travel Boycott began and the trip was out. In the meantime four or five other ski weeks have spontaneously generated Many of which Are promoting themselves As More politically Correct than Colorado. We thought that was a bit misleading Kolber said. If you really want to be politically Correct forget Colorado and Utah. Come to Vermont Kolber said because Vermont is the Only major ski state with a Gay rights Law. Cavallaro who runs a company called Eclectic excursions said most of his customers for the mount Snow weekend come from new York and Boston but he has received inquiries from All Over the East. He expects about 100 people for this year s event scheduled for feb. 26 and 27. The feeling that i got at mount Snow was that we were very Welcome there Cavallaro said. They welcomed our business our group and i Felt welcomed As an writer says . Considered plan to blast Saddam s copter in 1990 new York a military intelligence officials plotted to kill Saddam Hussein As the iraqi Leader travelled from Baghdad to Kuwait in the months before the persian Gulf War a new Book says. The plan called for army Delta or Navy Seal team-6 commandos to shoot Down Saddam s helicopter with shoulder fired stinger missiles after spy satellites determined he had boarded the aircraft according to the commandos the inside Story of America s soldiers. Saddam was considered i Vul Saddam Merable in Baghdad Newsweek defense correspondent Douglas c. Waller wrote. But once a month Saddam travelled to Kuwait usually by helicopter from Baghdad to Basra then by motor Home to the City of Kuwait Waller said. An outline of the plan was ready by late october 1990, but it was quashed the next month Waller wrote. The War began in january 1991. At the time . Army Gen. Colin l. Powell chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff who has since retired and defense Secretary Dick Cheney were intrigued by the idea of some Type of american Force targeting sad dam Waller wrote in an excerpt published in the Jan. 10 Issue of Newsweek. But . Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf com Mander of operations desert shield and desert storm thought the scheme was harebrained Waller wrote. Schwarzkopf has also retired. The commando team might be compromised. Then he would have to Send in a huge Force to Rescue them Waller wrote
