chester county 50plus senior news june 2014

A look at past 50plus EXPOs gives a picture of what you’ll find this year!

A Salute to Our

Veterans of D-Day

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Men’s Health

Resources

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Inside:

By Christianne Rupp

If you’re a baby boomer, a senior, or a caregiver, you won’t want to missthe 11th annual Chester County 50plus EXPO, which will be held on June 10,from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Church Farm School in Exton.

This is a one-day event that is all about you and what is on your mind.More than 80 exhibitors will be on hand. With plenty of room to move inthe aisles, you can chat with representatives to see how their product orservice can help you live a happy, healthy life.

Would you love to transform a room in your home from ho-hum to wow?Talk to an interior decorator who can not only give you some great ideas, butcan also help you design the room.

Thinking about making renovations in your home so you or a loved onecan age in place? Home modification companies will be glad to share ideas.

Have some health concerns you’d like more information about? You’re sureto find knowledgeable representatives that can provide valuable informationon a wide variety of issues.

On stage this year, we’ll be featuring not only entertainment, but alsodemonstrations. You’ll love watching and hearing Matt Macis as he delightshis audience with music, hilarious comedy, memorable song-and-danceroutines, and more!

Lori Rossi of Awakening Wellness Yoga – Qigong & Healing Arts Studiowill show yoga poses that will work your whole body, along with creating apeaceful mind and uplifted spirit. You’ll be invited to join in to see how easy

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In one corner is the undefeatedreigning champion, Father Time. Inthe other corner is the challenger,

Our Good Looks. You know how thisfight will end. The question is: Howmany rounds will it last, and which willbe the decisive round?

Good looks have advantages in thefirst two trimesters of an aged life.When we enter our senior years, looksthat may arouse interests from theopposite sex typically have almostentirely vanished. Who cares? By thattime, our primary objectives are to feelgood and look good, forsaking any hopeof good looks.

Eleanor Roosevelt was no eye-catching beauty. She recognized thevalue of our overall appearance this way:“Beautiful young people,” she said, “areaccidents of nature, but beautiful oldpeople are works of art.”

Maybe we aren’t“works of art” in theclassic sense. But ifwe have a twinkle inour eyes and a smileon our face, we canlook good withoutbeing good looking.

Once our goodlooks begin to vanish,we have otherresources to display:charm, kindness,knowledge, integrity,humor, and, asEleanor Roosevelt hasshown, a measure ofwisdom. They are allpart of looking good.

There were timesAbraham Lincolndepended on self-

deprecating humorwhen campaigning forelection. HenryVillard, a journalistwho covered theLincoln-Douglasdebates, wroteLincoln had a “gawkyfigure, an odd-featured, wrinkled,inexpressive, andaltogether uncomelyface.”

When Stephan A.Douglas calledLincoln “two-faced,”Lincoln replied: “Ileave it to theaudience. If I hadanother face, do youthink I would wearthis one?”

This retort scored “Father Abraham,”as he was called by those who saw inhim a biblical image, election pointsthat otherwise may have been deniedhim because of his lack of good looks.

Comic Jimmy Durante and physicistAlbert Einstein were not handsome. Yetpeople found them appealing becausetheir appearance matched the public’simage—expectations for the roles eachprominently held in life. Their lookswere as if each was an actor supplied bya Hollywood studio’s department ofcentral casting.

Einstein, despite his brilliance, couldnot grasp his public popularity. Hewondered why “no one understands mebut they like me anyway. I don’tunderstand it.”

Our faces have to be compatible withthe stereotypical image the public has ofcertain professions. Would Jimmy

Good Looks and Looking Good

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Family Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry1646 West Chester Pike, Suite 1,West Chester(484) 551-3006

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Central PA Poison Center(800) 521-6110

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Durante look credible as a world-renowned scientist and would AlbertEinstein find popular support as acomedian?

Would a movie entitled Strange LoveAffair have a chance as a box-officesuccess if it starred “Groucho” Marx andElizabeth Taylor? Our looks, good ornot, support or limit us in our destinedroles in life.

Richard Nixon is said to have lostvoter appeal in his 1960 televised debatewith presidential candidate JackKennedy. It was not due to Nixon’sdiscussion of the issues, which hehandled quite well. He lost appealbecause of his whisker stubble,commonly called a “five o’clockshadow” in the jargon of the 1960s. Tosome, the stubble made him look un-presidential, somewhat malevolent.

Roles in life are determined largely bymore than just our bodies. It is ourimage in its entirety, including ourclothing style down to the type ofeyeglasses we wear. Doesn’t a Franciscanmonk receive more public reverencewhen garbed in a brown robe, or isn’t adoctor given more credibility whenwearing a white medical jacket? Imaginethem both in t-shirts and jeans.

As we enter our senior years, weshould give more attention to anappropriate dress style. It makes us feelbetter and raises the favorabilityquotient for how we are perceived byothers.

Physical attractiveness need not belimited entirely to the young. Severalfamed movie stars retained a visageappeal—if not their sex appeal—as theyturned elderly. Jimmy Stewart, Cary

Grant, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda,Mary Martin, Myrna Loy, BarbaraStanwyck, and Greer Garson are amongthem. They were graced with the beautyof dignity, experience, and credibilitydespite their advancing years.

Seniors are past the age when theyindulge their vanities in cosmeticmakeovers, such as Botox injections,breast implants, liposuction, and otherbeautification procedures. Thesetemporary, time-reversing treatmentstypically are for those entering their 40s.Undergoing medical cosmetology is notaging gracefully; it is grasping to retainvanishing good looks rather thanrefining the emerging persona whosefocus should be on looking good.

What happens to the body of a manwith a muscle-bound torso once hereaches the fifth decade of life and

beyond? Based on photos of ArnoldSchwarzenegger in swimming trunks,his Mr. Universe physique has badlydeteriorated. It takes most bodybuilderstwo hours a day, six days a week, ofweightlifting to look like a modernGoliath.

After the age of 50 we lose about 3percent of our lean body mass perdecade, most of which is muscle. Ittakes more time and energy than mostof us are able to dedicate to overcomethat loss. It is a vainglorious mission.

Walt Sonneville, a retired market-researchanalyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth:The Higher-Valued Opinion of a SeniorCitizen and A Musing Moment: MeditativeEssays on Life and Learning, books ofpersonal-opinion essays, free of partisan andsectarian viewpoints. Contact him [email protected].


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A Salute to Our Veterans of D-Day

In WorldWar II, 70years ago thismonth, onJune 6, 1944,some 156,000American,British, andCanadian

soldiers landed on five beachesalong a 50-mile stretch of theheavily fortified cost of France.

It was called D-Day, and thegigantic assault was the first stepin the liberation of Europe fromthe hands of German troops. Theworld had never seen such amassive amphibious assault. Andmany military men from CentralPennsylvania were part of theforce that made it happen. This ishow a few remember it:

Eston White says he will neverforget how bad the weather was.When you went over the side of themother transport, the swells were sohigh that you could easily findyourself falling 4 feet as you let go ofthe cargo net to enter the landingcraft that had been ready to step intoa moment before.

He says, “I was one of 30 menaboard the Higgins boat that took usthe 12,000 yards to the beach, and Iwas the only one who didn’t getviolently sick aboard the pitchingboat. Men were so sick they wereheaving everywhere, and they wereglad to see land even though theywere being machine-gunned.”

Dick Winters was aparatrooper who was dropped at1:15 a.m. on D-Day, 8 milesfrom the intended drop zone.The C-47 plane carrying him,dodging heavy flak, dove so fastthat, when he exited the plane,the wind tore away his jump packwith his rifle, grenades—everything but the trench knifesecured in his boot.

Yet he and seven other menwho joined him found their wayto the causeway that our GIswould use to get off Utah Beach.Facing 55 Germans who mannedfour 105s lobbing shells at ourtroops, they were able to destroy allfour guns and free our tanks torumble from the beach.

Paul Miller was a paratroopermedic who headed for France in themiddle of the night.

He says, “Actually, I felt no fearuntil the bullets began to tearthrough the fuselage of the C-47.Then, with exploding ack-ack andburning planes, it was like the mostawesome fireworks display you eversaw.”

The plan was to bail out at 800feet, but because of the evasiontactics of the plane, it was more like300 feet.

“You jumped, the parachutedeployed, and you were on theground,” Miller says.

Paul Winters was in the first waveto hit Omaha Beach.

He says, “It was chaos. Very fewof us were dropped off where wewere supposed to be. We had toadvance over open beach to a far seawall that would give us some cover

from the machine-gun fire andmortar and artillery shells beingthrown at us. Everyone was justtrying to stay alive.

“We were off the beach in fivehours, but I didn’t realize how badit really was until I went back thenext day for medical supplies andsaw all the bodies bobbing in thewater and corpses everywhere onthe beach, many of them stackedlike cordwood.”

Richard Meck made the landingon Omaha Beach.

He says, “It was terrifying. Wewere being hit with shells andmachine-gun fire constantly. Men

were being killed all around me. Ourorders were not to stop for anybody,just wade as fast as we could and getout of the water, cross the beach, andget to the sea wall, where theGerman guns couldn’t swivel downto kill you. Bodies were littering thebeach and bobbing in the surf. It wasa sight I’ve never been able toforget.”

Otis Harrison says, “The numberof ships was simply unbelievable. Itseemed like you could just walk fromship to ship, there were so many ofthem. LSTs loaded with troops were

being blown up all around us. “The Germans had placed

‘hedgehogs’ all along the approachto the beach. They were steel railsthat would snare LSTs as the tidereceded and leave them sittingducks. Many men tried to jump offand wade in, only to be weigheddown by all their gear and sink totheir deaths. It was hell on earth.”

There are few such vets alivetoday, and every day there arefewer. We have only the memory ofmost of them. But what memoriesthey are, and we can best honorthem by never forgetting thesacrifices they made for our

country, which they served sowillingly and so well.

Photos courtesy of U.S. NationalArchives and Records Administration.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber inEurope in World War II.

By ColonelRobert Wilcox

The beachhead is secure, but the price washigh. A Coast Guard combat photographer

came upon this monument to a deadAmerican soldier somewhere on the shell-

blasted shore of Normandy.

American soldiers, hardened and ready,lounge under full fighting equipment on

the deck of a Coast Guard assault.


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The Beauty in Nature

Clyde McMillan-Gamber

Cold-blooded amphibians areactive in summer’s warmth.Some people enjoy hearing

spring peepers peep and American toadstrill in the shallows of ponds andwetlands during April and the twang ofgreen frogs and bellow of bull frogs alongpond edges. Meanwhile salamanders areactive under stones in streams or underleaves and logs on woodland floors,depending on the species.

Amphibian means two lives: one inwater and the other on land. But allamphibians need to be at least moist atall times to stay alive, and most spawn inwater where their fish-like larvae hatchand develop legs and lungs for life onland, where they are all carnivores.

Some amphibians, including a fewspecies in the Middle Atlantic States,developed features that allowed them topioneer niches that are drier than their

relatives can tolerate. Those pioneers alsoreduced competition for space and foodwith their relatives by using niches thosecousins can’t.

Frogs’ skins need to be moist to allowthe frogs toexchangeoxygen andcarbondioxidethrough theirskins. Frogs,therefore, livealong water’sedges.

Americantoads andcommontoads havebumpy skins that taste bad to predatorsand retain body fluids. Toads travel overwoodland floors and shaded fields during

the day some distance from water,retiring at times in moist, cool shadeunder fallen leaves or cracks in soil underleafy crops.

Red-backed and slimy salamanderslive underlogs and rockson woodlandfloors. Theserelated, lung-less species are5 inches longand exchangegases throughtheir dampskins. Bothspeciessecrete anoxious

substance from their skins that protectthem from predators and keep their skinsmoist.

Red-backs have two color phases. Oneis gray all over and the other has a redstripe on top. The chunkier slimys areblack with white speckling. Neitherspecies spawns in water as mostamphibians do.

Each female red-back and slimy hangsa cluster of four to 12 eggs under a log orrock, which are moist places onwoodland floors. The youngsters’ aquaticstage is in their eggs. They hatch 1 inchlong and resemble their parents.

Geographic isolation causes newspecies. Red-backed and slimysalamanders confined to wood lotssurrounded by lawns, fields, and roadscan’t travel to other woods. A geneticquirk in an individual in isolated woodswill be passed to its relatives, perhapscreating a new species.

Nature is always changing. Newspecies can appear any time.

American toad

Amphibians Pioneering Drier Land


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By John Johnston

This month I’d like to share somenews about Social Securitydisability benefits for veterans

with disabilities: a new expediteddisability process.

We believe it is important to recognizethose who currently serve in the militaryas well as those injured in the line ofduty and consider it an honor and a dutyto serve them. Whether the injury isphysical or mental, getting a decisionabout Social Security disability benefitsfrom your government shouldn’t add tothe problems faced by the injured.

Carolyn W. Colvin, actingcommissioner of Social Security, recently

unveiled a newinitiative toexpeditedisabilityapplicationsfrom veteranswith aDepartment ofVeteransAffairs (VA)disabilitycompensationrating of 100percentpermanent andtotal (P&T).

Under the new process, Social Securitywill treat these veterans’ applications as

highpriority andissueexpediteddecisions,similar tothe way wecurrentlyhandledisabilityclaims fromwoundedwarriors.

“Ourveterans

have sacrificed so much for our countryand it is only right that we ensure theyhave timely access to the disability

benefits they may be eligible for anddeserve,” said Colvin.

Learn more about the new expeditedprocess for veterans at www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/2014/expedited-dib-process2-pr.html.

Read about this new service atwww.socialsecurity.gov/pgm/disability-pt.htm.

Also, you’ll want to visit ourWounded Warriors page atwww.socialsecurity.gov/woundedwarriors.There you’ll find informative webinars, aDisability Planner, an overview of ourdisability programs and the convenientonline disability application. John Johnston is a Social Security publicaffairs specialist.

Faster Benefit Decisions for Veterans

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One of the great pleasures of mybeing a grandparent is readingto my 3-month-old

granddaughter and watching her eyesclose and open, fluttering, as sheeventually goes to sleep.

It’s a wonderfulexperience—I’mbonding with mygranddaughter. Andif she doesn’t fallasleep and startscrying, I can alwaysturn the chore over tomy daughter andquickly leave theroom.

My daughter, Ann,had a bunch of books to choose from.My granddaughter, Summer, can’t reallyunderstand what I’m reading yet (eventhough I’m sure she’s a genius), but if thebook interests me, I can do a better jobof acting out the parts as I read.

The first series of books I tried wereabout characters named Mr. Know-It-All,Mr. Grumpy, and Mrs. Uppity. I’m sureit was well written, but I quickly becameMr. Bored.

I then started reading another book, aclassic called The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

It was definitely well written andinformative, but by the third time I readit, I got the point—the caterpillar wasvery hungry.

The next time I went to Ann’s condo,I brought along an old book that I had

read to her when shewas about 10 yearsold. OK, Summerwas only 3 monthsold, but, like I said,she’s a genius.

Actually, I wasreading this booklargely for my ownenjoyment. Itbrought backmemories of when I

originally read it to Ann. The book isBeanpole, and it’s about a girl who wasthe tallest student in her junior highschool.

I started reading and came to a sectionabout Grandma Woo Woo. Iremembered that about 20 years ago, Istopped reading and told Ann of apersonal experience I had with someonenicknamed Woo Woo. I was a campcounselor and there was anothercounselor there, a very pompous 19-year-old named Warren.

He was very proud that the youngcampers nicknamed him Uncle WooWoo. He thought it showed everyonehow popular he was. That is, until heheard one of the young campers say he

had to go make a woo woo. I continued reading to Summer. I got

caught up with all the troubles this tallgirl had in school. Because of her height,

Older But Not Wiser

Sy Rosen

Reading to Summer


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Dear Savvy Senior,Any suggestions on how can I get my 55-

year-old husband to see a doctor? He’s gotsome personal health issues he needs toaddress, but he’s stubborn and embarrassedand keeps putting it off. – Nagging Nancy

Dear Nancy,When it comes to their health, many

men take the John Wayne approach.They tough it out! That’s one of thereasons men die more than five yearsyounger than women.

Here are some facts and resources thatmay help you motivate your husband.

The FactsIn every stage of life—from infancy to

the teen years to middle age—men (onaverage) are 40 percent more likely to getsick and die than women. (Current lifeexpectancy for a man in the U.S. is 75.6versus 80.8 for a woman.)

Why? The reasons are complex;however, most experts agree that biology,such as the different ways men andwomen react to stress, likely plays a role.

And men, taught since boyhood to bestoic in the face of pain, often are theirown worst enemy, avoiding doctors andengaging in risky health behaviors likeexcessive alcohol consumption,unhealthy eating habits, reckless driving,and overexposure to sun, which allthreaten health.

Men’s health issues also get less publicattention and funding at a time whenwomen’s health concerns (like breast

cancer) are in thenationalspotlight.

What to DoDoctors say

that by payingattention to just afew key areas likeblood pressure,cholesterol, waistsize, and sexualfunction (whichcan be an earlyindicator of heartdisease), men canmake dramaticimprovements fortheir overallhealth.

If you’rehaving a difficulttime getting your husband to see adoctor, try motivating him with relevanthealth information, including treatmentoptions, along with the consequences ofdoing nothing.

The Web is a good place to start, witha growing number of user-friendlyresources dedicated to men’s healthissues. Here are some good ones tocheck:

Mayo Clinic: Provides a special men’shealth section (www.mayoclinic.com/health/mens-health/MY00394) that offersinformation on prostate health, sexualhealth, and diseases, including amultimedia section.

Mayo expertsoffer up guidanceon issues rangingfrom maledepression to thedangers of bellyfat, along withscreenings andself-assessmentquizzes.

WebMD: Atmen.webmd.com,you find a widevariety ofinformation andvideos on issuesranging from hairloss and plasticsurgery for mento sex andintimacy.

It also provides information ondiseases and conditions, an interactivesymptom checker, discussion boards onexercise and fitness, and support groupson weight loss and prostate cancer.

MedlinePlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menshealth.html): Thiscomprehensive health site links users tomen’s health resources from the NationalLibrary of Medicine, National Institutesof Health, Centers for Disease Control,and other government and health-relatedorganizations.

It provides easy-to-find informationon hundreds of diseases and conditions,along with extensive information on

medications and links to thousands ofclinical trials.

It also offers a senior-specific healthsite (nihseniorhealth.gov) that makes age-related health information easy to get.

Prostate Cancer Foundation(www.prostatecancerfoundation.org):Provides comprehensive information onrisk factors, detection and screening,diagnosis and treatment, questions to askthe doctor, and guidelines on how to livewith the disease.

Men and Depression (www.menanddepression.nimh.nih.gov): Part of theNational Institute of Mental Health, thissite offers personal stories from mensuffering from depression as well as thesigns and symptoms, treatment, andwhen and how to seek help.

FamilyDoctor.org (www.familydoctor.org/men.xml): The AmericanAcademy of Family Physicians’consumer-friendly site allows users tosearch by symptoms for possiblediagnosis, suggestions for self-care, andwhen it might be necessary to see adoctor.

It also offers help finding a familydoctor by zip code, a body mass indexcalculator, and sections on subjectsranging from prostate health to athlete’sfoot.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to theNBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org

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Men’s Health Weekis June 9–15

Dear Mark: I enjoy your column verymuch, mostly because you spent a lotof time on the inside. Here is myquestion. I was wondering if you haveever given away money to a player thatdid not deserve it. A dealer on ablackjack game once claimed it neverhappens, and yet, he overpaid me twicein two hours. I was wondering if youcould share your thoughts on this.– Ralph I.

Have I, Ralph, ever given away moneyto a player who didn’t deserve it? Oh,gosh yes! I have made my fair share ofblunders, once involving a $7,000overpayment. Aided by the eye-in-the-sky, the casino caught it and recoupedtheir seven grand. Still, I received a non-paid week on the streets. A few morebloopers to come below.

First off, dealers can and do makemistakes. Whoever told you otherwise isfull of it. True, most dealers get quiteskillful at reading the patterns on thecards with proficiency. So countingerrors, with experience, become rare.

But these guys and gals deal morethan a half million hands a year, so theywill make unpremeditated errors over thecourse of that time, both on the players’credit and debit sides of the ledger.

Casino management is supposed to beon the lookout for dealers making payingerrors, and it is their responsibility tocorrect these transgressions. It is “their”job to monitor “their” pit and make surethat “their” dealers are following the rightdealing protocols and paying off betscorrectly, not yours.

So, Ralph, you got away with a couple

freebies. That’sfine. From aretired blackjackdealer’sperspective, I wasalwaysappreciative ofthe player whocorrected my paymistakes andhanded back themoney. I stillplay by thoseprincipled rules to this day.

Now, those two dillies I promised.I taught myself blackjack by pitching

cards into a hat, and practiced shuffling,dealing, and the pay and take on anironing board. On my first shift, I madethe dimwitted decision that if you splitaces and got two face cards, you just gotyourself two blackjacks, so I paidaccordingly.

I was actually paying this unmeritedroyalty on split aces for most of my firstshift until an old-time pit boss noticedmy generosity and corrected me at thebreak. Some joints might have sent mepacking, but perchance he thought that Ihad the potential to do the job a chimpcould do.

The other error was where I wittinglyover or underpaid a player.

Dealing 10-cent roulette in downtownReno, we would get a lot of Chineseplayers via a charter bus service out ofSan Francisco who would jam up a gamewith chips as nothing you could everimagine. As eight is the most prosperousof numbers in Chinese culture, it isconsidered a highly lucky number and is

worked into dailylife as much aspossible.

The roulettetable was onesuch place, times10. It was alwaysmathematicallyinteresting whena kazillion chipswould appear onthe eight from allthe corners, split

possibilities, and straight-up betstowering what seemed like a foot high.

This required drastic measures toavoid a possible mathematicalmisadventure, or my job, so I once calledover a pit boss — actually it was a shiftmanager passing through the pit — andin order to not look too much like a sap,I asked what he thought a particularpayoff was.

Pretending to know the correct payoff,he said, “Send out a dozen stacks, plusput a $5 chip and a 50-cent piece on thetop.”

I paid the bet as instructed. Althougha patented move by another, it’s not a bad“go-to” action when this frazzled dealer of10 minds couldn’t figure out a ginormouspayout. No harm, no foul, is what hefigured; plus, we always seemed to getback all the chips in the end anyway.

Gambling Wisdom of the Week: “Icheat my boys every chance I get. I wantto make ’em sharp.” — William AveryRockefeller (c. 1850), John D.’s father

Mark Pilarski is a recognized authority oncasino gambling, having survived 18 years inthe casino trenches. Pilarski is the creator ofthe bestselling, award-winning audio bookseries on casino gambling, Hooked onWinning. www.markpilarski.com


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she was kind of an outcast and given thenickname of Beanpole. I could relatebecause I had (and still have) a largenose, and the kids nicknamed me Nose(they weren’t very creative).

Anyway, Ann came into the room andsat next to me as I was reading toSummer. It was an unbelievableexperience. I was reading to mygranddaughter while also thinking aboutthe first time I read Beanpole to my

daughter. I got really caught up in the story,

reading it with great enthusiasm, whenAnn put her arm on my shoulder. Ithought she was giving me a signal abouthow great I was doing, but actually shewas telling me to speak softer, thatSummer was getting tired.

And so I lowered my voice, andSummer eventually closed her eyes anddrifted off to sleep. It was a good day.

READING from page 9

When Jack Shearer enlisted inthe Navy in 1942, he had noidea his service would not be

on the water at all, but on land … andin a land unlike any he had ever heard ofbefore.

He got there despite somethingveterans commonly understood: Nevervolunteer for anything.

He was at Norfolk, Va., training foramphibious landings, when he saw aposter asking for volunteers for“prolonged and hazardous assignments”where the destination was unknown.That sounded like a challenge he’d like.So he volunteered.

He soon learned that the duty forwhich he had volunteered would takehim to China, under conditions hecouldn’t even imagine. He had trainedsix months at the Radio School inBedford Springs, Pa. So, apparently, his

new assignment would have somethingto do with radio. He’d have to wait to

find out.First, he was sent to San Pedro, Calif.

There he boarded a Liberty ship for a10-week trip across the Pacific, withstops in Tasmania and Ceylon (now SriLanka) before arriving at Calcutta, India,on New Year’s Eve.

There he boarded a C-47 for ahazardous flight over “The Hump,” theplane climbing to 17,000 feet to clear themountains. What was that like?

“Well,” he says, “it was plenty bumpy,and we had people using their ‘barf ’ bagsleft and right. I didn’t have one, and Icame awfully close to needing it, butsomehow I managed to get through it.”

When the plane landed inChongqing, China, Shearer and 12 othermen were assigned to an outpost campbordering the Gobi Desert on one sideand Inner Mongolia on the other,beyond the Great Wall of China andabout 40 miles west of the Japaneseforce’s westernmost outpost.

Called Camp 4, it was one of a dozencamps in China that were among thebest-kept secrets of the war. They wereprimarily weather stations createdthrough a pact with China called SACO(Sino-American CooperativeOrganization).

Camp 4 occupied a large, walledCatholic mission just outside the town ofShenpa (now Xamba) that was 800 milesnorth of Chongqing. The three residentsof the mission, a priest and two nuns,had been moved to smaller quarters forthe duration.

The camp was the northernmost ofthe SACO camps. Importantly, it was

400 miles north of Tokyo’s latitude andwas an excellent site for gathering radiointelligence and monitoring theweather upwind from Japan and thePhilippines.

Getting to the camp, however,would prove to be an experience. Ittook the men five entire months oftravel by ancient Chinese trucks fromheadquarters in Chongqing, 1,500miles to the south. The rickety Chinesetrucks were constantly breaking down.

“And,” Shearer says, “I oftenwondered if we would ever make it toour camp.”

How did everything work out, onceyou were there?

“It really didn’t,” Shearer laughs.“The temperature went from more than100 F in the summer to minus 30 F inthe winter. Sandstorms were common,and there was no running water. We gotour water from a well and had to boil itto make it potable.

“Our generators soon were beyondrepair, and all of us took turns crankingthe small hand generator to send ourseven daily radio contacts with radioChongqing and one with Peking (nowBeijing). We provided weatherinformation that was relayed to U.S.ships in the Pacific. That informationwas important to their planning assaultson Japan and the parts of Chinaoccupied by the Japanese.”

How was the food? “We lived off the land,” he says. “We

could buy chicken, eggs, and ‘yellow rice’locally. But you ate the vegetables atyour own peril. The locals fertilized withhuman waste, and eating the vegetablesthey grew produced lots of diarrhea.

“The worst problem, though, was thebugs. They were everywhere. There werecockroaches in our hair, lice in ourclothes, and bedbugs in our bedding.There was no way to get rid of them …they were always with us. That was truefor the whole two years I was there.”

Was there anything to see? “Nope … nothing. There were some

small villages, and we each had a horse.But, when you got there, it was just ascattering of huts with nothing to do orsee. So there was really no point ingoing.”

The two years in the camp seemed

He Spent 2 Years in ‘the Most DetachedDuty Station on the Face of the Earth’

Robert D. Wilcox

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Jack Shearer on the horse issued to himat his remote base in primitive China.

Radioman First ClassJohn R. “Jack” Shearer,

home from China in 1946.


like an eternity, but it finally passed.Shearer says one thing of interest aboutthe grim two years was that sufferingthrough it with him was a medical doctornamed Henry Heimlich, who later wonnational acclaim for developing theHeimlich maneuver that saves peoplewho are choking on food lodged in theirwindpipe.

Did the Chinese food help himdevelop the maneuver?

“It might well have,” Shearer agrees,with a grin.

When the war in the Pacific ended inAugust 1945, everybody but Shearer left.He stayed behind to finalize details withthe local Chinese officials fordeactivating the camp. He then traveled

to Shanghai to catch a ship to SanFrancisco, where he mustered out as aradioman first class after serving 42months in the Navy.

In 1994, the Republic of China, inTaiwan, gave him and his wife, June, anall-expense-paid, 10-day tour to Taiwanin recognition of his wartime service toChina.

At age 92, he now lives in CentralPennsylvania. And he says he will neverforget the endless days he spent deep inprimitive China in the “Rice PaddyNavy.”

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber inEurope in World War II.

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hen my husband, Bob, isunhappy, it breaks my heart.

So I did what mostconventional, predictable people do. Itook him to a Quantum Field Healingséance—oops, I mean session—to havehis energy fields balanced. Doesn’teverybody do that?

I called my friend, nationally notedhealer Marcia Sloane Heusted. She knewI was clueless about cockamamie—Imean alternative—therapies.

The night before the appointment, Idreamed we crept into Marcia’s dark,crypt-like dungeon. Walls were flankedby spider webs hanging like thick, wetropes. Tall, black candles oozed hot,blood-red liquid. There was the smell ofcentury-old monk robes and century-oldmonks.

Bob woke me. He doesn’t sleep wellwhen I scream.

“Cancel it, Bob. Marcia will levitateyou and make you speak in tongues—inYiddish!”

“Saralee, I’m not canceling.”

“You’ll bechanneling a JewishDorothy. You’llchant, ‘Latkes andblintzes and borscht.Oy vey!’”

That next day, wemet with Marcia.Her room wasbrilliantly lit withsunlight. She wasradiant andwelcoming, like myfavorite counselor atsummer camp. Sheoffered us tea.

“Don’t drink thatpotion, Bob,” Iwhispered. “You’lldie.”

Having no knowledge of Bob, muchless his depression of late, she asked himno questions.

I don’t know why I shielded myselffrom faith. When Marcia spoke oftrusting the universe, I remained distant.

Bob stretched outon her table. Ingentle flowingmotions, she movedher hands above hisbody, stopping attimes. I never askedwhat she was doing.I’ve known Marciafor 20 years. We trusteach otherunconditionally.

At the end, Bobslowly sat up. Hekept his eyes closed,feeling a newsensation of peace.

He said to Marcia,“When you look at

me, you see a different person thananyone else does. I feel more contentthan I have in years.” He cried when hesaid, “Something has changed.”

I felt an astonishing realization: A far-reaching healing had occurred.

And so, Bob is no longer burdened

with heavy sadness. Did the experiencechange him? Yes. How? I don’t know.Does that matter?

I believe that Marcia is an intuitive, aword she says with shyness. She has a giftI do not understand. But I saw a change.No doubt about it.

In that, I have complete faith.For months, Bob had stopped doing

the things he enjoyed. He lost interest ingardening, cooking, and taking photos ofour pets. Although he’s won 14 blueribbons at the county fair, he stoppedbaking.

But today the zinnias are displayingtheir colors. My email is full of newpictures of our dog and cats.

And this morning I awoke to theheavenly aroma of homemade zucchinibread.

Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationallysyndicated columnist. Her new book isCracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: StoriesFrom a Life Out of Balance. To find out more,visit www.saraleeperel.com or [email protected].

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