kitsap veterans life, july 25, 2014

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The WallA traveling version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is returning to Washington state

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Veteran- and military-related bills approved by the state Legislature and signed into law in 2014.

HB 2130: Veterans innovations program — The Defender’s Fund and the Competitive Grant Program are combined and referred to as the VIP. Sponsor: MacEwen. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

SHB 2171: Veterans, military personnel — Amends the Washington Service Members’ Civil Relief Act (WSCRA) to authorize a private right of action, or an action by the Washington Attorney General, to enforce the provisions of the WSCRA. Provides that the fed-eral Servicemembers Civil Relief Act applies in prop-er cases in Washington

courts, and a violation of the federal act is a violation of the WSCRA. Sponsor: Orwall. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

ESHB 2315: Suicide prevention — Requires certain professions to complete one-time train-ing in suicide assessment, treatment, and manage-ment. Requires the model list of training programs in suicide assessment, treat-ment, and management to be updated periodically and, when practicable, to contain content specific to veterans. Requires the development of a plan to create a pilot program for psychiatric consultation. Requires the development

of the Washington Plan for Suicide Prevention. Sponsor: Orwall. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

SHB 2363: Military member dependents — Allows dependents of military service members to retain eligibility for developmental disability services while living out of state due to military assignment. Sponsor: Muri. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

EHB 2397: Medal of Honor license plate — Allows registered owners who have been awarded the Medal of Honor to apply for Medal of Honor special license plates for use on up to three

motor vehicles registered to the Medal of Honor recipient. Medal of Honor recipients may elect to use the fee exemptions associated with Medal of Honor license plates for regular-issue license plates instead. Removes “Congressional” in refer-ence to the title of the medal. Defines “Medal of Honor” as the military decoration awarded by the President of the United States, in the name of Congress. Sponsor: Seaquist. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

HB 2744: Veteran-owned businesses — A qualifying veteran-owned business must be an enterprise incorporated in Washington as a domestic corporation or an enter-prise with its principal

place of business located in the state. Sponsor: G. Hunt. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

SB 5318: Military/resi-dent tuition — The defi-nition of resident student is revised to include the following:

n a student who is on active military duty or a member of the National Guard who entered ser-vice as a Washington resi-dent and has maintained Washington as their domi-cile but is not stationed in the state;

n a student who is a spouse or a dependent of a person who is on active military duty or a member of the National Guard entered service as a Washington resident and has maintained Washington as their domi-

cile but is not stationed in the state;

n a student who has separated from the mili-tary under honorable con-ditions after at least two years of service, enters an institution of higher education in Washington within one year of the date of separation, and meets one or more criteria regarding a connection or intended connection to Washington;

n a student who is the spouse or a dependent of an individual who has separated from the military under honorable conditions after at least two years of service, and meets certain criteria regarding a connection or intended connections

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Summary of new laws affecting veterans, families

JULY 31-AUG. 3n The Traveling Wall,

Veterans Memorial Museum, 100 SW Veterans Way, Chehalis. Info: 360-740-8875, [email protected].

AUG. 13n Kitsap County

Veterans Advisory Board

meeting, 5:30 p.m., Silverdale Community Center Evergreen Room.

AUG. 16n Celebrating Military

Service Day Parade, downtown Tacoma. Info: www.thedaffodilfestival.org/celebrating-military-service

AUG. 27n Boots2Work Military

Career Fair, 9 a.m., Cheney Stadium, Tacoma. For transitioning ser-vice members, veterans, retired military personnel and family.

SEPT. 5n Hire America's

Heroes 2014 Career Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center.

SEPT. 17n Kitsap County

Veterans Advisory Board meeting, 5:30 p.m., Silverdale Community Center Evergreen Room.

SEPT. 19n POW/MIA

Recognition Day.

OCT. 4n Stand Down, 9 a.m.

to 2 p.m., Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Many free services avail-able for veterans and their

dependents. Bring several copies of your DD214/discharge papers, or VA, military, retired military, Reserve or National Guard ID for faster service. Unaccompanied depen-dents must bring DD214 and proof of relationship.

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Welcome to the latest edition of Veterans Life, the Voice for Kitsap’s Veterans and their Families.

You’ll notice some changes.Our Opinion section debuts; this is where the newspaper, readers and guest columnists will

share views on topics of importance to veterans and their families. Please write to us; we wel-come your letters to the editor.

You’ll find Veterans Life easier to navigate, with columns and stories organized so topics are easy to identify — like Benefits, Health & Wellness, and Issues.

An introduction: I’m editor of the North Kitsap Herald, and the new editor of Veterans Life. I served as a quartermaster aboard the USS Manitowoc (LST 1180) from 1980-84. The Home of the Great Spirit (the meaning of the Mighty Manny’s Anishinaabe name) partici-pated in the Beirut Multinational Peacekeeping Force in 1982-83; and Operation Urgent Fury, the 1983 invasion of Grenada. (Was that really 31 years ago?)

My goal is to make Veterans Life an engaging publication, a catalyst for discussion, an informative and enjoyable read. Contact me anytime and share your ideas on how we can accomplish that mission: 360-779-4464, [email protected].

— Richard Walker

to Washington. Sponsor: Bailey. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

SSB 5691: Veterans’ homes — The Walla Walla Veterans’ home is estab-lished and maintained as a branch of the state soldiers’ home, and any veterans, veterans’ spous-es, or parents of children who died while serving in the armed forces may apply for admission. The requirement that a vet-eran or a veteran’s spouse or domestic partner be indigent to apply for admission to a state vet-erans’ home is removed. Parents of any child who

died while serving in the armed forces may be admitted as residents to a state veterans’ home. The requirement that state veterans’ homes provide both domiciliary and nursing care is removed. Sponsor: Hewitt. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

SB 5775: Veterans/drivers’ licenses — A per-son may apply to DOL to obtain a veteran designa-tion on a driver’s license or identification card. The person must provide the Department of Defense discharge document, DD Form 214, that shows a discharge status of hon-orable or general under honorable conditions, and establishes the per-son’s service in the armed

forces. Sponsor: Benton. Effective date: Aug. 30, 2017.

SSB 5969: Academic credit/military — Requires each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to award academic credit for military train-ing courses or programs before Dec. 31, 2015, and submit the policy to the Prior Learning Assessment workgroup for evaluation. Requires each public insti-tution of higher education to provide a copy of their policy to award academic credit for military train-ing to enrolled students who have listed prior or present military service in their application. Sponsor: O’Ban. Effective date: June

12, 2014.SB 6208: Veterans’

benefits/services — Prohibits a person from certain acts and practices related to assistance in the preparation, presenta-tion, or prosecution of a veterans’ benefits claim. Requires advertisements for events regarding vet-erans’ benefits to include a disclaimer. Makes cer-tain prohibited acts and practices a violation of the Consumer Protection Act. Sponsor: Hill. Effective date: June 12, 2014.

— Source: Washington state Department of Veterans Affairs. www.dva.wa.gov/PDF%20files/2014%20Legislative%20Session%20End%20Report.pdf

From the editor

ON THE COVER: There’s a small window of time to see it but it’s worth the trip: The American Veterans Traveling Tribute visits Chehalis through Aug. 3. See story, page 6. Photo: Richard Walker / Veterans Life

HEALTH & WELLNESSIf you have PTSD, you’re not alone, retired Navy commander MaryAnn Har-ris says. “Acknowledging it and dealing with it will lead to the best possible outcome.”

6 COVER STORYThe American Veterans Traveling Tribute brings a scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, aka the Wall, to Chehalis through Aug. 3.

OPINIONThe Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Fund is meeting the emergency needs of an increasing number of veterans and their families. Here’s how you, and Veterans Life, can help.

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WRITE TO US: Veterans Life welcomes letters from its readers. To make room for as many letters as possible, keep your letter to 350 words maximum. Include your name and daytime phone number for verification. Send to P.O. Box 278, Poulsbo, WA. 98370; fax to 360-779-8276; or email [email protected].

By LINDA E. TROUPCommander, USN, retired

Have you seen the famous video of Christian, the magnificent adult lion

living free in the wild who sud-denly sees his long-ago nurturers approaching in distant brush? Christian picks up their scent, becomes visibly excited and rapidly runs toward the two men, their joyful reunion still enjoyed by millions online.

Christian obviously remembers them, clam-ors to greet, then pas-sionately hugs, embraces the two men who raised him as a cub, all three together after their long separation.

Viewers marveled to see that a fearsome wild animal could display such an emotional, play-ful greeting. Clearly, this was not anthropomorphism but a display of real interspecious love.

That tender relationship capac-ity between humans and animals makes the Texas cheerleader’s recent savage, serial murders of beautiful African animals a most egregious act of ignorance. It indi-cates a detached, violent mentality so offensive that photos of her carnage were globally protested, then removed from popular social media due to their blatant display

of extreme animal cruelty.Ignorance breeds barbarity.

One does not love what one does not know. One does not respect or value what one does not appreci-ate. Ignorance makes it easier to cross the line to exploitation and abuse. So it is the failure of that

girl’s upbringing, her schooling, her parenting that omitted teaching respect for life, blunted her empathy, allowed such awful destruction of a magnitude that clearly obviates compassion, promotes brutality and defies humanity.

Although her sensa-tional kills were legal,

history has shown that what has been legal has not always been moral or ethical. Conservation was one of the many lame, absurd excuses for these thrill kills, her oxymoron that does not, will not, exonerate these awful acts of vio-lence.

What can one say about the character of anyone who derives pleasure from hunting down, ter-rorizing and killing innocent ani-mals? To regard animals as units or masses, some surplus to be limited by an arrogant, arbitrary number as their natural habitat is reduced, blatantly ignores that each animal has a unique person-ality, a family and a strong desire

to live and has value. These atroci-ties conveyed an attitude that values animal life only for one’s own twisted entertainment, for sick trophy value. The very con-cept of thrill kills indicates mental depravity.

Killing the “big five” — lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and buffalo, throw in a zebra — was extremely insensitive and demon-strated the antithesis of living a nonviolent life, to which all great spiritual leaders ascribe for a good, meaningful and fulfilling life.

Until we recognize the precious uniqueness and value of each animal, we will someday look back at our disrespectful species-ist behavior with great regret and terrible shame. If any good comes from this tragic loss of life, perhaps parents everywhere will learn from the worldwide outrage it generated from people who love animals and they may more earnestly teach their children respect, kindness and compassion for all life.

— Linda E. Troup of Poulsbo retired from the U.S. Navy as department head of the Ambulatory Procedure Unit and senior nurse officer for maxillofacial surgery at Naval Medical Center — San Diego. She is a long-time animal welfare proponent and has written for San Diego Animal Advocates magazine.

Subscribe now to Veterans Life and $5 from your subscrip-tion fee will go to the Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Fund.

Subscriptions are $24 a year. Send a check to Sound Publish-ing, Inc., Attn: Circulation, P.O. Box 657, Kirkland, WA 98083. Or visit us at 19351 8th Ave., Poulsbo. The fund is part of the Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Pro-gram, a division of the Kitsap County Human Services Depart-ment. State law requires that each county operate a veterans assistance fund, to be maintained in an account in the custody of the county auditor.The assistance fund is funded by a small portion of property taxes and helps veterans and their families who are unable to pay reasonable costs for shelter, food, utilities, and/or trans-portation. Assistance is temporary — it’s not a handout, it’s a hand.According to the county’s Veterans Assistance Program o� ce, the fund is being strained by an increasing number of veterans applying for temporary help. These veterans might be receiv-ing disability payments, Temporary Assistance for Needy Fami-lies, nutrition assistance, Medicaid, or Supplemental Security Income. Giving to the Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Fund will help the county meet the needs of veterans who might need help getting through a rough patch. In many cases, the course of their lives was a� ected by their service. It seems only proper that we stand ready to help these veterans and neighbors, as our lives were a� ected by their service as well.In addition to temporary emergency assistance, the Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Program co-produces spring and fall stand downs; co-hosts “The Unforgotten, Run to Tahoma,” in which the remains of deceased veterans are escorted to Tahoma National Cemetery; and provides emailed information of importance to local veterans. To learn more about programs available for veterans — and to provide input on those services and local veterans needs — attend a meeting of the Kitsap County Veterans Advisory Board. The board meets on the second week of each month, at 5:30 p.m., in the Silverdale Community Center’s Evergreen Room. And read Veterans Life to stay informed about issues and events of interest to local veterans and their families.

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Recognizing the value of each animal

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By THOM STODDERTVeterans Life correspondent

In June, I wrote about how a claim for ben-efits is made, what

paperwork is needed, and what to do with the forms (“Vets can power through the VA claims process,” page 12, June Veterans Life).

Now, let’s look at what the major benefit programs are and the differences between them. Lastly, let’s look at the various levels of benefit payments for these programs. This last part may be helpful; there are a lot of patriotic-sounding organizations that are real-ly businesses, confusing the programs and exploit-ing vets.

Understand, the Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA) and the Veterans Hospital Administration (VHA) are two different agencies within the VA. The Army drives tanks and the Navy drives ships. A buck ser-geant rarely communicates with a petty officer. Thus it is with the various staff of each agency — different missions. So this article is focused on the VBA.

Disability Compen-sation is the first and most familiar benefits program.

If a chronic medical condi-tion was incurred or made worse while in the service, it can now be compensated for with free medical treat-ment and financial pay-ment.

To draw a picture, a service member fell under some equipment when the ship rolled. As a result, she tore some ligaments in her right knee. The injury was documented along with the treatment and after a few days she was returned to full duty.

Getting out of the service, the vet makes a claim with the VA. She is assessed and found that the knee problem is not really a problem, yet. So it is “service connected” at zero percent. Yes, there is no money, but it does have the legal qualification of being “service connected.”

Years later, the vet needs a knee replacement. She will be rated at a higher percentage afterward by another claim to the VBA and paid accordingly. The final assessment for the rating percentage will be determined with medi-cal evidence and the VA’s Rating Schedule.

To sum this up, a chron-ic medical condition must be shown by evidence to have a link to military service and be chronic. Disability Compensation often extends to other benefit programs for the vet and/or family members with education, medical care, and financial support. There are too many vets who miss this point and blow off any claims they could and should make.

Dependents Indemnity Compensation (DIC) is a program for surviving spouses that can be award-ed and, in some cases, can be extended to other family members. It comes with educational benefits

and higher levels of pay-ments when the need is shown. There are several categories of eligibility that will qualify a beneficiary; briefly explained, they are:

n The veteran dies on active duty.

n The veteran dies for any reason within five years after active duty, while rated as being totally and permanently disabled because of a service-con-nected issue(s).

n The veteran dies for any reason and while rated as being totally and perma-nently disabled because of service-connected issue(s) for 10 years or more at any time.

n The veteran dies of any service-connected condi-tion at any time in his or her life.

There is also consider-ation for military retirees who have elected to pay into the military’s Survivor Benefits Plan (SBP). The two different programs can offset each other. Do contact the closest Military Retirement Office.

Pension is another benefits program that may be awarded to either the veteran or family member. The purpose is to help financially strapped vets/

family reach the federally set poverty line. The eligi-bility requirements, basi-cally explained, are:

n The veteran must have a discharge other than dishonorable, 90 days of service with at least one day of it during a period of conflict as set by Congress.

The beneficiary must be disabled usually due to non-service connected medical conditions or older than 65.

The veteran must be able to show financial need, generally having a financial worth of less than $80,000.

Caution here: There are innumerable businesses posing as advocates that will try to make a potential beneficiary eligible by lowering the claimant’s financial worth with the purchases of poor quality financial products. The vet or family member then appears impoverished for VA purposes, yet may be breaking federal law.

Working with these pension poachers — as they are now called — will lead to major headaches and the probable loss of benefits from the VA and/or Medicaid. Stay with a “nationally chartered vet-eran service organization.”

The state Legislature recently enacted laws to curtail false advocacy of pension poachers. On the other side of the same coin, lawyers will assist in filing VA claims but you’ll be charged for legal fees. Filing a claim with the VA is by law a free service, still these business people use loopholes around the law.

Aid and Attendance (A&A) is an often heard about benefit, but it is not a benefit program as indicat-ed by businesspersons. In reality, it is a much higher level of payment for any of the benefit programs. It requires medical evidence for a need of a higher level of skilled medical care. Usually, it must be shown that the recipient of one of the benefit programs is in need of help/protection with the activities of daily living (ADLs), essentially higher skilled medical care.

Housebound is an intermediate level of pay-ment between a basic program and A&A. This is granted when the medical evidence shows that the recipient is unable to leave their place of habitation

Filing a successful claim with the VA, part 2BENEFITS

Here is a listing of resources for veterans in Kitsap County.

n American Legion Post 109, Silverdale

Address: 10710 Silverdale Way, Silverdale.

Contact: Email [email protected], or visit on Facebook.

Meets on the third Monday of the month, 7 p.m., at All Star Lanes & Casino.

n American Legion Post 149, Bremerton

Address: 4922 Kitsap Way,

Bremerton. 360-373-8983. Online: www.legion-

149wa.orgn American Legion Post

172, Bainbridge IslandAddress: 7880 NE Bucklin

Hill Road, Bainbridge Island. 206-842-5000.

Online: www.bain-bridgeislandpost172.org.

Meets first and third Friday of the month, 7:30 p.m.

n American Legion Post

200, BelfairContact: Tom Welch,

email [email protected] on the first

Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.

n American Legion Post 245 Veterans Service Office, Poulsbo

Address: 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A, downtown Poulsbo. 360-779-5456.

Open every Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

n Disabled American Veterans

Address: 2315 Burwell St.,

Bremerton. 360-373-2397.n Kitsap County

Veterans Assistance Program

Address: Kitsap County Department of Human Services, 614 Division St., MS-23, Port Orchard.

Contact: Tom Vialpando, program coordinator, 360-337-4811.

Online: www.kitsapgov.com/hs/veterans/VA.htm.

n Marine Corps League Olympic Peninsula Detachment 531

Address: 2315 Burwell St.,

Bremerton. 360-265-7492.Meets on the first

Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m.

n VFW Post 239, Bremerton

Address: 190 Dora Ave., Bremer-ton. 360-377-6739.

Meets second Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m.

n VFW Post No. 1694, Shelton

Address: Memorial Hall, Second and Franklin streets, Shelton. 360-426-4546.

Meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each

month, 7 p.m. Beverages and snacks are served at 6 p.m. by the Ladies Auxiliary.

n WorkSource Kitsap County

Address: 1300 Sylvan Way, second floor, Bremerton. 360-337-4767.

Contact: Michael Robinson, disabled veterans outreach, 360-337-4727, [email protected]. Or [email protected].

— To be included in this list of Veterans Resources, email [email protected]

Numbers you can count on: Veterans’ resources in Kitsap CountyFYI

See BENEFITS, Page 6

FOR ASSISTANCE ...n The American Legion

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The Veterans Service Office is located at 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A, downtown Poulsbo. 360-779-5456.

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CHEHALIS — Most people know at least one man or woman

who served in the military during the Vietnam War. Most of those veterans know some who never made it home.

From July 31 to Aug. 3, the public can honor those men and women who gave their lives in service to their country when the American Veterans

Traveling Tribute erects its scale replica of the

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

outside the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis.

The 370-foot long wall

is an 80-percent scale replica of the memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In con-

junction with the visit, Vietnam War veterans — and others who lost loved ones there — will share their recollections during

Replica of Vietnam memorial wall visits regionTributes, services scheduled from July 31 to Aug. 3 in Chehalis

COVER STORYThe Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall is an 80-percent scale replica of the memo-rial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Richard Walker / Veterans Life

without the aid of another person.

These are the most basic programs available. If you

have a question, do call the VA at 1-800-827-1000 or the state Department of Veterans Affairs at 1-800-562-2308 to see if there is a benefit to meet your need.

— Thom Stoddert is a combat veteran and former

VA rating specialist with four years’ experience mak-ing decisions on veterans claims. He helps veterans file claims under the auspic-es of several groups. Contact him at [email protected].

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See WALL, Page 7

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More than 10,000 people visited the last time the black traveling wall bearing the names of more than 58,000 men and women lost during the Vietnam War stopped in Chehalis in 2007.

Volunteers with com-puters will help visitors identify which panel bears the name of a lost friend or family member, and uniformed escorts will help them find the panel. Chaplains will be on duty during the event to com-fort, console, and counsel those who need it.

The traveling wall will be escorted into town July 30 by motorcyclists from the Patriot Guard of Washington, Lewis County ABATE, American Legion Riders, and law enforce-ment agencies. The follow-ing day, July 31, during a program beginning at 6 p.m., representatives from local organizations will lay wreaths at the wall.

The 6 p.m. opening ceremonies on Aug. 1, will feature retired Air Force Lt. Col. Travis Wofford, a rescue helicopter pilot awarded the Air Force Cross Citation “for heroism in military operations” in Vietnam.

On April 15, 1970, near Dak Nay Puey, then-Major Wofford was wounded during attempts to res-cue the crew of an Army helicopter shot down by enemy ground fire, but he returned a third time. Heavy weapons gunfire severely damaged his air-craft and it plunged to the ground, but he freed him-self from the wreckage and tried to rescue the pilot, who was killed on impact. He rushed to help other crew members engulfed in flames, extinguishing the blaze and dragging the men to safety.

His Air Force Cross Citation reads, “Through his extraordinary hero-ism, superb airmanship, and aggressiveness in the face of an opposing armed force, Major Wofford reflected the highest credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.”

On Aug. 2 at 11 a.m., during the Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day, the speaker will be retired Army Special Forces Major John Plaster, author of six books, includ-ing “SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam.”

Plaster, who served three tours in Vietnam, is credited with 22 mis-sions deep behind enemy lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and Cambodia, including a night ambush of a North Vietnamese truck convoy and capture of an impor-tant enemy prisoner. He was wounded once and decorated four times for heroism. The Green Beret soldier has been inducted into the USAF Air

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their story in her latest book, “Second Watch.”

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Closing ceremonies will take place at 1 p.m. Aug. 3, with retired Army Col. Ron H. Averill as speaker. Averill served as a Southeast Asia specialist at the Pacific Command when American troops evacuated Vietnam, and advised commanders dur-ing tense moments along the Korean demilitarized zone. He served as com-mander of the Intelligence Center of the Pacific in Honolulu before retiring in 1989.

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A visitor to the American Veterans Traveling Tribute’s replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall looks for a name during the wall’s visit to the Swinomish Casino & Lodge, near La Conner, in August 2011. Richard Walker / Veterans Life

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working 12-hour shifts six days a week to keep each Marine alive and stabilized so he could be medevaced to the States.

She saw indescribable courage. Like the young Marine who, after a gen-eral pinned a Purple Heart

on his chest, pulled himself up with what remained of an arm and sang the Marine Corps hymn. He later died of his injuries. “He never whimpered or complained,” Harris said.

She witnessed the heal-ing power of love. Like the time comedian Bob Hope visited the Sanctuary, visited every bedside, and held the hand of the 17- or 18-year-old Marine with the

angelic face, the one who doctors and nurses wor-ried might spend a lifetime on dialysis. Shortly after the visit with Bob Hope, the young Marine’s kid-neys started to work again.

Oh, that wasn’t the hard part. Those doctors and nurses and corpsmen learned to put their emo-tions away, learned to lock them up somewhere deep and never react to what they saw, not even when a limb was missing or they could see internal organs or the Marine asked if he was going to die. Each case presented another race to save and stabilize. Adrenaline was running high. You kept a straight face and did what you could.

And the battle-injured kept coming.

Those injured Marines and those doctors and nurses and corpsmen did what they did “because we believed in our country,” Harris said.

And if they survived, even if not injured, they returned home changed. It

was called “shell shock” in earlier wars, and America never quite knew how to

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PTSD: It’s real, it’s treatable, and you’re not alone

Navy Lt. MaryAnn Franzino, kneeling, visits with a young patient aboard the USS Sanctuary, in 1971 or 1972. MaryAnn Harris Collection

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Those with PTSD includ-ed medical personnel.

“We weren’t on the front line, but we saw the effects of the front line,” said Harris, who helps other veterans with PTSD.

“PTSD is a normal reac-tion to an abnormal situa-tion. When you recognize what it is, you can treat it. There is no cure; you learn

to cope with the symp-toms.”

‘The real healing point’

Harris is a native of New Jersey. The Navy paid for her final two years at Syracuse University, and upon graduation in 1967 she was commissioned and stationed at Oakland Naval Hospital where she treated war-injured Marines. She served a year in Oakland, a year in Guam, a year on the Sanctuary, then returned to Oakland for four more years.

She served eight years on active duty, transferred to the Reserves and went to graduate school to become a nurse practitio-

ner. She helped establish the first drug and alcohol treatment facility in the Navy, and in Bremerton became the first woman commanding officer of a Reserve medical unit. She served a total of 22 years, retiring as a commander.

Post-Navy, she owned the Port Gamble General Store and stores in Bremerton and Port Ludlow. In March 2001, she produced a local version of the award-winning play, “A Piece of My Heart,” at the Navy Undersea Museum in Keyport. The play tells the true stories of six women sent to Vietnam and their struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocably changed them. After the play, Harris’ husband —

also a Vietnam War-era Navy officer — said he understood her better.

After her husband died, Harris returned to VA to counsel veterans with PTSD.

PTSD can be treated with therapy and/or medication. People also learn to identify and avoid situations that may trigger PTSD symptoms. Harris said she left a Halloween party where a lot of people were dressed as zombies. She was having trouble breathing; she realized a lot of the makeup and costumes reminded her of battlefield injuries she saw. During the Fourth of July, she avoids fireworks because of obvious rea-sons.

Another therapy: Working through your feel-ings.

“Going to the Wall was a real healing point for me,” Harris said. “I had thought, how could I dare go to the Wall? These were the guys I couldn’t help, nor could I remember the names of the guys I couldn’t help. I found that other women felt the same way I did. Knowing other people felt that way normalized the experience and helped me cope.”

Harris is proud of her Navy service; that year on the Sanctuary stands out. “We were on the forefront

of medicine,” she said. The ship had 20 wards and four operating rooms, three X-ray units, a frozen-blood bank, a hyperbaric cham-ber, an artificial kidney machine, and ultrasonic diagnostic equipment. The staff included an open-heart surgeon and a neu-rosurgeon. The lives they saved included Vietnamese civilians, including chil-dren.

She remembers her Marines — if not their names, their faces. And their injuries. And for years she wondered what their lives were like. What was their quality of life? Could they be happy after expe-riencing the ravages of the Vietnam battlefield?

She got her answer when the Vietnam Women’s Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. The memorial depicts three nurses, one on her knees holding a wounded veteran on her lap.

Harris and other mili-tary nurses paraded down Constitution Avenue, grouped according to their branches of service. On both sides of the street along the parade route, vet-erans stood 10 to 12 deep. “They saluted us, they applauded us, they hugged us,” Harris said. “They told us they were happy we helped them survive. They were happy. They

had families.” One veteran wrote her a note: “Thank you for my life.”

The healing power of love

On Veterans Day 2013, Harris was in uniform, attending a salute to veter-ans in Bellingham.

“I feel very strongly about Veterans Day and what happens in war,” she said. “The effects of war are devastating, and it’s worst now because soldiers and Marines are serving multiple tours.”

During the Vietnam War, a soldier or Marine did a year-long tour and returned home. “Today, these guys go home and come back, go home and come back,” she said. “Incidents of PTSD are higher because of repeated deployments.”

Today, Harris is a Red Cross volunteer, serving with a group that visits military bases to work with returning veterans and their families. She’s also on a Red Cross disaster relief team.

Her message: If you have PTSD, you don’t have to go it alone. If you’re active duty, see an active-duty doctor. If you’re a veteran, go to VA. A good place to start: The Veterans Service Office, 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A, Poulsbo. The office is open Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is supported by American Legion Post 245 in Poulsbo.

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By DOUGLAS H. STUTZNaval Hospital Bremerton Public Affairs

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The agreement links both organizations in pro-viding specific types of medical care to current Veterans Affairs eligible beneficiaries enrolled to the Bremerton Community-Based Outpatient Clinic. As the mission and operational tempo permits, NHB will provide urgent/emergent and inpatient medical ser-vices to those 3,829 cur-rent eligible beneficiaries

in the VA Puget Sound Health Care System CBOC. Appointments are made on a space-available basis sub-ject to capability and capac-ity and began in June.

NHB’s Urgent Care Center Services for autho-rized VA beneficiaries will include diagnostic tests and professional services. Emergency medicine ser-vices at Naval Hospital Bremerton are scheduled to transition to Urgent Care Services by September. When that transition occurs, NHB will no longer be able to provide emer-gency medicine services to any beneficiaries. However, urgent care services will be available.

Inpatient services pro-vided by NHB will include but are not limited to:

n Cardiologyn Endoscopyn ENTn Gastroenterologyn General surgeryn Gynecologyn Neurologyn Ophthalmologyn Orthopedicsn Pulmonologyn UrologyLaborator y and

Pathology services will include anatomical pathol-ogy, chemistry, hematology and microbiology to sup-

port urgent/emergent and inpatient medical services.

Radiology services will include Nuclear Medicine CT, MRI, US, X-ray and angiography to support urgent/emergent and inpa-tient medical services.

Blood Product services for inpatients and outpa-tients will be calculated using direct materials, direct labor and direct pro-duction costs.

NHB will also provide in-patient pharmacy sup-port. Upon discharge from NHB, the beneficiary will be provided an initial dis-charge prescription of up to a 10-day supply of medication. If the patient requires refills, the patient will follow-up with his/her Bremerton CBOC primary care manager.

Additionally, veterans who are treated in the NHB Urgent Care Center after hours or on the weekends may receive a written outpa-tient prescription but it will not be filled by NHB. Any outpatient prescription(s) services for VA Puget Sound Health Care System beneficiaries will be provid-ed at the Bremerton CBOC or closest VA pharmacy to their home with his or her VA primary care provider.


MEDICAL CENTERS AND HOSPITALS

n Madigan Army Medical Center, 9040 Jackson Ave, Tacoma, 253-968-1110, www.mamc.amedd.army.mil

n Naval Hospital Bremerton, 1 Boone Road, Bremerton, 360-

475-4232, www.med.navy.mil/sites/nhbrem/Pages/default.aspx

n VA Puget Sound Seattle, 1660 South Columbian Way, Seattle, 800-329-8387, www.pugetsound.va.gov

n VA Puget Sound American Lake, 9600

Veterans Drive, Tacoma, 800-329-8387, www.pugetsound.va.gov

CLINICSn Bellevue CBOC

(Valor Healthcare), 13033 Bel-Red Road, Suite 210, Bellevue, 425-214-1055 or 425-214-1055, www.puget-

sound.va.gov/locations/bellevue.asp

n Bremerton CBOC, 925 Adele Ave., Bremerton, 360-782-0129, www.puget-sound.va.gov/locations/bremerton.asp

n Federal Way CBOC, 34617 11th Place South, Suite 301, Federal Way, 253-336-4142, www.pugetsound.va.gov/

locations/FederalWay.asp

n North Olympic Peninsula CBOC, 1114 Georgiana St., Port Angeles, 360-565-7420, www.pugetsound.va.gov/locations/PortAngeles.asp

n North Seattle CBOC (Valor Healthcare), 12360 Lake City Way NE, Suite

200, Seattle, 206-384-4382, www.puget-sound.va.gov/locations/NorthSeattle.asp

n South Sound CBOC (Sterling Medical), 151 NE Hampe Way, Chehalis, 360-748-3049, www.pugetsound.va.gov/locations/SouthSound.asp

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Vets memorial proposal deadline Aug. 29

OLYMPIA — The Governor’s Veterans Af fairs Advisor y Committee is accepting grant proposals for veter-ans memorials.

Applications must be postmarked no later than Aug. 29 to be considered.

Funding for accepted proposals comes from the Veterans Remembrance Emblem Fund. The fund, established in 1990, is administered by the state Department of Veterans Affairs in partnership with the Department of Licensing.

The Emblem Fund permits eligible veterans to purchase and display approved decals on their vehicle license plates through the Department of Licensing, with net fees deposited in a special account held by the state treasurer.

RCW 46.16.332 allows disbursement of these funds by the advisory

committee for direct costs of contracting and contract and project administration related to:

n Projects that pay trib-ute to living and deceased veterans.

n Upkeep and opera-tions of existing memori-als.

n Land acquisition and construction of new memorials.

The advisory commit-tee is composed of 17 members and advises the governor and the direc-tor of the Department of Veterans Affairs on issues and programs concern-ing veterans.

To review proposal requirements, go to www.dva.wa.gov/emblem-fund.html or contact Liza Narciso at 360-725-2157 or email [email protected].

Go to www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistrat ion/spveteranemb.html to learn more about how to purchase license plate emblems from the Department of Licensing.

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