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IRSC celebrates veterans’ international experience

Their military experiences ranged from World War II Europe

to modern-day Afghanistan. Their stories were humorous, endear-ing, and sometimes harrowing. One had children rush to hug him after hard combat. “(People in Belgium) were very

appreciative,” Bob Parenti, Stu-art, said. “They called us libera-tors.” Others had to watch the local

children closely to avoid ambush-es.

“The kids — they were one of our biggest threats,” David Yankwitt, Palm City, told attendees. He was in the Army from 2007

Veterans talk about their military experi-ences. On Thursday, Nov. 7, six veterans shared their military experiences to a room of about 100 at Indian River State College’s Pruitt Campus, Port St. Lucie. The U.S. Overseas Panel Discussion was part of the school’s International Edu-cation Week. From left are Bob Parenti, Patrick Conlin, Donna Carlsen, David Yankwitt, Pierre Pacheco, and Clayton McGee.

Photo by Patrick McCallister

Former service members from all branches of the military share their memories with students, guests

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County Veterans Service OfficersSt. Lucie County, Wayne TeegardinPhone: (772) 337-5670Fax: (772) [email protected] J. Conrad Building(formerly the Walton Road Annex Bldg.)1664 S.E. Walton Road, Suite 205Port St. Lucie, FL 34952By appointmentMon., Tues, Thurs, Fri * 8:30 am-4:30 pmWed * 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Lucie County Community Services Bldg.(Corner of Avenue D and 7th Street)437 N. Seventh St., Fort Pierce, FL 34950Walk-insMon. and Fri. * 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Brevard Veteran’s Services Office2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way,Bldg. B, Suite 102, Viera, FL 32940Office: (321) 633-2012Fax: (321) 637-5432Mon., Tues. and Thurs., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.Wed. and Fri, 8 a.m.-noonManager: Glenn McGuffieIndian River CountyJoel HermanVero Beach 2525 St. Lucie Ave.,Vero Beach, FL 32960 Ph: (772) 226-1499 Fax: (772) 770-5038Sebastian Square 11602 U.S. 1, Sebastian, FL 32958 Ph: (772) 589-6597 Fax: (772) 581-4988

Martin CountyTony Reese, Veterans Service Office SupervisorNick Ciotti, Veterans Service Officer(772) 288-5448Veterans Services OfficeMartin County Community Services435 S.E. Flagler Ave., Stuart, FL 34994Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.VA Life Insurance Ctr., Phil., PA - 1-800-669-8477 VA Regional Office - 1-800-827-1000 VA Medical Ctr, W. Palm Beach - 1-800-972-8262 Pharmacy, VA Medical Center - 1-800-317-8387 Military Retired Pay Activities, Cleveland, OH - (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force ONLY) 1-800-321-1080 Military Retired Pay Activities, Topeka, KS - (Coast Guard ONLY)1-800-772-8724 Survivor Benefits (SBP),Denver, CO - 1-800-435-3396 Stuart VA Clinic - (772) 288-0304 Okeechobee CountyVeterans Services office (863) 763-6441, Ext 5.Fax: (863) 763-0118.Orlando VA Medical Cente5201 Raymond St., Orlando, FL 32803(407) 629-1599 or (800) 922-7521Telephone Care(407) 599-1404 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon. - Fri. (800) 645-6895 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mon - Fri (321) 637-3625 Viera patients8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mon. - Fri. (877) 741-3400 Weekends, holidays, evenings and nights

West Palm Beach Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center7305 North Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33410(561) 422-8262 or (800) 972-8262 Telephone Care(561) 422-6838 (866) 383-9036 Open 24 hours - 7 daysViera VA Outpatient Clinic2900 Veterans Way, Viera, FL 32940Phone: (321) 637-3788 1 (877) 878-8387Mon. - Fri. - 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.St Lucie County PTSD Clinical Team (PCT) Outpatient Program126 S.W. Chamber Court,Port St Lucie, FL 34986Phone: (772) 878-7876Fort Pierce Community BasedOutpatient Clinic727 North U.S. 1, Fort Pierce, FL 34950Phone: (772) 595-5150Fax: (772) 595-6560St Lucie Community Based Outpatient Clinic128 S.W. Chamber Court,Port Saint Lucie, FL 34986Phone: (772) 344-9288Stuart Community BasedOutpatient Clinic 3501 S E Willoughby Boulevard,Stuart, FL 34997Phone: (772) 288-0304Fax: (772) 288-1371Vero Beach Community BasedOutpatient Clinic372 17th St., Vero Beach, FL 32960Phone: (772) 299-4623Fax: (772) 299-4632

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Celebrating our fighting forces

Photos by Patrick McCallister On Monday, Nov. 11, hundreds turned out for the annual Stuart Veterans Day Parade, the only large annual Veterans Day event in Martin County. John Pietruszewski served in the Navy from 1960 to 1968. Terrill Newell Sr. was a Devil Dog in the early 1980s. His son is now a brother forever; Terrill Newell Jr. joined the Marines in 2009. Jim Eppolito was an aerial sub hunter in the Navy during the Korean War. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4194, Stuart, sponsors Citrus Grove Elementary Cub Scout Pack 851.

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to 2009 and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. On Thursday, Nov. 7, six veter-

ans shared their military experi-ences to a room of about 100 at Indian River State College’s Pruitt Campus, Port St. Lucie. The U.S. Overseas Panel Discussion was part of the school’s International Education Week. If you think college kids don’t

care about the military anymore …“Please, I’d like to get a pho-

to with a World War II hero,” 20-year-old Christanie Desir said to Parenti. Parenti — an Operation Overlord

veteran and author of “A Story of Love and War: World War II Rec-ollections From Letters Written to a Soldier’s Sweetheart” — smiled with Desir at a dozen cameras as the young woman squeezed to him. Harvey Arnold, IRSC provost and

Vietnam War veteran, moderated the panel discussion.“What a lot of people don’t real-

ize is the memories of our service becomes part of our DNA,” he said at the summit. Arnold did stints in the Army

and Marine Corps. After the panel discussion, he told Veteran Voice it’s important for veterans to talk to high school and college youths.“I was bored in high school and

didn’t have a direction in life,” he said.

Arnold said that serving in the military made him aware that life is limited. He said that inspired him to pursue and finish higher education. “I found the urgency of life,” he

said. Panelist Pierre Pacheco, Jensen

Beach, was in the Air Force from ’99 to ‘03. He told attendees that military life showed him life is uncertain and friendships are important. “My first experience overseas

was right after (Sept. 11, 2001),” he said. “It was just a few days later I got my orders.” He said those orders came with

an overwhelming caveat. They had no end dates. Then there was the flight into Tajikistan. “We kept hearing bing, bing,

bing,” he said. “We were whis-pering, ‘What is that?” One of the sergeants came on the line and he said, ‘They’re shooting at us. You should probably sit on your helmets.’” Donna Carlsen is an Operation

Restore Hope, Somalia, veteran and commander of the Disabled American Veterans Post 113, Port St. Lucie, said the military gives veterans a rare sense of commu-nity. “I had the opportunity to pass it

down,” she said. “Both my chil-dren joined the military.” Other panelists were Port St.

Lucie’s Clayton McGee, Army 1986-1990, and Patrick Conlin, Air Force 1983-2009.

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Photo by Patrick McCallister World War II veteran Bob Parenti poses with Christanie Desir, a 20-year-old student at Indian River State College. On Thursday, Nov. 7, six veterans shared their military experiences to a room of about 100 at the college’s Pruitt Campus, Port St. Lucie. The U.S. Overseas Panel Discussion was part of the school’s International Education Week. Desir wanted a picture ‘with a World War II hero.’

Photo by Patrick McCallister Harvey Arnold, Army and Marine Corps veteran and provost at Indian River State Col-lege, talks about his experiences in the Vietnam War. On Thursday, Nov. 7, six veter-ans shared their military experiences to a room of about 100 at the college’s Pruitt Campus, Port St. Lucie. The U.S. Overseas Panel Discussion was part of the school’s International Education Week. The panelists were Bob Parenti, Patrick Conlin, Donna Carlsen, David Yankwitt, Pierre Pacheco, and Clayton McGee.

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Three local air shows flew into uncertain skies, and landed good results, organizers say. There’s been a dearth of air

shows in Florida for the last few months, but that changed locally with the inaugural revival of the Vero Beach Air Show, Oct. 5 to 6, followed by the annual Stuart Air Show, Nov. 1 to 2, and the inaugural Melbourne Air & Space Show, Nov. 2 and 3. “The attendance was great,” Stu-

art Air Show board of directors member Michael Roberts said. “We don’t have all the numbers yet.”Eric Ingraham said the Stuart

show flew into some dark clouds, but found sunshine. He’s a member of the show’s marketing committee. “I understand our attendance

was a little down on Saturday over other years,” he said. “But Sunday was very, very good.” Martin Zickert, president of the

Veterans Council of Indian River County, was among the organiz-ers of the Vero Beach show.

“Considering it was the first time they did one in 18 years, it went well,” he said. “We didn’t make a fortune; we didn’t lose a fortune. We haven’t done all the numbers yet, but it looks like we broke even.” He said there appeared to be

some customer confusion about the recently-revived show that cost ticket sales. “There was a ton of cars parked

along the sides of roads,” he said. “They didn’t realize the air show really was at the (Vero Beach Airport)” Bryan Lilley, owner of B. Lilley

Productions, helped organize and promote the Melbourne show. That show was put together on the fly after the Cocoa Beach Air & Space Show was canceled when the Air Force Thunderbirds were grounded from the air-show circuit earlier this year. The Thunderbirds was the headlining act for the Cocoa Beach show. “(The Melbourne Air & Space

Show) went very well,” Lilley said. “We were really pleased. We got a full show in.” Air shows have been unusual-

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerMembers of the U.S. Sea Cadet Corps from Palm Beach and Orlando march in forma-tion along the perimeter of the staging area for the demonstrations performed at 28th Annual Muster at the National Navy UDT SEAL Museum Saturday, Nov.9 in Fort Pierce.

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Two Martin County Sheriff’s Office helicopters fly over the Veterans Day parade route in Stuart to start the parade. The cele-bration of veterans took place Monday, Nov. 11 with a ceremony following the parade at Memorial Park.

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ly quiet in Florida since spring, Lilley said in a previous interview. His company specializes in air shows.“Normally there’d be 15 (in Flor-

ida) from March to November,” he said. “Sequestration canceled a lot of air shows.” Put simply, the federal budget

sequestration grounded the Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels. Those crack demon-stration teams are the air show rock stars. Without them, tickets just don’t usually sell nearly as well. Lilley said a number of or-ganizers shut down shows rather than go the 2013 season without the elite flight teams to draw tick-et buyers. The crack pilots of the Thunder-

birds and Blue Angels are high-ly-trained and motivated combat aviators who can fly through any melee — except bickering politi-cians. Previously, Congress passed

and the president signed the Budget Control Act of 2011. The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the super committee, formed to work out a deal for Congress to raise the fed-eral government’s debt ceiling to avoid sovereign default on previ-ously appropriated spending. The committee hatched the idea

of giving Congress and President Barack Obama a frightening prospect if they couldn’t agree on budget cuts and revenue increas-es — sequestration, automatic

across-the-board spending cuts over 10 years accompanied by expiring tax reductions. Many believed the prospect of across-the-board budget cuts that could send the nation into recession would force Congress and the president to work toward more agreeable solutions.While some compromises have

happened, the Congress and White House are still routine-ly locked in budget battles that brought on the budget sequestra-tion. More recently, the budget tensions brought on the 16-day partial federal government shut-down and a looming specter: another federal debt-ceiling fight that is likely keep the elite mil-itary flight teams out of next year’s air-show circuit. Roberts said that even without

the Blue Angels and Thunder-birds, the military is an integral part of air shows. “No military flew in the (Stuart

Air Show), but we had military at the show,” he said. Among other things, the Air

Force Command Center Alpha was at Stuart. The mobile center is a multi-media promotion and recruitment tool. Additionally, Stuart had a Thunderbird jet displayed, but it didn’t fly during the show. Air shows are important to vet-

erans for a number of reasons. Many veterans organizations recruit members through them. Roberts said Stuart is also a do-

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerJovani Guerrero, 14 and Tyrique Lewis, 13, both of Hobe Sound step out of the Veterans Day Parade in Stuart to greet Harley Dingman, a World War II veteran. Dingman retired as a sergeant major of the 3rd Battalion, 506th parachute regiment of the 101st Airborne Army and was awarded the Purple Heart and fought during the Battle of the Bulge.

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PALM CITY — After decades of talk about and planning for one, there’s a second over-the-river connection between Palm City and Stuart. Folks will have a day to walk it. The Veterans Memorial Bridge Dedication will launch at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16.

The day will start with a 7 a.m. 5k run organized by MCM Tim-ing and Results, Jensen Beach. Other festivities will start at 9:30 a.m. Dignitaries will be on hand to dedicate the bridge. At 10:45 folks will get treated to a simulta-neous car and boat parade. Additionally, folks will have a

chance to get a bit of history by getting mugs and T-shirts with the bridge logo designed by National Guard sergeant Mickey

Planker. The Stuart man, along with the rest of the Florida Na-tional Guard’s 806th Military Police Company, returned home on Aug. 23 from a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Opera-tion Enduring Freedom. Planker designed the logo while serving in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Proceeds from the mug and

T-shirt sales will benefit local veterans.

The bridge will remain closed to regular traffic after the ceremony. “We’ll be out here piddling

around until Christmas,” George Denti, project manager, said. The final riding deck was poured

on Saturday, Oct. 26. The 3,100-foot bridge now reaches across the St. Lucie River’s South Fork and connects Martin Highway in Palm City to Kanner Highway and Indian Street in Stuart.


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nation maker for some. “There’re a lot of different vet-

erans organizations that come out here that make (money),” he said. For example, the Road to Vic-

tory Military Museum, Stuart, was among the beneficiaries of the Stuart air show. Roberts is the president of that not-for-profit operation. “We raised enough money (at

the Stuart Air Show) to put a new roof on, and that was our goal.”

Zickert said that the Vero Beach Air Show organizers have meetings set with the Blue Angels site-selection officials in coming weeks. That doesn’t mean the Blue Angels will necessarily fly at the show. Plans are to have the Vero Beach show again on Mother’s Day weekend, May 10 and 11, next year. The annual Valiant Air Com-

mand Warbird Museum & TICO AirShow in Titusville, March 22 to 24, was the last performance of the Thunder-birds.

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PALM CITY — Molly’s House opens its doors to anyone in need, but decided to make a spe-cial welcome to veterans, service members and their families. On Monday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day, Louise Murtaugh, executive direc-tor, announced the special effort to serve veterans. The medical hospitality house will reserve two of its 14 rooms for veterans, mili-tary members, and their families. Co-founder Kevin Sharkey said

that since he was unable to serve in the military due to an eye condition, it thrills him for Mol-ly’s House to offer the service to veterans. “You know, they gave so much,”

he said. “To me it’s giving thanks to our veterans.” His daughter, Molly Sharkey,

died in 1992 after a six-year battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Before she died, Molly asked her family to help her build a hospitality house, a comfortable and comforting place for medical patients — and their families — getting care at Martin Memorial Medical Center and other facil-ities in Stuart. Molly’s House opened at 430 S.E. Osceola St. in 1996.

Army veteran Alan Atwood, from Indiana, spoke at the press con-ference. He’s staying at Molly’s House with his brother, Verne Warner of Fort Pierce. He said Molly’s House helped his fami-ly during one of its most trying times. “I would have had no way of

staying with my brother when he was in the hospital for 53 days,” he said. Warner, in an interview after the

press conference, said he would have likely died after an inter-nal-organ failure had his brother not been nearby. “It helps you recover to have

someone here,” he said. “I woke up out of surgery and someone I know was there.” Molly’s House hasn’t set aside

particular rooms for veterans, Murtaugh said. She explained that the rooms are varying sizes and configurations to accommo-date different families. She said instead Molly’s House will always assure that at least two rooms are occupied by or available for military members, veterans, and their families. “They’ll be rotating rooms,”

she said. “We’ll always have two rooms available and more if need-ed. We’ll track veterans from now on when they come here.” For more information, visit mol-

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the west side of the bridge in Palm City (Butler Avenue area). Golf carts will be available to help those who may need special assistance. You must be pre-registered to participate in the 5K run and car parade.

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SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM • SUNDAY 11AM-5PM

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