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Show HILL TOP TIMES 2 Page 'mes. Janua Firemen r"A A ml v UScf) "elping W. 19S Exten Hand To Fire UirtiJ t ss But yet his childish steps led into my path. I honked the horn. I kicked into the brakes. I heard the tires squeal. And then the thud. I say his little body hurled through the air and fall down flat just as my stopping wheel almost touched him once more. ? donate $120 to help a fire Whatever the reason, ft praiseworthy -a- nd deeply !; preciated-- not fa? only by ily who were so desperatdl need of it but by Elden Char! AsBistant fire chief at Hil AFR hl-sister's fan. included nine children, J recently burned out during!! j I saw him running out between two cars. He looked away. SH But we rather kind hearts and generSiit 5" of the Hill AFB firemen "I Killed a Child" then. "Mill! inave an ledge of the horror surrounding a fire Maybe that was one sons local firefighters tmLtS S. while after you (Editor's Note: This article will haunt you for a Prin-fread it but it will surely make you stop and think. It has been in many different publications. General Robey saw it in the every-on- e Ground Accident Digest and felt it would be a good article for at Hill AFB to read. It originally appeared in the Buffalo, New and was written by Walter Froelich.) York, Courier-ExpreI saw him. And he's all They ask me did I see the child? Yes,was too late to stop. 1 I've been seeing since. I saw him. But it to see his lifeless body was the last to see him alive. And the first the bumper from inches few a limply sprawled on the pavement of my car. own the Yes, I am the man they now call "Death car driver." I car whose pictures you saw in the daily press. And, yet, a thousand times I wish I were the victim rather than the man who killed him. For he died only once, but I a thousand deaths since -- w x ixcmen by Inland Hill Top Time la an unofficial newspaper published Air Forea Prlntlns Company. Kayarlllc, UUh. in the interest of personnel at Hill Air Forca Base. Utah. Hill Top Times receives the Armed Forces Press Serriee, News BerTica. and the Air Materiel Command Press Service. Material contained In or rnd'ted these services, with the ezception of those marked "copyrighted AFNS or may be reprinted provided proper ereditation ia trlven to the AFP8, tna Air AMC-POpinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of Address all advertisements to the Inland Printing- Company, KaysviUe, Utah. Publisher L. E. ANDERSON s RAPID PROMOTION Mai. Wallace O. Nordenstrom (seated), Commander of the 1906th AACS Squadron at Hill AFB, fills out the final paperwork on James B. Archer, making him a second lieutenant in the AF. Archer was previously an Alc and was commissioned as a result of ROTC completed several years ago at the ""v , University of Oregon. Airman to Officer in One Jump Is Story of AACS Cryptographer waf n his ib at the Hi station when he got tt word about his sister's family, and Mrs. John L. Creamer fj Liberty and their nine child m aere from s ranging 15 years. Their home had co pieteiy burned down during the night and the familv Via re! J caped with their lives. Chard prepared to go to the family's aid and word spread quickly around the fire department of the Creamer's plight! When Chard was ready to go, his At ti An Airman 1c one day and a second lieutenant the next. That's gathered around him what happened recently to James B. Archer, a cryptographer assigned and presented him $120 to help! to tne luuutn aauh squadron at mil At is. vvjonunuea on rage 12) Archer, until the other day, was stationed at the lOOGth's outlying unit at Laramie, Wyo. There he opAt Last erated a cryptograph machine, reHOSPITAL-DOCTO- R ceiving, sending and decoding mesINSURANCE sages. can that be to tailored meet desires and your budget. your Now he is a commissioned officer on his way to communications Co. school at Scott AFB, 111. He will receive nine months training and I. then be assigned communications Associates duties with some AF unit. 34 W. 2d South Atlas BIdg. It happened this way: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Archer entered the AF in June Phone EL 1948. He spent his early service in AACS outfits in the Far East and Write or Phone for Information No Obligation stateside in Massachusetts. Completing his hitch in 1952 he wrong." returned to college at the Univercarry insurance, sure. But who can replace a life? Should sity of Oregon. Archer graduated I visit the parents? See the child laid out? Or coldly disregard the in 1955 with a degree "in political death, the bitter Grief? Will the father, mother hate me? Or science. VAN AM) While at the university he acwould they understand? A sense of moral guilt hangs over me. It a comsecond lieutenant's quired punishes the driver hard and makes him all afraid to face the mission by completing ROTC. Durparents or the lifeless child or anyone. ing this training he was an outCO. Remorse alone cannot clear my conscience. And there I even standing cadet. But the AF wasn't accepting doubt my friends will see my way. I wasn't careless, the policeman men for officer positions in said. I was within the law. But yet, my conscience lives with me ROTC those he as an days. and I with it. And, thinking that, perhaps, the slightest bit of more airman in hisSoold branch AF the of attention on my part could have averted this, will haunt my in hopes of his commission. getting thoughts for every hour I shall live. And no one can deliver me of The picture changed. Several this. weeks ago the paperwork came through and Archer came to Hill AFB for a brief ceremony. Maj. Wallace O. Nordenstrom, 1906th ers walked ahead and bent over his crumpled form. "Call an ambulance," I shouted. "Quick!". I saw the gathering crowd. They all looked at the child. And then at me. Then came police and then the doctor. He looked first at the bloody face and form, then looked away and slowly shook his head. And then I saw the anguished features of a man the father and heard the desperate screamsof a bereaved mother -how can I forget? And when the scene had cleared and I had filed reports at headquarters and the police had cleared me, I stood alone and suddenly knew what I had really done. "Could happen to any of us," a voice behind me said. I felt the sympathetic touch of a policeman's hand. "You were not speeding, nor violating any law. We preferred no charges nor did any witness charge a fault by you. 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