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Show fir- Page Ten - The Springville Herald - May 7, 2003 OBITUARIES Dill Phillips Melvin Bill Phillips, age 77, passed away Friday, May 2, 2003 in Provo, Utah, after a long struggle strug-gle with Parkinson's disease. Bill was born in Springville on December De-cember 9, 1925, the only child of William J. Phillips and Florence Simkins. He attended Springville schools and graduated from Springville Sprin-gville High in 1946. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corp as a diesel mechanic. He worked at the family owned business, Phillips Garage, in Springville as a mechanic me-chanic and parts man. Later he worked at U.S. Steel for 33 years as an instrument repairman. Upon retirement he was a salesman for Naylor Auto in Provo for six years. Bill married Mary Jane Reece on March 3, 1950. Bill was a High Priest in the LDS Church. He loved his family, tinkering with automobiles and gardening. He was well known for his unique sense of humor. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mary Jane; son James Jefferie (Mary V.) of Kaysville; two daughters, Lizabeth P. Braun of Salt Lake City and Allison Parrish (Val) of Taylorsville; three grandsons, four granddaughters; granddaugh-ters; two step-granddaughters and one great-granddaughter. The family would like to thank the staff at Hobble Creek Care Center for their kind and compassionate care for the last 2 12 years. Also, a special thank you to the 7th floor and intermediate interme-diate care nurses at Utah Valley Hospital for their care and support to the family. Herman II. Suter Jr. Herman H. Suter Jr. Herman H. Suter Jr. passed away peacefully in his sleep on Friday, May 2, 2003. He was born May 17, 1914, in Logan, Utah, to Herman H. Suter Sr. and Eliza Zbendin. He attended school in Salt Lake City, where he was a very good student. From an early age he learned the value of hard work. He worked with his father and also on his uncle's farm in Logan Canyon. Can-yon. He bought his first car when he was thirteen, and there started a life-long passion for fixing anything with a motor. He then went to work in the mining industry. indus-try. Later, he served his country for four years as a Military Policeman. Po-liceman. There was born another of his passions, which was Harley Davidson Motorcycles. One of his jobs was to escort heads of the military, and he once met and escorted President Truman. Part of his time in the military' was spent in Africa. He was honorably discharged from the Army, with many medals commemorating his service. After, he became a policeman po-liceman in Puyallup, WA. He then returned to Utah to work in the mines. He did so until for health reasons he retired. Herman then went back to school and got a degree in small engine repair. He worked for an equipment equip-ment rental shop in Salt Lake City, and was known as the man who could fix anything. So came the saying "take it to Her, he can fix it." Herman married Cornalia Johanna Standaar in 1967. She was the love of his life and they enjoyed many trips to Fish Lake, dancing and gardening. He quickly quick-ly accepted Cory's children and grandchildren as his own and became "Grandpa Herman." He lovingly cared for Cory until she passed away in 1993. ' One of Herman's joys was telling people his life stories. He had some great ones to tell such as riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle to the World's Fair in Seattle, WA. He had great fishing stories, also about working on his uncle's farm and working in the family dairy business in the late 1920s. ' Herman loved life and would not sit still for very long. Every morning he would be up early and be one of the first ones to arrive at the senior citizen's center in Springville to play cards. Bingo will not be the same there without Li ' f' r hi M. Bill Phillips Services will be Wednesday, May 7, at 1 p.m. at the LDS Second Ward Chapel, 400 S. 1700 East, Springville. A slewing will be held at the church on Wednesday Wednes-day from noon to 1 p.m. Interment Inter-ment will be in (he .Springville Evergreen Cemetery with military honors accorded by the American Legion. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wheelermortu-ary.com. www.wheelermortu-ary.com. "Together Again" him calling out those numbers. He loved his friends there and had a smile thai made everyone feel welcome. Herman is survived by a brother, Roy Suter, Salt Lake City; sisters, Florance Suter Olsen and Dolly Suter Iknzon, both of Salt Lake City. He is also survived sur-vived by five children: Cory Nebbeling of Utrech, Holland; Beppy Robhs of Orem; John de Haas, Mapleton; Joe de Haas, Las Vegas, NV; Hans de Haas, Westminister, West-minister, CA; and many grandchildren grand-children and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Cory; a sister, La von Suter Corcimigilo; brothers, Fdwin Suter and Ray Suter; and one granddaughter, Peggy Humes. The family would like to thank the staff at Orchard Park Care Center for their loving care of Herman. Our dad, grandpa and brother, we have loved you and will miss you greatly! The life lessons you taught us will live on. Graveside services will be held Thursday, May 8 at 11 a.m. in the Springville Evergreen Cemetery. Cem-etery. There will be a viewing held at Wheeler Mortuary, 211 E. 200 South in Springville on Thursday Thur-sday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the services. In case of inclement weather, services will be held at the mortuary. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wheelermortu-ary.com. 0tED$XEGIP Q&DOIItO That means that you can call s on me to fill your insurance f needs with the coverage you want and at the lowest Karen Snow possible cost. . Farmers Insurance Group special- 25 Last 200 oOUtn izes in Auto, Fire, life and Com- Springville, UT mercial insurance and is famous (801)489-8000 for fast, fair, friendly claims service. ser-vice. I'd like to meet you. Why not give me a call today. I think you'll be glad you did. (S Msm by Dr. Earl Tilford Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) was the most impressive impres-sive use of combined arms to achieve a decisive victory in recent military history. Only Operation Just Cause, the hydra-like "take down" of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in . December 1989 came close to demonstrating what . superbly trained and equipped forces can accomplish accom-plish in modern warfare. Most notably, land forces achieved dominant maneuver not only in the Iraqi deseret-where deseret-where this is to be expected-but expected-but also in urban warfare; and that is unprecedented. Ground forces also did something some-thing air power alone cannot do short of wreaking massive damage on infrastructure and civilians the kind of collateral collater-al damage associated with warfare of annihilation-they affected regime change, doing so rapidly, decisively and with a minimum of bloodshed. Almost a week before President George W, Bush declared combat operations in Iraq over on Friday, Apr. 25, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld summarily fired Army Secretary Thomas Thom-as White for not toeing the Rumsfeld line that precision strikes combined with lighter forces must be the wave of the future. The aftermath of a clear demonstration of the continuing need for robust and hard hitting battlefield steel implicit in the seventy-ton seventy-ton M1A2 Abrams tank seems an ironic time for Rumsfeld to rid himself of a service secretary who advocated advo-cated a viewpoint confirmed by what Rumsfeld touted as "a military achievement without precedence in modern mod-ern warfare": a three-week campaign from Kuwait to victory in Baghdad. Certainly, air power played a key role in OIF. Once again airmen demonstrated demon-strated the marvelous accuracy accura-cy inherent in aerially-delivered precision guided munitions. muni-tions. This capability provides pro-vides enormous leverage by multiplying the advantages of high-tech weaponry offers when coupled with innovative innova-tive leadership, realistically trained personnel and-above-all-a strategy appropriate to the war at hand. In OIF the armed forces of the United States left no doubt about what they can do by taking full advantage of the capabilities each service brings to the battlefield. While diverse challenges confront the United States as the first quarter of this century centu-ry unfold, one constant can be identified. Regimes like those of Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein survive with land forces. They sustain themselves with conventional forces most often composed of outdated tanks, aging armored personnel carriers and tube artillery, along with "special security" forces--the twenty-first century equivalent equiva-lent of Hitler's SS and Storm Troopers-and small air forces. With a base sticker price of $25 million for an average fighter-plane without the really high-tech options, air forces in these countries tend to be small and obsolescent: perhaps useful for intimidat- 1 I If wMm ing neighboring countries but so outclassed by US air power that flying equates to dying. That leaves land forces as the major conventional conven-tional challenge facing the US military in place like North Korea, Syria, Iran and Cuba. Within the Pentagon the most adamant advocates of "air centric" strategy remain convinced that quick victories result from precision strikes that destroy "critical nodes" at the "vital centers" of the communications and power networks. What they miss is that heavy forces, even those made up of obsolescent former Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers, can and will pose a serious threat to lightly armed forces. forc-es. The better solution might be to find ways to rapidly deploy heavy forces, like Abrams tanks, M24 Bradley fighting vehicles and, yes, the now-canned Crusader artillery system to even the most distant battlefields. The technology is available avail-able in rapid sealift platformsvessels plat-formsvessels that could move a brigade across oceans at speeds in excess of sixty knots. The key to operational success is to get into the fight quickly and with overwhelming overwhelm-ing power. In the decade following the brilliant success of Operation Oper-ation Desert Storm, much of which derived from American Ameri-can air power, the Army and the Air Force entered a bitter contest for resources and , missions. To fully understand inter-service squabbling, one would have to have had two children below the age of five and, as every parent knows, strong parenting is the key to controlling the sandbox. From the "highest levels" down, the Clinton administration adminis-tration demonstrated a lack of adult leadership. In the Pentagon, Clinton's, weak-willed weak-willed civilians,, overly focused fo-cused on political correctness rather than combat capabilities, capabili-ties, wielded spaghetti-like rods in their quest to further the Revolution in Military Affairs. Thankfully, Rumsfeld and his cohorts are not of their ilk. Hopefully, however, the Secretary will appreciate the" lessons of history, the experience experi-ence of all his service leaders and the notion that in the future getting it about right is about the best we can do. Dr. Earl H. Tilford, Jr., professor of history, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Alabama before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1969. OTC 0, 0 0 Packages $1. 50 Letters $1.00 Large packages $2 Packages in by 4 p.m. weekdays delivered to the MTC the same day. No balloon bouquets. Flowers must be boxed up. 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