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Show Thursday, December 4, 2008 0 R E M TIMES PageS Celebrations Mr 7 1 . ft W V- J:.if& Gary & Rhea Lewis 50th Anniversary The children and grandchildren grand-children of Gary H. and Rhea Wanlass Lewis are pleased to announce their 50th wedding anniversary on December 6, 2008. Gary and Rhea were married mar-ried in the Manti LDS Temple 50 years ago on December 6, 1958. They are the parents of four daughters: Lynette. Lorraine, Lor-raine, Leslie and Gerilyn and one son: Gregory Glen. They have eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Gary was born in Lehi to Lynn and Beulah Lewis. Rhea's parents are Glen and Alta Wanlass. Gary and Rhea have been involved in many church and civic activities throughout their marriage. They currently serve as workers in the Mount Timpanogos LDS Temple. They have celebrated their anniversary with their family on several occasions the past few months but feel free to deliver congratulations to them for this wonderful milestone in their lives. Jewell Hutchison 80th Birthday Jewell Rogers Hutchison, wife of Donald H Hutchison and lifelong resident of Lindon, turned 80 on December 3. She is the proud mother of 5 children: Annette Hutchison, Colleen Bills, Scott Hutchison, Elaine Littleford and Steve Hutchison. She has 15 grandchildren an 11 great-grandchildren. We love you! Happy 80th birthday!!! Celebrations Wedding, anniversary, missionary and other announcements must be turned into the paper by Monday at 2 p.m. of the week you would like the notice to be printed. Call 756-7669 for details ore-mail ore-mail jesplin heraldextra. com. Garrett Luke Mike and Chris Garrett, of Orem, are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Gina Lyn to Daniel Joseph Luke, son of Charles and Parti Luke of Provo. The marriage will be December 5, 2008 in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. Gina is a graduate of Mountain View High School and The Paul Mitchell School. Dan is a graduate of Timpview High School and is attending Utah Valley University studying Construction Con-struction Management. They plan to make their home in Provo. Local senator stands off McCarthys shadow merican soldiers wno encoun' 1 1 terecI ordinal (J Soviet soldiers v late in the war U U and postwar report finding them very congenial. American officers of-ficers who encountered Soviet officers sensed pretty quickly that the next war (which turned out to be the cold war) would be against the Soviets. AD Americans learned soon enough that indeed, in-deed, the Soviet Union, and its ideology, Communism, posed a major threat to the free world. By the early 1950s, the American public also became aware of the aggressive plans of the Soviets to overthrow over-throw democratic governments govern-ments worldwide. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the junior senator from Wisconsin, seizing on the public's alarm, made many public and sensational sen-sational accusations of Communist Com-munist sympathy against prominent national political leaders, as well as high-ranking military officers. McCarthy's McCa-rthy's allegations and abuses resulted in an investigation of Senate censure charges against McCarthy. So widespread were na- tional sympathies for McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's efforts to ferret out Communists in high places that no member of congress was willing to risk his reputation repu-tation to be appointed to the censure committee. Why, then, not sacrifice the farmer-senator from Utah, Arthur V. Watkins? Watkins held a law degree from Columbia University and had practiced law in Salt Lake City until his health obliged him to take up turkey tur-key ranching and farming in Utah County, though he also served as a local judge and as president of the LDS Sharon Sha-ron Stake. (He also founded the Voice of Sharon, at the time sort of a local church newspaper; it evolved into what later became the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times.) In Watkins' words, "Seldom "Sel-dom in the Nation's history has there been an issue which has been so divisive and has aroused such unreasoning emotions. Depths as dark and fetid as ever stirred on this continent came to public attention. As the contro versy grew, it challenged the integrity, dignity, and effectiveness of the Senate, and of the entire Federal establishments es-tablishments aside from the courts" (see Arthur Watkins' account, Enough Rope, The inside story of the censure of senator Joe McCarthy by his colleagues the controversial hearings that signaled the end of a turbulent career and a fearsome era in American public life, Prentice-Hall, 1969). Watkins was sympathetic to McCarthy's general objectives objec-tives to "expose communists and communist fellow travelers travel-ers in Government"; Watkins' Wat-kins' concerns centered in McCarthy's tactics. The degree of public scorn which Watkins suffered, expressed in thousands of "vicious and inflammatory remarks" in thousands of daily dai-ly postcards and letters from concerned (but polarized and uninformed) McCarthy admirers ad-mirers (especially a number of veterans), caused Watkins deep personal distress and in time nearly broke his already delicate health; even some of his own relatives and many Latter-day Saints attacked him. Some few letters of support sup-port of the committee did arrive from "a better class of people." During the hearings, Watkins Wat-kins succeeded in boldly quashing a series of improper outbursts and challenges by McCarthy, a tactic that had come to characterize McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's style in stirring up public sympathy. The Senate Select Committee's hearings proceeded to a censure: the Senate vote was 67 yeas and 22 nays. McCarthy voted "present." The "Report on Resolution to Censure" is dated 8 November 1954. History proved the Senate's Sen-ate's censure correct; Senator Sena-tor Watkins received praise from respected people in high places, though his commendable com-mendable service probably cost him a third term in the Senate. As it turned out, McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, now a confirmed alcoholic, was close to death. On 2 May 1957, he died of hepatitis. The McCarthy hearings are an instructive study in the dangers of extremism, especially at the present time when political decisions and military actions are so imminent im-minent and many political voices so shrill. Leave rumors circulate Staff Sgt. Brock Jones In June, when I chose to wait until December to take leave, I felt like the pages of the calendar would crush me before my time for a break would arrive. I never thought the day NOTES would come when I FROM IRAQ would get to leave Baghdad behind for a little while, go back to the cold air of the Rocky Mountains and the people I love most who I haven't seen for seven months. But the weight is finally lifting and it will soon be my turn to take five, to recharge my batteries with my wife and daughter and the rest of those I love. When we deployed in April 2003, we left Colorado with no idea how long we were going to be gone. No one was thinking about getting home because we were too concentrated on getting to the fight and dealing with more pressing matters, like the questions of looming combat. All that soon changed after the first month had passed and everyone began to think about going home. Rumors about when that would happen circulated circu-lated like tiny suffocating sandstorms. Someone would mention that they had heard somewhere that we would be home before a certain date. When the , date came and went and we were still in western Iraq, another rumor would replace re-place it like the next bullet in the magazine. maga-zine. We slept next to and danced with and battled rumors constantly. Around September 2003, we started catching wind about a new leave program pro-gram where we would get to go home for a two-week break. The more skeptical skepti-cal among us thought it was another nasty rumor that would get our hopes up and then leave us with nothing. But for the first time of the deployment, rumor became reality when the first few guys from our battery left for home. A short time after the first group left, I was on my way back to Utah. At that time, the leave program was so new, the Army hadn't worked out all the logistical kinks of getting soldiers home and then back again safely and efficiently. The only guidance I received the first time I took leave from Iraq was to take at least one half -empty duffel bag so when I got to Kuwait, I would have somewhere convenient to put my helmet and body armor. We also didn't know how long the whole trip would take from the time we left the unit to the time we got back, so we said hearty goodbyes and packed for every possibility. pos-sibility. The only thing we did know for sure was that the Army would get us to Baltimore, and then we would have to pay our own way to wherever we were going, but that didn't bother us too much because we were going home. Things have changed over the course of five years, and the leave process has become both more effective and more efficient. Most soldiers now go on leave with little more than what's on their backs, a hygiene kit for shaving and cleaning up a little, maybe a change of socks and underwear. When you get to Kuwait, there's a system in place that allows al-lows you to leave your helmet and body We slept next to and danced with and battled rumors constantly. armor there instead of lugging it across the world with you. The Army now pays for your way all the way to the airport closest to your home and back again. The only things that aren't decided for you is how to spend those short two weeks at home, and how to say goodbye again to those you love at the end of two-weeks. Some things just can't be made any less difficult no matter how much planning and preparation go into them. Soon I'll pack up a small bag with only the essentials (no duffel bags this time for me) and I'll board a plane bound for home. When I land in Salt Lake City, I'm sure I will shake inside as I walk toward the escalators that will take me down to where my wife and daughter will be waiting. We will hug and kiss and spend a dense and inseparable two weeks together being a family again. 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