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Show Utah Valley's Newspaper A Local News Sunday MAY 25, 2008 iw YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS i i i ft it v YOUR NEWSPAPER it- - How do you spell gas relief? ci.. ' " 1 hl mV' iiaMjaiife TIMPANOGOS TAKES STATE r ?" 1 . S- POST WASHINGTON THE $1.50 H;, j Michael S. Rosenwald - u i ONLINE heraldextra.com SPECIAL SECTION . iv (iv rii mi 135 years for Jason y of .com, which helps people find cheap gas (if such a product actually exists). This is Memorial Day weekend, the official start of the summer driving season, when drivers traditionally pay closer atWASHINGTON Toews is the tention to gas prices. This should be Toews' moment, his 15 minutes of fame, his day in the sun, his flash in the pan step right up and choose your cliche. But with gas prices soaring, now topping $4 a gallon, it turns out that every day has become Toews' moment. "It will come up in virtually every conversation when people talk to me," he said. "It does get tiring if I am trying to enjoy a meal. But it's a subject that everyone is talking about. And gas prices are only going to go higher." He cites statistics as if he were reading them off the back of a baseball card. When The Washington Post spoke to him Thursday, he noted that the average price per gallon had gone up 3.5 cents in 15 hours. "Thursday seems to be a pretty popular day to raise prices," Toews said, even when it's not Memorial Day weekend. He's such a gas man See RELIEF, A8 - J I i ) , J' f - 1 CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald Tiiripanogos baseball players storm the field to hug Pitcher Tanner Wolfe after striking out Bingham High's final batter, cinching Timpanogos' 5A state championship title on Saturday. It is the TWolves first state title in baseball since 2005 and their first in the 5A classification. Timpanogos, who won three 4A championships from 2002-05- , went undefeated on its way to the crown, winning five straight playoff games. See Sports for more coverage. Return from Vietnam Fake border Orem man makes trek, befriends the crossing e enemies new outdoor adventure - war-tim- 4 Caleb Warnock DAILY Reed Johnson LOS ANGELES TIMES EL ALBERTO, Mexico - Gun- shots ring out and sirens shriek, mixing with the ragged breath of muddy, panting humans. Suddenly, the full moon sweeping the ground like a searchlight reveals a disturbing scene: a group of illegal immigrants being handcuffed and led away by U.S. Border Patrol agents. Put the U.S. border is 700 miles from this rugged municipal park state, a three-hou- r See CROSSING, A8 INSIDE BRINGS A4 ED&ORIAIS A6 SPORTS B1 WtjUHER B5 OlfR TOWNS - C1 HIGH 66 LOW 50 C3.C4 OBITUARIES LIFESTYLE Partly cloudy ... D1 BUSINESS El WAU STREET 11 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 2!I9 61055 00 More HERALD .1 than 4 1 years after a that changed his life, has changed Gary of Orem once t two days in July Marines Another 70 were wounded. The Marines were attempting to establish a radio relay tower on Hill 362 when they were attacked by North Vietnamese forces, according to operationhaistings. com, which contains an account of the battle. Wanting to return to the site of that battle to honor America's fallen heroes, Campbell organized nine other Marines from around the nation to return to Vietnam last month to once again tackle Hill 362, where his Marine broth- ,. , . - i 1966, Campbell watched 26 fellow die in part of Operation Hastings. ers, as he calls them, died. Campbell and his group left April 26 and returned on May 10. The trip changed him in ways he had not expected. A Purple Heart honoree because he suffered a shrapnel wound in his right leg during that hellish day on Hill 362, Campbell served 13 years as a Marine, another 13 years in the Army, and works today as an Army recruiter. The surprises started on a flight from Hong Kong to Vietnam, he said. A Vietnamese flight attendant slipped him a letter, thanking Campbell and American soldiers for bringing capitalism to Vietnam, changing its destiny and eventually loosening the grip of communism four decades later. "I was absolutely surprised," Campbell said. "1 was blown away." Everywhere the group went, they were met with respect. "There was no anger or hatred," he said. "The former enemy soldiers were not even See VIETNAM, A8 i 1 .. :i J K Top: Gary Campbell ;-- i'" i . of Orem center organized a return to Vietnam for himself and other Marines who fought there in 1966. Here the group is in Long Phu, a village the group protected 41 years ago. Left Campbell met a former enemy at Viet Cong Headquarters, now a museum. "He was a guy who was trying to kill me 40 years ago Campbell said. "He came up and shook my hand and said 'Friends now.' CourtMy of Qary Campbell J |