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Show r Page r y w THE DAILY HERALD, Piwo, Utah, Tuesday, September 24, 19 B6 Group of atomic veterans wan ts By JON URE For Ths Associated Press EH zero. Carter felt sunburned. medical and other compensation. involved in nuclear weapons tests. So it was a shock for Carter when While sweeping the blast zone, Those who kept their records are the largest veterans organization in Carter saw the remains of caged being compensated. He also is embroiled in an effort the world, the 3 million member animals that had been charred American Legion, refused to supalive. He also said he saw people to force the military to release eviin a chain-lin- k stockade. Their skin dence that there were human port the drive for the medal at its national convention in August in was peeling off and their hair was experiments in the arms race. out. falling "The explosion told me 1 was of explosion told me I part of the most evil thing I have I in my life." evil thing have ever ever seen in my life," Carter says. And it marked the beginning of the Bob Carter, strife that has filled his life since. NAAV Utah Carter suffers chronic cardiovascular ailments, high blood presof sure, has the beginnings Salt Lake City. leukemia and has chronic spinal Now Carter, 57, and the comCarter, commander of the Utah problems. Some of the ailments mander of the Utah chapter of the are covered by Veterans AdminisNational Association of Atomic NAAV, feels betrayed, but Stephen tration programs, others are not; Veterans (NAAV), is allied with Sliss, NAAV's project chairman for the medal, was outraged. Sliss sufbut for Gterte? twite are because he about a million other "atomic vetillnesses he makes too much money for VA erans" who say it is time they were fers radiation-relate- d caused were to a by benefits. exposure says for the grisly parts they recognized nuclear reactor at the McMurdo Since leaving the Air Force, he played in the Cold War. Sound Station in Antarctica in 1962. has battled with the Department of Other veterans organizations "I remember little pieces of Defense to obtain his personnel have backed them in their efforts files which mysteriously disapglowing snow all around the place and most support a current proposand greenish light, lime-whipeared along with numerous files al by the NAAV to establish an of other veterans who were Atomic Radiation Service Medal specks the size of eraser heads," says Sliss, a Californian who for these soldiers. exposed to nuclear blasts. It would extend to all veterans served in the Navy. "I didn't really Without the records, they cannot prove they were present at the who have been exposed to radiatogether until put tests and they are being denied tion, not just those who were SALT LAKE CITY Before dawn on July 5, 1957, a airman from Utah stood "with his Air Force buddies jut eight miles from ground zero awaiting the detonation of the Shot Hood hydrogen bomb. While the others shielded their eyes. Bob Carter watched the six times more powexplosion erful than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima. The shock wave blew the horrified and confused teen-age- r 40 feet backward into a mountainside at the Nevada test range. He regained consciousness to discover he had a bloody nose and a concussion. The ground was so hot Jie could barely stand on it. "1 felt I was burning alive. I felt like . I was being ccxiked," says Carter, who now resides in "After the shot, my coveralls were cracked and burned, there was so much heat." Carter and other service members part of the experiment on and psychological physical responses to a nuclear explosion were marched toward ground was part seen "The most the convention is it had to do with medals," says Phil Budahn, spokesman for the national American Legion. "The U.S. military has given medals for valor, battlefield heroism, bravery and accomplish- Sliss was sent to the convention by the California Department of the American Legion with its endorsement of the proposal, offering it up for approval from the ; national organization. He also brought endorsements from the Clinton administration and other veterans groups, including the Disabled American Veterans, Purple Hearts, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Blinded Veterans Association, Vietnam Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Am Vets. But that didn't cut it with the American Legion's national leadership. "Not needed," is what they told Sliss. They said there was no evidence that anyone suffered from radiation during the tests or on nuclear submarines and power plants. He was also told there is no problem with radiation exposure and the Department of Veteran Affairs has no responsibility to take care of atomic veterans. American Legion leaders sympathize but are concerned that the medal would become a token only. "The problem with that issue at the chapter commander c. ore rec oemmon te two-and-t- 'mm fte to ment "They don't decorate people because something bad happened to someone. We don't oppose the idea. The Legion considers itself in the forefront of those working on behalf of atomic vets. We are doing everything we can to help them but one of the concerns we would have is the idea that you give them a medal and then forget them. "We have not forgotten them and we are not going to forget them." ' The Department of Defense has studied the proposal and determined there will be no medal issued, says USAF Lt. Col. Deborah Bosick, defense department spokeswoman. Rosen argues that the military' in the past has issued peacetime medals, so why not one for atomic veterans? 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