Show A16 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday April ' 6 2003 A 1 HHEkWEATHER Cache Valley outlook Utah oulloolc Forecast for Monday AcCUWeatherxoin National temperatures Temperatures Indicate Friday's high and overnight low to 8 pm toracart tof davtim oondWonr hicMow tomoenturea Eastern Time ‘l £' AtoanyNX J TODAY MONDAY EXTENDED Afeuquetque Anchorage Atlanta BaKhnore Mostly sunny and Mostly doudywHh Mostly cloudy with a SO percent a sight chance of chanceofenow Highs in the snowrtghsnear upper 30e lows near 25 Southwest winds 10-2- 0 mph 20 getting wanner IhrcuioutVw week highs In upper 50s 45andlowsneer Hi lo City Hi Lo Prc Logan 43 20 Msndon 42 29 01 KVNU 43 Lewiston 45 27 Logan Peak 21 23 (trace) 12 WSHsvHle 40 26 02 lip abovo Almanac Lo 27 63 37 76 49 46 32 38 74 50 35 45 24 ' NewOrieene 48 65 34 82 NewYorkCity 41 Phoenix Reno 75 46 Milwaukee Prc Oik 22no 39 21 60 42 23 29 cdy yj:f 10 cdy 84 Sert Antonio San Diego 88cdy rv 82- u 64 Seattle::: SO' Tticson 37-T- 73 WashingtonDC pdyv: n 47 64 dr 1 45 m dr 03 cdy m Bolee-'?'i:- :i sno City--4- 03 sno 90 cdy 28 cdy 27 45 mo 31 31 20 cdy cdy 46 m cdy cdy cdy 27 cdy cdy 05 m cdy cdy 29 72 66 29 48 22 68 35 57 29 81 Houston Kansas City LaeViegae Snow and ice interrupted spring Friday from Michigan to northern New England Severalinches of snow in the region closed hundreds of schools and knocked out power to about 100000 customers Nearly a foot fell in the Adirondacks in upstate New York while farther south ice formed a hard shell on trees can and roads Another storm brought freezing rain to Wisconsin Heavy storms hit parts of Illinois and Indiana bringing wind gusts of more than 60 mph and hail near an inch in diameter in places Rain and some hail fell over southeast Oklahoma and east Tbxas The northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley were cloudy with snow showiers over portions of the Dakotas Nebraska Minnesota and Iowa The and Southeast were dry as were much of the central and southern Plains the lower Rockies lower Great Basin and Southwest Mostly scattered showers hit the Pacific Northwest coast through central California Snow felljn the Cascades and Sierras and in the upper Great Basin and northern Rockies Temperature in the lower 48 states Friday ranged from a high of 83 degrees in Miami to a low of 4 in Frenchville Maine Prc Denver Honolulu By The Associated Press City uncmnm Detroit From the nows wire Local temperatures Chicago HI St Louis mm sum 34 23 25 25 26 149 49 46 43 46 Richfield 45 Rooaavelt 45 SaJtLakeCity 48 Layton Snowbird 23" cdy 020 000 000 020 18 020 25 020 9 18 t-- 14 020 31 7 34 64 sno 011 51 Tboda UtahlMRange 25 000 020 M M 45 46 58 17 SlGaorga Vernal Wendover ZionNP v" ran X M 020 28 020 30 000 tmtrm-mm- NlNiMillllOlTIlllBlDl BmdiMpMai high MpmAmmnm 39 - 10li 1ti for tadmL Mid-Atlan- tic Sunrise: 6:00 am Sunset: 6:54 pm’ At 10 Humidity: 57 percent UV Index: local time In the'medt-um-hig- h eastern sky the brightest star la Aicturua See for yourself the handle of the "Btg Dipper points to thia the Alpha star o( the Bootes constellation Some say this looks to them like a kite'- - ' 4(kw) Conditions: Overcast Visibility: 10 miss pm aatronomyOrocliatanalxom Moon First quarter on April 9 Cache Valleyjorecast provided by Rational WeathecService 300000 veterans were receiving benefits In 1999 Darley was still not on that list (rattling the disease by Darley - Continued from A6 He turned the craft 180 degrees and then reapproached for landing He would have to land using voice instructions from the ground crew Being sighted was too risky himself Yet recognizing someone for standing alone is both complimentary and cruel Shining a spotlight on another for startding alone is a recognition of a certain mettle fortitude and conviction At the same time reminding someone that they stand alone makes them acutely ' Visibility was zero “He (a soldier on the ground) had to tell me whether 1 needed to go up or down faster or slower u Darley explained As Darley landed the ‘copter he approached rapidly almost knocking owr the navigator Another narrow miss So too is it for Darley After flying through the storms of Vietnam piloting his life safely through nearly four decades of Parkinson’s it is just a narrow miss from getting the help from the government which has just recently started to take the link between Parkinson’s and Agent Orange seriously After that electrical flight Darley reflected on the harrowing experience with the They both dripped with sweat Their hands were stiff and aching Instead of dripping with sweat his mouth drips with saliva The disease has incapacitated part of the side of his mouth His hands and limbs still creak and ache And he still reflects about his military experiences recalling that at one time he “swam” in Agent Orange He moved the orange barrels He had hauled them he handled them Agent Orange was used by the military in Vietnam to defoliate trees to expose enemy troops According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs Agent Orange was used on missions from Jan 196S to April 1970 “Shipped in barrels it was a reddisorange-stripe- d liquid” The VA started to recognize the link between the defoliant and disease in 1978 eight years after Dar- h-brown of Vietnam while these soldiers did not die during the conflict bn Vietnamese soil they died because of exposure to the toxic substance aware that they're without support — vulnerable and isolated Darley knows what it is like to ley started noticing symptoms According to the VA by 1999 stand alone Benny Croickett reminded Darley that he was alone in the jungles of Vietnam The moment came like all important moments in life — unexpected and uncertain Story: Darley knelt by his cot and prayed While praying he was' certain he heard footsteps come near him' Not wanting to interrupt his prayers he continued as the person stood momentarily waiting When Darley arose from his prayers he turned around to find no one there He reasoned that whoever saw him had already ' d it back to report that he’d been praying Certainly this was fodder for such godless times as these Darley waited and waited for ridicule He anticipated the harassing Secretly he wanted the conflict so he could find out who high-taile- - that spectator was He thought about the moment but the observer never revealed himself Darley gradually put the incident out of mind Meanwhile lious JSf a rebel- ed 100-perce- first-attem- nt pt 100-perce- nt she said “In fact we don’t have enough graduates for the jobs" she said “Our biggest employer is the state Federal Vocational Rehabilitation System and second biggest employer is the LDS Church Deseret Industries and die Humanitarian Center” The program dropped from 12th to 15th this year likely because the methodologies which measure the ratio of students to faculty members with a doctorate have suffered a (bop in the past year Smart said In addition to offering the program at you" The US Government has also singled out Darley They’ve honored him with medals and accomodations citing him for uncommon bravery and service In what may to be their penultimate reward for Darley before fifty give him a white marble headstone they’ve added him to a long horrible list of veterans who have been exposed to Agent Orange Being a name on that list gives the veteran the right to little more than the confirmation that the bullet they thought they’d dodged 30 years ago was really a boomerang These veterans might be the last casualties of Vietnam a historical asterisk n the footnotes of high-schotextbooks and Time-Lif- e commemorative series that asterisk might have a footnote that explains that while these soldiers did not die during the conflict on Vietnamese soil they died because of exposure to the toxic substance Now many fight battles with disease that eclipsed any time they spent in the sticky jungles of south- Packages Continued from A 1 wm increase in soldiefkiirected mail since the Iraqi war began but said no letters have crossed his desk addressed to an anonymous soldier If it woe to happen the sender of the letter would be contacted he said Though the era of random letters and care packages has ended a new breed of electronic correspondence has emerged The military is now running an service called Operation Dear Abby and collecting donations for care packages online It has also posted an electronic thank you card for US solail diers Army Reserve Capt Kerrie Hurd an assistant public affairs officer at Ft Carson Col said the troops need that JO OFF with quality (rob ban installed Cal today for ifarFwfestonal Optical a free written estimate! We Do It (tight! Diywsl Upafc SMf tostelMsa And Medb Much Haul untKPnnrmmtnf menu rmnrv 1 (435) tx AND NON-- UNTO MAY 39 ca—w 787-821-2 j w the institution has the oldest dis- tance rehabilitation program in the nation In almost every state plus Canada and on military bases 87 stu- dents are enrolled in live interactive online courses with professors throughout the school year Smart said During the summer they live in the dormitories and attend classes at ! ! Logan’s USU campus Charles Salzberg head of the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation which was ranked 16th in the nation by the magazine said all of the faculty members staff and students in the department are pleased to be recognized again this year “In this case the rankings reflect what we have long since known and that is that Utah State University has a national reputation of being among the most prominent universities in the nation in the area of disability research and service” Dr Salzberg said Students when deciding which col-lege to attend commonly refer to these annual rankings Schools are ranked in five areas — business education engineering law and medicine Those rankings are then broken down into smaller disciplines correspondence “Don’t underestimate the impact it I’m a has” she said “I’m big girl And Hook forward to getting j a letter from my parents It’s a huge morale factor” Operation Dear Abby has transmitted more than a million messages toj UJS soldiers since it was established in! Dec 2001 Commander Rudy who manages the program from Washington DCaid the rate of use has escalated since military conflict erupted in the Middle East “It’s remarkable” he said ‘The success (of Operation Dear Abby) has been off the charts” Snail mail and care packages remain limited to the family and friends of US troops who are provided with the direct address to their soldier “Those packages pictures and letters mean a lot” Hurd said “It’s not so much tiie product it’s the feeling” ail Brew-ingt- on ail Make your tubshower and bathroom safer 753-52-80 pibwo WE INSTALL HANDICAP GRAB BARS t 1300 North 400 East Suite 360 Medical Arts Building Regional Logan s—mr i ol east Asia The funny thing is even thpugh ' Crockett singled Darley out as a different sort of religious oddity : and even though the government has told Darley that he must endure Parkinson’s alone and without its help Parley refuses to believe he is alone “My God is with me” iw UJSU have a nearly pass rate on the national license exam Smart said compared to 75 to 80 percent nationally Graduates also enjoy professional placement today to Darley than they ever did during the war: “Your God is with w— Aboveifeature provided by Astro Data Typically this program is allied with medical schools Smart said as professionals are trained to work with people with physical cognitive and psychiatric disabilities Graduates of USU’s Rehabilitation Counseling Program off-the-c- (raove E3 E2 E3 Continued from A3 soldier came to to speak Darley Instead of an quip Crockett admitted that he was the ' one who had seen Darley praying that day Crockett went tell that he couldn't die Darley get incident out of his head free-spirit- tpm Armani frames Crockett EZ3 Rehab Crockett's words mean more These veterans might be the last casualties co-pil- ot --SoUp 00 MX (435) 7BM248 QWNUliQrUATEBBY SftPWoods Enterprise Inc ® |