Deceased: MSG Howard William Walker died February 19th. He
was Canadian-born and served three tours in Vietnam,
all in 1/6. He later served in Berlin.

Several members have EMailed me and want their EMails available for
other members. As of now the list is:

Name                       EMail Address               Era
========================   ========================== ==============
Jan Milles                 janmilles@hotmail.com       'Nam and Berlin
Charles Farrell            cturkfarrell@aol.com        Berlin '68-69
William Zirkel             ziirkel@earthlink.net       Berlin '57-59
James Porter               ms8x60s@yahoo.com           Vietnam '68-69
Gary Kirsten               garykirsten@snet.net        Berlin '53-55
John Frye                  JFrye13@tampabay.rr.com     Berlin '70-74
CSM Stanley Thornburgh     Stanley39us@yahoo.com       Berlin
Charles McDonald           cmcd5052@sbcglobal.net      Berlin '67-69
CSM Mike Foreman           mandbforeman@aol.com
Thomas Lynn                lynn9493@bellsouth.net
Don Wilson                 donniew32@verizon.net       Berlin '53-55
James Sim                  Simj@Comcast.net            Berlin '62-63
Lawrence Simonson          vikingls36@yahoo.com        Berlin '57-60
Lt. Col. Todd Mercer       todd-mercer@us.army.mil     Germany 87-89
Peter Carroll              gmwh@epix.net
Dr. Virgil Likness         vlikness@yahoo.com          Berlin '55-56
Danny Brosnan              dbrosnan@cox.net            Berlin '51-53 & '60-62
LTC Lynn D. Baker          whiteriverwoodturning@yahoo.com 1/6 Vietnam
Harry L. Payne             jlhlpayne@att.net          Berlin '51-54
Clark Cottrell             ccott2@zoomtown.com         Berlin '67-68
Lawrence Gloe              gloel@ipbiloxi.com          Berlin '77-80

Congrats to the Navy Seals who killed Osama bin Laden. In the World
Trade Center I lost someone, Bill Abrahamson, with whom I worked as a
programmer in the 1970s. This will have to do for pay-back.

Colonel Eifler, who was commander of 1/6 in Iraq, informed me that 1/6
is reactivated at Fort Bliss. 4/6 is also reactivated.

In November, 2009, Berlin celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of
the Wall. I wish I could have been there. Hopefully I can make the 25th
anniversary in 2014. Between June and August, 2011, they are celebrating
the building of the Wall. I'll pass on that one. When I served in Berlin
in 1968-69, the Wall was mostly brick. In the early 70s, the East Germans
changed it to concrete slabs.

Member Clark Cottrell sent me an extensive list that someone went to a
great measure to compile. In using it, Clark found that he is eligible
for home care under the VA's Aid and Attendance Program. Following is
the list:

Appeals: http://www.warms.vba.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1ch05.doc
Board of Veterans Appeals: http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Commission: http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Draft National Plan: http://www1.va.gov/cares/page.cfm?pg=105
Center for Minority Veterans: http://www1.va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/
Center for Veterans Enterprise: http://www.vetbiz.gov/default2.htm
Center for Women Veterans: http://www1.va.gov/womenvet/
Clarification on the changes in VA healthcare for Gulf War Veterans: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum1/HTM/000016.htm1
Classified Records - American Gulf War Veterans Association: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/FORUM18/HTML/000011.htm1
Compensation for Disabilities Associated with Gulf war Service: http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/part6%20/ch07.doc
Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page: http://www.va.gov/
Directory of Veterans Service Organizations: http:/www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view
Disability Examinations Worksheets Index, Comp: http://www.vba.va.gov.bln21/Benefits/exams/index.htm
Due Process: http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch02.doc
Duty to Assist: http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch01.doc
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
Emergency, Non-emergency, and Fee Basis Care: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadoes/fedben.pdf
Environmental Agents: http://www1.va.gov/environagents/
Environmental Agents M10: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/viewpublications/ViewPublication.asp?
pub_ID=1002
Establishing Combat Veteran Eligibility: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_315
Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Veterans with potential
exposure to depleted uranium (DU): http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHandbook1303122304.DOC and
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/VIEWPublications.asp?pub_ID=1158
Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet: http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DepletedUranium
FAQSheet.doc
Evaluation Protocol for Non-Gulf War Veterans with potential exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU)
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHANDBOOKNONGW130340304.DOC
Fee Basis, Priority for Outpatient Medical Services and Inpatient Hospital Care http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublications.asp?pub_ID=206
Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents 2005: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf or
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/current_benefits.htm
Forms and Records Request: http://www.va.gov/vaforms/
General Compensation Provisions: http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter11_subchaptervi_htm1
Geriatrics and Extended Care: http://www1.va.gov/geriatricshg/
Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG http://www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/mus/mus_base.htm
Guide to Gulf War Veteran's Health: http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/VH1gulfwar.pdf
Gulf War Subject Index: http://www1.va.gov/GULFWAR/page.cfm?pg=7&template=main&letter=A
Gulf War Veteran's Illnesses Q&As: http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWIllnessesQandAs1B1041.pdf
Hearings: http://www.warms.vba.va.gov//admin21/m21_1/mr/part/ch04.doc
Homeless Veterans: http://www1.va.gov/homeless/
HSR&D Home: http:www.hsrd.research.va.gov/
Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P Exams: http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/exams/index.htm
Ionizing Radiation: http://www1.va.gov/irad/
Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA: http://www.vba.va.gov/EFIF/
M10 for spouses and children: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1007
M10 Part III Change 1: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1008
M21-1 Table of Contents: http://www.warms.vha.va.gov/M21_1.htm/
Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings: http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38CFR/BOOKC/PART4/S4_130.DOC
Mental Health Program Guidelines: http://www1.warms.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublications.asp?pub_ID=1094
Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Centers: http://www.mirece.med.va.gov/
MS (Multiple Schlerosis Centers of Excellence: http://www..va.gov/ms/about.asp
My Health e Vet: http://www..myhealth.va.gov/
NASDVA.COM: http://nasdva.com/
National of State Directors: http.www.nasdva/com/
National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention:
http://www.nchpdp.med.va.gov/postdeploymentlinks.asp
Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings:
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38cfr/bookc/part4/s4%5F124a.doc
OMI (Office of Medical Inspector): http://www.omi.cio.med.va.gov/
Online VA Form 10-10EZ: http://www.1010ez.med.va.gov/sec/vba/1010EZ/
Parkinson's Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders:
http://www1..va.gov/resdev/funding/solicitations/docs/aprkinsons.pdf and
http://www1.va.gov/padrecc/
Peacetime Disability Compensation: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/
egibin/getdoc.cgi?dbname-browse_use&docid=Cite+38USC1131
Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteri_htm1 and
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapterii_htm1 and
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteriii_htm1
Persian Gulf Registry: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1003
This program is now referred to as Gulf War Registry Program (to include Operation
Iraqi Freedom) as of March 7, 2005: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1232
Persian Gulf Registry Referral Centers: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1006
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Research 1999 Annual Report to Congress: http://www1.va.gov/resdev/1999_Gulf_War_Veterans'_Illnesses_Appendices.doc
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Research 2002 Annual Report to Congress: http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/gulf_war_2002/GulfWarRpt02.pdf
Phase I PGR: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1004
Phase II PGR: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1005
Policy Manual Index: http://www.va.gov/publ/direc/eds/edsmps.htm
Power of Attorney: http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr//part1/ch03.doc
Project 112 (Including Project SHAD): http.www1.va.gov/shad/
Prosthetics Eligibility: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=337
Public Health and Environmental Hazards Home Page: http://www.vethealth.cio.med.va.gov/
Public Health/SARS: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/SARS/
Publications Manuals: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/publications.cfm?Pub=4
Publications and Reports: http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/pubs_individual.cfm?webpage=gulf_war.htm
Records Center and Vault Homepage: http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/default.htm1
Records Center and Vault Site Map: http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/sitemap.htm1
Request for and Consent to Release of Information from Claimant's Records: http:www.forms.va.gov/va/Internet/VARF/getformharness.asp?formName=3288-form.xft
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses April 11, 2002: http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/Minutes_April112002.doc
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses: http://www1.va.gov./rac-gwvi/docs/ReportandRecommendations_2004.pdf
Research and Development: http://www.appc1.va.gov/resdev/programs/all_programs.cfm
Survivor's and Dependents' Educational Assistance: http://access/gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partiii_chapter35_htm1
Title 38 Index Parts 0-17: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=
1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfrv1_02.tpl
Title 38 Index Part 18: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?/sid=
1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfrv2_02.tpl
Title 38 Index Part 3 Adjudication Subpart A "Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation":
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f
8801bc9b3dc&tpl=ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfr_main_02.tpl
Title 38 Pensions, bonuses & Veterans Relief (also A,A $ 3.317 Compensation for
certain disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses found here): http://ecfr.gpo
access.gov/cgi/t/text/ text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&
tpl=ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfr3_main_02.tpl
Title 38 Part 4-Schedule for Rating Disabilities Subpart B-Disability Ratings:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=ab764afd195c84a49a
2067dbbcf95c0&rgn=div6&view=text&node=38:1.0.1.1.5.2&idno=38
Title 38$4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of
the individual, Part A "Schedule for Rating Disabilities Subpart A" General
Policy in Rating: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idxc=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b
510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&rgn= div&&view=text&node=38.1.0.1.1.5.1.96.11&jdno=38
U. S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims: http://www.vetapp.gov/
VA Best Practice Manual for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): http://www.avapl.org/pub/PTSD%20Manual%20final%206.pdf
VA Fact Sheet: http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/gwfs.htm1
VA Health Care Eligibility: http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/home/hecmain.asp
VA Instituting Global Assessment of Function (GAF): http://www.avapl.org/gaf/gaf.htm1
VA Life Insurance Handbook A-Chapter 3: http://www.insurance.va.gov/inForceGLiSite/GLIhandbook/glibookletch3.htm#310
VA Loan Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans: http://valoans.com/va_facts_limits.cfm
VA MS Research: http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
VA National Hepatitis C Program: http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/
VA Office of Research and Development: http://www1.va.gov/resdev/
VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War: http://www.va.gov/OAA/pocketcard/gulfwar.asp
VA WMD EMSHG: http://www1.va.gov/emshg/
VA WRIISC-DC: http://www.va.gov/WRIISC-DC/
VAOIG Hotline Telephone Number and Address: http://www.va.gov/oig/hotline/hotline3.htm
Vet Center Eligibility - Readjustment Counseling Service: http://www/va.gov/rcs/Eligibility.htm
Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page: http://vba.va.gov/
Veterans Legal and Benefits Information: http://valaw.org/
VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/
VHA Programs - Clinical Programs & Initiatives: http://www1.va.gov/health_benefits/page.cfm?pg=13
http://webmaila.juno.com/webmail/new/UrlBlockedError.aspx
VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group Home Page: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/
VHI Guide to Gulf War Veterans A-(tm) Health: http://www1.va.gov/vhi_ind_study/gulfwar/istudy/index.asp
Vocational Rehabilitation: http://.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/
Vocational Rehabilitation Subsistence: http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/InterSubsistencefy04.doc
VONAPP online: http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp
WARMS- 38 CFR Book C: http://warms.vba.va.gov/bookc.htm1
Wartime Disability Compensation: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=
Cite=38USC1110
War-Related illness and Injury Study Center - New Jersey: http://www.wri.med.va.gov/
Welcome to the GI Bill Web Site: http://www.gibill.va.gov/
What VA Social Workers Do: http://www1.va.gov/socialwork/page.cfm?pg+3
WRIISC Patient Eligibility: http://www.illegion.org/va1.htm1

The above was all hand-typed. I have no doubt there are more than a few errors. If you come across some, either contact me at the address at the top of the first page or call me at 727-563-9362. If you question one of the Title 38 websites, give me a minute to take two Tylenol. The above material should be helpful for vets of all eras. The Army Times of April 25 mentioned that the national unemployment rate is 9%, but the rate for veterans aged 20-24 is 24%. Current era vets should also think of using the GI Bill to get a degree. I recently saw a report that said that people with a bachelor degree have an unemployment rate of 4%. You have the best GI Bill available to you. Take advantage of it and enhance your chances of landing a good job in this sad economy. Also get yourself into the best university in which you can.

The March 14 issue of the Army Times mentioned the Army Emergency Relief Campaign, which assists families of those on active duty. This not only
assists the Regular Army, but also reservists and national guard. If any one would like to contribute to this campaign, you may do so at the
following address:

The Cold War Victory Medal has been reintroduced in Congress. As usual, the Defense Department is opposed to it. It isn't in the Defense Bill
that passed the House. Hopefully it will be in the bill passed by the Senate. Washington tried to appease us during the Clinton Administration
with a Cold War certificate that was signed by a Clinton appointee who was a draft dodger.

There is a new rule for awarding the Purple Heart. It now includes con-
cussions caused by IEDs.

I have a website for those Berlin Vets. It is a website for the East German secret police, the Stasi. It is www.bstu.bund.de and it has
sections in English. Thank your blessings that you don't have any connections with this data. The Stasi was every bit as bad as the Gestapo.
It is just interesting to read. If you read it and see the reference to 'IM's', they were ordinary citizens of East Germany who were on the Stasi payroll to spy on their neighbors. While the Wall was up, the East Germans and their Soviet bosses had about 8 labor camps for Germans and were building 5 more when the Wall fell. Most of those camps had the people working without masks and they got their lungs choked with the byproducts of the products they were making. Many died in months.

Member Wayne Mueller, 93, wonders if he is the oldest living member of the Sixth. Could be.

The Spring Edition of On Patrol, published by the USO, has an article on Frank Buckles, the last WWI vet to die. In it, they mentioned two things
of which I was unaware. The first was that in the First World War he sailed to Europe on the Carpathia, the ship that rescued the survivors of
the Titanic in April, 1912. The second was that he was a POW in WWII.

On May 2, the president awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to two
Korean War vets. I'll have their citations in the next newsletter.

Just seven short years after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the
broadcaster's reporting "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable," and
President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, Columbia University is
bestowing upon Al-Jazzera its top journalism prize. Good grief.

I took my Biology exam last Friday. I was asked to name two things
commonly found in cells. Apparently "Democrats" and "Republicans" were not the correct answers.

Tennessee, the "second-fattest" state, according to a recent foundation
report, continues to pay for obese Medicaid recipients to have bariatric
surgery at an average cost of $2,000, but to deny coverage for an over-
weight person to consult, even once, with a dietician.

Bill Clinton has revealed that he now supports same-sex marriage, even
though he opposed it during his presidency. To be fair, during his
presidency, he also opposed his own marriage.

The Wizard of Oz movie is now 72 years old. Today if Dorothy were to
encounter men with no brains, no hearts and no courage, she wouldn't be
in Oz. She'd be in congress!

If you can't afford a doctor, go to an airport. You'll get a free x-ray
and a breast exam. And if you mention al-Qaida, you'll get a free colonoscopy! What a country!

George Phillips, an elderly man from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. He phoned the police, who asked, "Is there someone in your house?" He said, "No, but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me." Then the police dispatcher said, "All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available." George said, "Okay." He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again. "Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both, the dogs are eating them right now," and he hung up. Within five minutes, six police cars, a SWAT Team, a helicopter, two fire trucks, a paramedic, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed. One of the policemen said to George, "I thought you said you'd shot them!" George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!" (True Story). Moral of the story: Don't mess with old people.

Heaven is where:                      Hell is where:
The police are British,               The Police are German,
The Chefs are Italian,                The Chefs are British,
The Mechanics are German,             The Mechanics are French,
The Lovers are French and             The Lovers are Swiss and
It's all organized by the Swiss.      It's all organized by the Italians.

The train was quite crowded, so a U. S. Marine walked the entire length looking for a seat, but the only seat was taken by a well-dressed, middle-
aged French woman's poodle. The war-weary Marine asked, "Ma'am, may I have that seat?" The French woman just sniffed and said to no one in
particular, "Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat." The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was
under that dog. "Please, Ma'am, may I sit down? I'm very tired." She snorted, "Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!" This
time the Marine didn't say a word, he just picked up the dog, threw it out of the train window, and sat down. The woman shrieked, "Someone
must defend my honor! This American should be put in his place!" As she continued to shout, an English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up,
"Sir, you Americans often seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You hold the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your cars on
the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you seem to have thrown the wrong bitch out of the window."

160 years ago California became a state. It had no electricity, no
money, almost everyone spoke Spanish and there were gunfights in the
streets. So, basically, it's just like California is today, except
the women had real breasts and the men didn't hold hands.

Referring to Prince William's bachelor party: "It must be weird
stuffing money into a stripper's bikini when every bill has a photo
of your grandmother printed on it."

Obituaries:

Gary Zaminstein, 90, died in New Port Richey, Florida on January 26,
2011. He was born in Poland and was there when the Germans invaded
in September, 1939. He escaped from a German work labor camp and hid
with a Polish underground unit and later joined the Russian Army.
On several occasions, he charged German tanks and dropped a grenade in
an open slot of the tank, killing all inside. He was later a part of
the Russian Army unit that liberated Auschwitz.

Alex A. Boudreaux, 90, died in his sleep at a Columbus, Ohio nursing
center on February 23. He was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. He was a
bomber and fighter pilot.

Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, a scientist and doctor who invented an under-
water breathing system used by the military in World War II and later
coined the "scuba" acronym by which such systems are widely known, died
of renal failure on February 11 in Newtown Square, Pa. Among his many
honors were the highest civilian awards from the Department of Defense
and the Coast Guard.

Frank Buckles, 110, died February 27 at his farm home in West Virginia.
He was a rear-echelon ambulance driver on the Western Front in World
War I and was the last soldier of the World War I era. He was buried
at Arlington on March 15.

Arnost Lustig, 84, a Czech-born fiction writer who drew on his ex-
perience as the survivor of three concentration camps to create un-
sentimental portrayals of life during the Holocaust, died of cancer
on February 26 in Prague.

Claude Stanley Choules, 110, the last World War I combat veteran, died
May 5 in a nursing home in Perth, Australia. The British-born Choules
had a 41 year career in the Australian Navy.

Please remember them in your prayers.

SIXTH INFANTRY REGIMENT ASSOCIATION AND AUXILIARY NEWSLETTER

May 1, 2011

Obituaries: