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It's something that you don't forget, you dream about all the time…everyday reminds me of something everyday. Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. |
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One veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later: |
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Learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. |
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In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of "New Hampshire"veterans and communities. It's estimated some one-thousand veterans of that war die every day, taking their stories with them. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. We're here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro which is dedicated to the World War Two experience. In this program we'll explore just some of the personal war stories from NEW HAMPSHIRE. We begin with Bill Onufry. He was part of the largest capture of American troops in U-S history. He endured what is now known as the Bataan Death March. The former prisoner of war shares his journey. to hell and back. |
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The are things I drew so I wouldn't forget. This is where they dug their own graves and they shoot em. 85-year-old Bill Onufry was 18 when he enlisted in the Air Force. He wanted to be a pilot. Being stationed in the Philippines was a "choice" assignment - or, so he thought until Dec 7th 1941. Our battle cry is Japan's treachery…remember Pearl Harbor. we were attacked by Japanese about 6 hours after Pearl harbor The bombing came without Warning. Allied troops were unprepared for battle in the Philippines and within months -- ammunition, food and medicine ran out. They were sick. still fighting. Of couse, they couldn't fight anymore when there were 30 Japanese to one of us how are you going to fight? On april 9th 1942 -- Onufry's Commander ordered Allied forces to surrender to Japan. Soldiers, near starvation, were forced to march to a prison camp in scorching heat -- with no water. Those who fell behind… were executed. I was on the road for about 10 days I had stopped to help a few fellas that were in my outfit and tried to help them along a little bit. In fact there was one I had him lean on me while we walked. He finally quit. He gave up and said he couldn't go any further: I told him you gotta keep going…you know what will happen if you don't. He said I don't care…I can't go any more.and the Japanese guard came and jabbed me with his bayonet -- my friend from my outfit he just fell right there and the Japanese jabbed me to go on with the rest -- and I wasn't up road 300 feet and I heard 2 rifle shots so… we KNOW what happened to him. we lost more men on the march then we lost in the whole fighting time we were there:25 That was only the beginning. Those who survived the march - were herded into steel and wooden box cars, where many suffocated. If you got into one of the steel ones there were all metal hard to breathe put 125 men in each little box car --and so you couldn't get enuf air. Fortunately I was in a wooden one so I did get the air I needed the other ones in the steel cars by the time we got to where we were going with that train…we had to pull out some dead ones there then we had to march another 8- miles I guess it was to Camp O'Donnell which of course was a hell hole. Is this camp O'donnell. Yeah It was just a place that looked like if you stayed there very long you'd die 4:55:29 **** TAPE 1 Bill: 4:55:31-:39 there were thousands of men there and we had no water and no food no sanitary facilities. their idea of feeding us was 4 oz of rice a day:56 and, then of course some of the rice we got I couldn't eat it.i'd give it to somebody else they'd go wild over it I didn't like those little black eyes staring at me bus and worms in it. They told us if anybody tried to escape they'd take 9 others and shoot em any 9., walk by you you you. that stopped a lot of trying to escape. To get out -- Onufry volunteered for a work detail at Clark Field in the Philippines. He was there 2 years. When Navy bombers started coming in -- pow's were shipped out. I thought the death march was bad. This was worse to me it was worse. they marched us into a big hole in lower part of the ship. 600 men in forward hole, 600 men in the stern. started to get pretty hot, of course very little water in beginning, finally sent down some but some of the men in the corners didn't get it. Some of them needed water pretty badly…had idea next partner had some, some awful screaming in night and awful beatings and fighting…next day one of the chaplains on our ship -- says.check the man next to you to see if he's dead & some were. I buried a lot of people on that ship - just buried them at sea threw them over the fan tail This is where I used to throw them off the stern …just like that one after the other. Thousands would perish at sea. Had it not been for his boy scout training Bill says he might have been one of them. I was taught to take little stone and put it in mouth, roll it around when you get real thirsty.I'd take buttons off my shirt and that's what I'd do with them. Take a button roll it around my mouth while we were on the ship waiting and hoping for water but we didn't get any by time I got to end of that trip I didn't have any buttons left. Does it stave off thirst…it does -- it actually really does. Sometimes I can't believe I'm here. I thought it would be a miracle that would bring me home.nothing but a miracle It is a miracle -- hell I'm 85 years old. Onufry spent 3 ˝ years in captivity before being liberated when the Japanese surrendered. this is letter from Harry Truman. welcome back to native shores. Like many returning solders Bill would marry his hometown sweetheart & try to put his POW years behind him. I felt personally myself that I let my country down.-- and done nothing. I was captured, it was kind of a shame to be a captive. So, that's the main reason most of us didn't talk about it I'm sure. I used to have a lump in my stomach so tight of anger It would take a trip to Japan 40 years later to ease the pain. When I landed in Japan -- you could see that old Mt Fugiami,.I had to cry a little. but then I saw school children in uniforms and it hit me those aren't the people I'm angry with…. something released just like that as far as anger is concerned. Today, Bill Onufry talks openly about his experience. . 1:40:59-:09 had we known what we would have to go thru to survive we might have stayed to the last man. Onufry also takes the Bataan death march story to the classroom. Onufry says those who died in service of their country deserve to be remembered. the ones I threw over at sea …who's got them who knows about them. I think its something that shouldn't just die out like it is. It's not part of our history …and it should be. |
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40 years after leaving the service, Bill Onufry was awarded the silver Cross for gallantry in action. |
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Here at the Wright Museum the story of World War Two is explored on many levels. Some people remember the conflict as a "good" or "just" war. But not everyone thought so at the time. Some who served in the armed forces were also "conscientious objectors" like Sam Hagner of Durham, who joined the army as a medical corpsman. That assignment led to him witnessing some of the worst atrocities of the war. Outlook's Richard Ager spoke with Hagner about his experience of being a pacifist in a time of war. We want to caution you this story contains some graphic images. |
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It's stories like Sam Hagner's and William Onufry's. that are part of the national Veteran's History Project. So far 21-thousand oral histories have been preserved from World War Two vets. Outlook's Adam Donovan has more on the project and how folks in New Hampshire are making sure that stories from their communities are being recorded. |
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FADE IN: Camera pans from Wally filming to Sue and Frances in interview. BITE: Sue "Hi this is Susan Burns, I'm interviewing one of our friends here from the nursing home attached to the VA. TRACK: When Sue Burns isn't busy Directing Rehab services at the VA Medical Hospital in Manchester, she spends a lot of her time interviewing Veterans about their War-Time experiences. SOUNDUP: Sue "Did they ship you somewhere else?" Frances "I spent time in three or four field hospitals. TRACK: Sue's interviews are just one small part of the Veterans Oral History Project. A nationwide initiative that seeks the personal accounts of America's Veterans and archives them at the library of congress. BITE: Sue "About five or six years ago it came to my attention that they were having a hard time recruiting New Hampshire vets into a project they were doing to get histories from all the states in the country." BITE: Sue "At the same time, I saw a lot of my WWII friends - we have a sixty bed nursing home attached to the complex - getting older and the possibility of losing those stories… with a lot of them having really amazing stories!" TRACK: So, she decided to get involved. SOUNDUP: Frances "And like I say in all my thirty-eight missions I only wore my parachutes twice, the first one and the last one." TRACK: Francis Cresser served as an aerial gunner in the Army Air Force's 99th bombardment group. During the war, he took in part in many long range missions, attacking key enemy facilities all across Europe. In his final mission, the plane he was aboard came under fire by anti-aircraft artillery. BITE: Frances "I said oh boy I'll never get out of here." Sue, "So you got trapped?" Frances, "Well I figured I was trapped. But I wasn't, next thing I knew I was out in the air." TRACK: His plane was shot down. But thanks to his parachute, Frances survived to tell his story. BITE: Frances "'What are you doin' here? You're supposed to be dead' I said I'm not dead - I was in a prison camp but I'm not dead!" SOUNDUP: Al "I think it's an excellent idea." TRACK: Veteran's Al Sabatini and Paul Metcalfe of Salem, NH both served during World War Two. SOUNDUP: Al "And we'd go in and chase out the Germans." BITE: Paul "I think the saddest part today is that young children don't know what has happened in the past. I know they have history classes, but personal interviews in an assembly and that type of thing I think work better." TRACK: Two years ago both Al and Paul were interviewed about their war experiences, by the Salem's local access station. AL DVD CLIP: "And our job was to go up on the roof and clear out the snipers." TRACK: Both men feel that the oral history project is a good way of educating the next generation. BITE: Al "Cause that's when my little granddaughter asked me what I thought about the war. She might have been watching a John Wayne movie or something - or however they do it today, but they get the idea that it's not glamorous. When grandpa says it's terror. Just plain terror. I think that sinks in to them. BITE: Paul "I couldn't do the shoveling so I used to hire some kids to come in and do the shoveling. And they noticed the purple heart plate on my car and they were asking me questions… 'what was it for?' and I explained it to them and I went in the house and got it out and let them hold it and they were so excited that they had learned something that nobody else knew. And I think this is where the education problem comes in. The young people want to know but no one takes the time to tell them about it." TRACK: Paul wishes more Veterans would be pro-active by offering to take part in the History Project themselves. BITE: Paul "And you get all the guidelines, you get everything you need to put all that stuff together and I did it because I've been saving it over the years… and to me it was very simple." SOUNDUP: Debora, "We've had family members call and say 'How do I do this for my grandfather?'" TRACK: Debora Krinsky, Director of Volunteer Services at the VA, oversee's the hospital's contributions to the project. BITE: Debora "We're sort of a natural initiator, because we have the Veterans here. and we have a number of different resources here that are needed to put an Oral History together." BITE: Debora "It's a collaborative effort between service members, volunteers, between the residents and between staff that feel this is such a worth while project." TRACK: And as Debora tells us, setting up your own oral history can be relatively easy. BITE: Debora "Video Camera. Tripod. There is a protocol that the Library of Congress has available to people. There's a guide, there's a check off, all available." TRACK: Sue feels it's important to take the initiative to get involved. Otherwise, many stories may remain untold. BITE: Sue "A lot of people that have stories are not the types that pass their stories on to their families. sometimes they'll go to some of the service organization meetings - because they feel safer with their comrades, but I don't find their very verbal about it unless they're put into a situation where they're asked specific questions" DO YOU MIND SHARING THESE STORIES WITH YOUR FAMILY? Frances: "not unless they pump me I don't. I don't mind if they ask me, but if they don't, I don't tell them." BITE: Sue "Some its just their personality, before they went in. Some are a little more boastful and verbal about it. Proud of it. And some did it and they were proud Of doing it but don't wanna pat themselves on the back TRACK: Wally Heath volunteers at the VA Hospital. BITE: Wally "As you're well aware, WWII Veterans are diminishing at a very rapid rate, most are in their 80's or older and if we don't capture that information now from them personally, then its lost information, lost HISTORY. BITE: Sue "I just did this because you wanna capture these stories and give them the respect and learn a lot from what they experienced. BITE: Sue " but For the most part it's a big part of history, it's a huge part of history. So it's something we shouldn't lose." TRACK: For NH Outlook. I'm Adam Donovan. BITE: Sue, "Thank you for sharing your story." Frances, "Your welcome. your welcome." FADE OUT. In Memory of Francis Cresser, World War II Veteran March 11th, 1919 -- August 3rd, 2007 |
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Since taping this story, Francis Cresser, the gentleman being interviewed at the VA Medical Hospital in Manchester, has died. His death serves as a reminder of the importance of capturing the stories of World War Two veterans before it's too late. We hope his story and the others in this program inspire you to participate in New Hampshire Public Television's NH War Stories project. Go to our website, nhptv.org to share your story, or record the story of someone you know and if you're a student, participate in our "War Stories Student Documentary" project. You can also connect to national and local veterans resources. That does it for us here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro. I'm Beth Carroll, Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time. nhptv.org That does it for us here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro. I'm Beth Carroll, I'll see you next time. |
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Many are familiar with the story of Rene Gagnon, one of the famous flag raisers at Iwo Jima -- who was well known for his Franco American background. Gagnon was from Manchester -- where many Franco Americans lived -- most of whom came to America during the Industrial Revolution. What do other Franco Americans remember from World War II? Gene: "Everything was French, even downtown Manchester they used to speak French." Childhood friends Ray Gilbert and Gene Lemire grew up on Montgomery Street in Manchester's west side - well known for it's large Franco American population. Ray: "We could almost talk to each other from the second floor… the houses were so narrow…" Gene: "About ten feet between our house and his house." Their families immigrated from Canada to New England during the Industrial Revolution. Manchester's need for mill workers served as a strong attraction for hundreds of French Canadian families. Ray: The west side was noted for being some ninety percent French, you could be born raised, live, die here and never have to speak a word of English… For many of these Franco-American families, world war two was their first experience with war. As young boys, Ray and Gene remember the changes made to every day life in the community. Ray: They had collections where they would go around and collect iron metal, paper, anything that could be recycled for the war. And I remember my father - when we left our toys out on the sidewalk, he would make sure we put it in the back where it belonged, otherwise they'd pick it up and you'd lose your wagon. Gene: And they had the tokens and ration stamps when we wanted to buy butter was rationed, coffee was rationed. Had to go down to Kennedy's for that. TRACK: Longtime Manchester resident Janet Stiles remembers the rationing and staples like butter and meat being in short supply. Janet: One time my mother went to get some hamburger, and all they had was horsemeat. So that's what we had that night. And I loved horses, I was on the weekends working for a local stable. But I tried the horsemeat it was very strong, I said mom don't try this again. Janet: "And my dad had a car, a 31 Chevy, but it was hard to get gas sometimes. So he bought, five bicycles so we could all ride our bikes and not wasting gas." As a teenager Janet recalls the closeness of Manchester's Franco American community being evidenced throughout the war. Janet: Because it was a real war effort - it wasn't just sending the boys off and forgetting them. Everybody was writing letters to their friends - and it was like pen pals and if they didn't have a name to write to, they would find somebody to write to, just to keep the morale going in the service. It was very important to keep that going, that somebody remembered them somewhere… Janet's husband Walter remembers serving with a lot of Franco American boys from the neighborhood. Walter: "There's Stiles, there's Delisle, French. Boisvert, French. Conlan, he was… I'd say, Art Conlan he was a mixture like I was. Here's Bergeron and here's Les Francais. So, one, two, three, four out of six in this were Franco Americans. But for some of the men, signing up for the service meant losing part of their Franco American identity. Walter: So the drill instructor is calling roll. He calls, Smith, Jones, Stiles, Boys-vert. And I said Roland I think they mean Boisvert , and he says, Sir that's pronounced Boisvert. And he said Lad, as long as your at Paris Island, when I say Boys-vert, you better answer. He said "yes sir!" So he called him that all the way through Paris Island. The Franco American community saw even more change when soldiers returned home. Many moved out the west side - and into other city neighborhoods. Janet, "I know there was hardly any housing for them. Because most came back, and a lot of them were married during the war and they'd bring their wives back and it was hard to find places for them all to live." After the war and beyond, Manchester's support for the troops never wavered. Walter: "Everywhere you went they congratulated you. In fact they still do now. Thank you for your service. I wear a marine hat when I go around. Manchester's a very nice city." A city that has been rapidly changing since the end of World War Two. Today more than ever, neighborhood pals Ray Gilbert and Gene Lemire feel the need to preserve the memory of the west side's small Franco American enclave. Gene, "We are a dying breed, I think. We really are. Because all our children don't speak French anymore and all the families in the neighborhood." Ray is an active member of the Franco American Centre - a Manchester organization which celebrates history and wartime contributions of Franco Americans. Both men still find ways to keep the culture they grew up with a big part of their lives. Gene: "We both belong to the licheleu club. The French culture club. We see each other and we have to speak French, twice a month. When we see each other we usually yap to each other in French." For NH Outlook, I'm Beth Carroll. Video OUT. |
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Sam Hagner also tells about a friend of his - a teacher - who came to him saying his history class was not convinced of the existence of the concentration camps. Hagner gave him a copy of a letter he had written from Dachau - and the teacher reported that letter and its description convinced the students. |
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War Brothers Script update Larry walking to war memorial - looking at names N1- Just across the street from Larry Zullo's Newport home is a reminder of yesterday's lost soldiers and today's.. Larry is a war veteran -- a WWII Marine who refuses to forget. Dissolve to Larry walking through cemetery Larry 4323 "When a veteran dies in the Newport area, I gather the guys together and give the person a real military funeral." N2- Several years ago, Larry and his guys helped bury an old soldier named James Wright. Larry 4322 "He served in WWI. He served in France and it was important that we gave him a military funeral. His family really appreciated it." Shot of grave site Fade to black Shot going in to house and greeting people. N3- This evening, like every Thursday evening, Larry goes out for dinner. He's with three of his brothers at the home where they were born. Larry 3040 "If we didn't get together every Thursday, we'd probably see each other once or twice a year." N4- This house on Belding Street in Claremont is where Larry's parents lived. They moved from Italy and raised a family here. Rocco 2630 "My parents had 14 kids - 2 died so we ended up with six boys and six girls." N5- In the late 1930s, Claremont was a busy town building its economy. It was a very different world from Asia and Europe where people lived in the dawn of war. It was at that time when Mr. and Mrs. Zullo received a request from Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. Larry 3445 "There was a letter from Mussolini to my dad, to move him back to Italy, for free. My father wouldn't go, he said he wants my sons for his army, he said no sir if they are going to fight, they are going to fight for America." Shot of boys in uniform N6- Five of the Zullo boys got that chance. Larry 1940 "I felt sad, I felt bad cause I was leaving, I left the street here and looked up the street and said this is the last time I'll see this street. I'm going off to war I figured I wasn't going to come back." N7- None of the boys really knew what they were about to face. Rocco 3450 "I was a single man then and gun-ho." Footage of USS Hancock N8- Larry was aboard the USS Hancock. He was 19 years old and at sea off the coast of Japan. Larry 3538 "You know I kept saying, I'm going into combat, I'm going to kill as many of those guys before they kill me because I felt your chances of surviving are almost zero." N9- His first mission was to destroy Japanese airfields on the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. It was a successful strike, which drew retaliation. Larry 3630 "Late at night the Japanese are coming at us with biddy bombers. They came over the fleet and dropped flares and it was like daylight and this is my first combat mission and I'm telling you I was so scared my teeth were chattering. The guns in the task group are firing like crazy, the guns on the port side firing like crazy, and I'm on the starboard side listening to all the action." N10- By morning, Larry's first taste of war was over. The Hancock sailed away shaken but unscathed. Fade to black Battle of Bulge footage N11- Fred Zullo was in Belgium, along the German border. One of the war's deadliest battles was underway. Fred 2947 "I was a tool maker in a shop and got deferred. I had four brothers in the service so I quit my job and was drafted." Sound of battle Larry 3030 "They sent him to the army and he ended up in the Battle of the Bulge." Fred 3155 "We made a drive at night. And when we got to the pill box the Germans were down at the end of the field. They opened up on us with machine guns. It was about one in the morning. I was hit in the leg and hip and a mine knocked me out." Larry 3050 "He didn't tell you but his division was wiped out. The Germans knocked the hell out of him." Larry 5200 Phil - HOW DIFFICULT WAS IT HAVING SO MANY BROTHERS FIGHTING IN DIFFERENT AREAS AND NOT KNOWING? I'd get letters from them now and then, the one I felt bad for was my mother and father, how'd you like to have that many sons in the armed forces?" Shots of church N12- Around the corner from the family home, Mrs. Zullo found sanctuary. Everyday she prayed for the safe return of her sons. Rocco 2735 "She had a candle for each of us and if any one of us was wounded, she knew it." N13- Rocco put his amateur boxing career on hold and enlisted in the Marines. His Company was the first to land at Guadalcanal. Rocco 933 Phil - "What was the fighting like? Vicous. They took no prisoners and we took no prisoners. The Japanese used to cruise up and down the island and shell the living daylights out of us." Footage of fighting Rocco 830 "Yes it was kind of scary. We knew that we couldn't lose that island because if we did we'd be killed or taken prisoner, we knew that so we were fighting to the last man and the kids from Texas were saying, 'Remember the Alamo!'" Larry 3000 "He was telling me one night he was shot up bad and a Jap crawled in to his foxhole and he had a knife his brother made when he was in the machine shop. He said he pinned that Jap to the ground." Rocco 1740 Phil - "Do you remember that? I don't want to remember that. I don't want remember things like that." Rocco 1903 Phil - "Do you remember the first time you killed an enemy soldier? Asking someone if they killed another person, I don't think anyone wants to answer that question." N14 - Larry witnessed death before his 20th birthday. While cruising the Pacific, Japanese suicide pilots - Kamikazes were at work and the USS Hancock was a large target. Larry 2030ish "When we got hit by the kamikaze I thought oh boy this is it. The plane came right up over the flight deck, the 40mm get about 2 or 3 rounds off and they came right over and they got a few shots at it, but it was too close. Oh it hit the deck, it dropped the bomb and hit the planes on the back of the ship. He accomplished his mission the whole ship was on fire. I had two sailors die right at my gun mount and they were screaming help me help me. I unbuckled myself to help them and the sergeant says get back in the gun we're under attack." Larry 4200 Phil - "WHAT WAS THAT LIKE EXPERIENCING YOUR FIRST WAR DEATH? Tears, that's all you can do. You say good bye to them and there's not a thing you can do. You say it could have been me, and when you see the bags floating on the ocean, oh my god, tear you to pieces." Fade to black Street scenes of Claremont N15- By 1945, the Zullo brothers returned home to Claremont one by one. There was great relief but no celebrations. Larry 4700 "When I came back I was the only one to get off the train, there was nothing said, nothing to do." N16- The war took them as boys and returned them as men. Now, sixty years later, four brothers get together. The fifth, Alexander died several years ago. The other lives in North Carolina. Thursday nights have been put aside to share dinner, stories and thanks. Time, they know, is running out. Photo of Rocco's Marine company Rocco 3214 Phil "How often do you think of these guys? Often. Not as much now - I used to think of them quite frequently. I feel very fortunate to be here. All I can say is good thing for the young, American manhood." Shots/sound at dinner table Larry 5048 "That's my medicine for post traumatic stress. So for veterans to talk about their combat experiences - it helps a lot. Yes." N17- For NH Outlook, I'm Phil Vaughn. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 10:00 NOW on NH Outlook: Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. Plus, one veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later, learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of New Hampshire veterans and communities. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. We're here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro which is dedicated to the World War Two experience. In this program we'll explore just some of the personal war stories from New Hampshire. We begin with Bill Onufry. He was part of the largest capture of American troops in U.S. history. He endured what is now known as the Bataan Death March. The former prisoner of war shares his journey, to hell and back. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: William Onufry\Bataan Death March Survivor |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 10:00 NOW on NH Outlook: Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. Plus, one veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later, learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of New Hampshire veterans and communities. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. We're here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro which is dedicated to the World War Two experience. In this program we'll explore just some of the personal war stories from New Hampshire. We begin with Bill Onufry. He was part of the largest capture of American troops in U.S. history. He endured what is now known as the Bataan Death March. The former prisoner of war shares his journey, to hell and back. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: William Onufry\Bataan Death March Survivor |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:00 NOW on NH Outlook: Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. Plus, one veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later, learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of New Hampshire veterans and communities. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. Here at the Wright Museum the story of World War Two is explored on many levels. Some people remember the conflict as a "good" or "just" war. But not everyone thought so at the time. Some who served in the armed forces were also "conscientious objectors" like Sam Hagner of Durham, who joined the army as a medical corpsman. That assignment led to him witnessing some of the worst atrocities of the war. Outlook's Richard Ager spoke with Hagner about his experience of being a pacifist in a time of war. We want to caution you this story contains some graphic images. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Sam Hagner\WWII Veteran, 81st Field Hospital |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:00 NOW on NH Outlook: Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. Plus, one veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later, learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of New Hampshire veterans and communities. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. Here at the Wright Museum the story of World War Two is explored on many levels. Some people remember the conflict as a "good" or "just" war. But not everyone thought so at the time. Some who served in the armed forces were also "conscientious objectors" like Sam Hagner of Durham, who joined the army as a medical corpsman. That assignment led to him witnessing some of the worst atrocities of the war. Outlook's Richard Ager spoke with Hagner about his experience of being a pacifist in a time of war. We want to caution you this story contains some graphic images. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Sam Hagner\WWII Veteran, 81st Field Hospital |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 7:30 NOW on NH Outlook: Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. Plus, one veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later, learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of New Hampshire veterans and communities. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. We're here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro which is dedicated to the World War Two experience. In this program we'll explore just some of the personal war stories from New Hampshire. It's stories like Sam Hagner's and William Onufry's that are part of the national Veteran's History Project. So far twenty one thousand oral histories have been preserved from World War Two vets. Outlook's Adam Donovan has more on the project and how folks in New Hampshire are making sure that stories from their communities are being recorded. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Adam Donovan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Susan Burns\Director of Rehabilitation Services, Manchester VA Medical Center, Francis Cresser\WWII Veteran, Al Sabatini\WWII Veteran, Paul Metcalf\WWII Veteran, Debra Krinsky\Director of Volunteer Services, Manchester VA Medical Center, Wallace J. Heath\Volunteer, Manchester VA Medical Center |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 7:30 NOW on NH Outlook: Haunting memories of a World War Two veteran and life as a prisoner of war. Plus, one veteran remembers the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. And later, learn about the national project now collecting personal war memories and how you can participate. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television is telling the stories of New Hampshire veterans and communities. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to this special edition of NH Outlook. We're here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro which is dedicated to the World War Two experience. In this program we'll explore just some of the personal war stories from New Hampshire. It's stories like Sam Hagner's and William Onufry's that are part of the national Veteran's History Project. So far twenty one thousand oral histories have been preserved from World War Two vets. Outlook's Adam Donovan has more on the project and how folks in New Hampshire are making sure that stories from their communities are being recorded. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Adam Donovan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Susan Burns\Director of Rehabilitation Services, Manchester VA Medical Center, Francis Cresser\WWII Veteran, Al Sabatini\WWII Veteran, Paul Metcalf\WWII Veteran, Debra Krinsky\Director of Volunteer Services, Manchester VA Medical Center, Wallace J. Heath\Volunteer, Manchester VA Medical Center |
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Ethanol could fuel price hikes Posted Saturday, March 31st 2007, 4:00 AM An ethanol-fueled boom in prices will prompt American farmers to plant the most corn since the year the Allies invaded Normandy, but surging demand could mean consumers still might pay more for everything from chicken to cough syrup. Corn is a key ingredient in many foods, from corn syrup found in candies to feed used in meat production. With more corn being used for ethanol production, that could raise prices in other areas where corn is used. Farmers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn, according to the Department of Agriculture's annual prospective plantings report released yesterday. That would be a 15% increase over 2006 and the most corn planted since 1944. The move to plant corn is in large part due to a rush to produce corn-based ethanol, which is blended with gasoline. The corn rush was sparked by President Bush's initiative for support of flexible-fuel vehicles and his administration's plan to cut gas consumption by 20% in 10 years. The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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n New West Energy Grok ‘Ethanol Binge’ Hikes Corn Prices By Richard Martin, 3-23-07 Last week US BioEnergy had a ground-breaking ceremony at a new ethanol plant in Dyersville, Iowa, bringing to 78 the number of ethanol plants under construction, with 113 already operating. And that’s not good news for the ranchers and poultry farmers of the Rocky Mountain West. Amid the “ethaphoria” currently gripping agribusiness and certain parts of the nation’s capital, a growing chorus of voices is pointing out an unintended consequence on the reliance on corn and grains as the raw material for ethanol production: prices for feed fo livestock are rising, sending prices at grocery stores up as well. “This ethanol binge is insane,” Paul Hitch, president-elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn., told BusinessWeek. Corn prices have doubled over the last year, reports the Earth Policy Institute, while wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years. The diversion of corn to fuel ethanol uses “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain,” a Bloomberg analysis finds – not to mention increased use of pesticides and fossil fuels to grow all that corn. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has slapped a 54-cents-per-gallon tarrif on ethanol from Brazil – which is grown from sugarcane. Wonder what’s going to happen to rum prices. In other energy news: -- In a man-bites-dog story, Xcel Energy has applied to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for an electricity rate decrease of $13.6 million thanks to lower costs of fuel, such as natural gas, and purchased electricity predicted for upcoming months. If approved by the PUC, the new rates would take effect April 1 and continue through June 30. Meanwhile, the Colo. attorney general has announced his support for HB 1208, which would alter the state’s Unfair Practices Act to allow big chain stores to offer big gas discounts. -- As Colo. Governor Bill Ritter’s legislative package to boost renewable energy, and increase oversight of the oil and gas industry in the state, moves closer to signing, Big Energy is faced with a dilemma: oppose the measures, and be seen as obstructionists and anti-environmentalists, or swallow hard and go along? So far the Colorado Petroleum Association is against House Bill 1341, which would reform the board of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, while oil giant BP—the state’s No. 1 natural gas producer—says it will take a wait-and-see approach. -- Earlier we reported that, despite the Bush Administration’s ambitious goals for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol from organic material other than corn, the research budget for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, which is leading the way on cellulosic science, had flatlined. That’s no longer the case: the Energy Department announced Friday that the NREL will get an additional $99 million in funding this year, a 47-percent jump. Comment By dukeco1, 3-23-07 Big Energy is not accustomed to going along. They are, in Colorado at least, accustomed to getting their way. They just need to sidle over and make room for all their chickens moving back in to the roost. Comment By Hal Herring, 3-23-07 Brazilian ethanol tariff shows the world that all our free market talk is just like all that talk about WMD. How much more credibility can we stand to lose? As we pump out the last aquifers to water the chem-corn.bust the last prairie for the GMO variety, importing as much oil as we can to drive those tractors that make the corn ethanol binge.keep those Wahabbis happy, don't you know, keep the money flowing to them as leaders pretend to "get off the product," wreck the land, keep the annuities for the families of the Islamic suicide bombers healthy, line some US pockets, and witness the end of the greatest nation on earth. Dang. Hal Boy, it ain't a pretty picture is it? Comment By Chris, 3-23-07 Not only that, but the plants that make the stuff are awful-smelling blights too. Last week I was working literally in the shadow of an ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA, that processes corn syrup from corn, and is in the process of building an ethanol plant. I don't know what was in the exhaust belching into the sky, but it sure smelled raunchy. I wouldn't wish that in anyone's backyard. Comment By pete geddes, 3-23-07 When we subsidize things that trade in the market, we benefit the well off and well organized at the expense of the most vulnerable members of society. This holds true whether in Bozeman, Boston, or Birmingham. Princeton Ph.D. George Will said it well: “The world is divided between those who do and do not understand that activist, interventionist, regulating, subsidizing government is generally a servant of the strong and entrenched against the weak and aspiring.” Comment By Francesco DeParis, 3-23-07 I think we should start supporting cellulosic ethanol in the same manner we support corn-based ethanol. There will come a point when corn prices are too high to consider this an economic alternative to petroleum. I comment about cellulosic ethanol onEnergy Spin: Alternative Energy Blog For Investors Served Daily Cheers, Francesco DeParis Comment By bearbait, 3-25-07 One result of NAFTA was that corn from USA was so cheap and available that it drove tens of thousands of small Mexican farmers off the land and to town to find work. Now that corn has doubled in price, tortillas have also doubled in price. The poorest in Mexico now have a harder time eating, and more incentive to move north. The end result, of course, is how much energy independence do you gain by having your country supporting another million or more illegal aliens in need of medical, financial, housing and education subsidy, all of which come with energy demands? Corn ethanol comes with costs, many of which are hidden. Again, a hero move supported by liberal midwestern politicians financed by MegaAg companies, comes with unintended consequences. The ones in Mexico have happened, and the ones here are on the conveyor belt to realization. Meat prices will have to rise, and we all will pay that price. Even the vegans will pay a higher price as soy beans are replaced by corn in the farm fields. Comment By cc, 3-26-07 That Xcel Energy news item relates to the monthly ECA which adjusts, up or down, for the commodity cost of natural gas feedstock, primarily. Thus, it is not that unusual to see a downward ECA result in an overall decrease in electrictiy rates for the following month. Incidentally, the same mechanism is found on the natural gas bills but it is called a GCA. Thus, this is not a "man bites dog" story, but something that occurs when natural gas prices decline. 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Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. In a new PBS documentary, "The War", New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns explores the stories of World War two veterans and the communities they left behind. Inspired by Burns, NH Public Television started a project designed to tell the stories of New Hampshire veterans and their communities, before it's too late. It's estimated some one-thousand veterans of that war die every day, taking their stories with them. We're here at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro ---which is dedicated to telling the story of World War Two. In this program we'll explore just some of the personal war stories from NEW HAMPSHIRE. We begin with Bill Onufry. He was part of the largest capture of American troops in U-S history. Walking to prison camp, soldiers were starved, shot & killed in what would later be called the Bataan death march. The former POW shares his journey.to hell and back. |
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