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‘My story is my scars, and the government doesn’t pay for scars’
Editor’s note: Veteran Voice will have additional stories about Silverio “Sal” Conti. The Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs is aware that this story is running and is researching information about its experiences with and policies regarding veterans who served at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, in the middle 1950s. Silverio “Sal” Conti was in his
early 20s when he showed up at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, a facility where chemical and biological weapons testing was conducted in the 1950s. That was in March 1955. Conti wasn’t particularly idealistic, or cynical. He was just a New York City boy there to cook his way through an Army draft enlistment as he looked forward to heading back home.Today, at age 79, he sounds
downright cynical and angry at the government. The more his story unfolds, the easier it is to understand why. Conti said that if he knew he’d walked off Dugway with the life he has, he’d have refused to step foot on the post. “I told John (Haddox), ‘Those
sons of (expletive) should have told us,” he said. “They should have told us that these things coming out of our bodies were not natural.”
Haddox was a county veterans service officer in Martin from 1999 to 2012. That’s how he met Conti and learned about his sto-ry. Haddox filed claims, appeals and more of both to the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs for Con-
ti. They all hit brick walls. Conti said he gets nothing from
the VA. Nothing. Not medical care. Nothing. Especially, Con-ti said, he doesn’t get answers. Not from the VA or anyone else. Haddox left the service office to
run for and serve on the Mar-tin County Commission, but he keeps up on Conti’s case. Had-dox is a steady man — not at all
Patrick McCallisterFor Veteran Voice
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerU.S. Army veteran Sal Conti of Hobe Sound was a cook in the Army while stationed at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Since then Conti has had a life-long host of medical conditions that mimic the illnesses of animals that were found dead in the area of chemical testing in the late 1960s.
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County Veterans Service OfficersSt. Lucie County, Wayne TeegardinPhone: (772) 337-5670Fax: (772) [email protected] J. Conrad Building(formerly the Walton Road Annex Bldg.)1664 S.E. Walton Road, Suite 205Port St. Lucie, FL 34952By appointmentMon., Tues, Thurs, Fri * 8:30 am-4:30 pmWed * 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Lucie County Community Services Bldg.(Corner of Avenue D and 7th Street)437 N. Seventh St., Fort Pierce, FL 34950Walk-insMon. and Fri. * 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Brevard Veteran’s Services Office2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way,Bldg. B, Suite 102, Viera, FL 32940Office: (321) 633-2012Fax: (321) 637-5432Mon., Tues. and Thurs., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.Wed. and Fri, 8 a.m.-noonManager: Glenn McGuffieIndian River CountyJoel HermanVero Beach 2525 St. Lucie Ave.,Vero Beach, FL 32960 Ph: (772) 226-1499 Fax: (772) 770-5038Sebastian Square 11602 U.S. 1, Sebastian, FL 32958 Ph: (772) 589-6597 Fax: (772) 581-4988
Martin CountyTony Reese, Veterans Service Office SupervisorNick Ciotti, Veterans Service Officer(772) 288-5448Veterans Services OfficeMartin County Community Services435 S.E. Flagler Ave., Stuart, FL 34994Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.VA Life Insurance Ctr., Phil., PA - 1-800-669-8477 VA Regional Office - 1-800-827-1000 VA Medical Ctr, W. Palm Beach - 1-800-972-8262 Pharmacy, VA Medical Center - 1-800-317-8387 Military Retired Pay Activities, Cleveland, OH - (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force ONLY) 1-800-321-1080 Military Retired Pay Activities, Topeka, KS - (Coast Guard ONLY)1-800-772-8724 Survivor Benefits (SBP),Denver, CO - 1-800-435-3396 Stuart VA Clinic - (772) 288-0304 Okeechobee CountyVeterans Services office (863) 763-6441, Ext 5.Fax: (863) 763-0118.Orlando VA Medical Cente5201 Raymond St., Orlando, FL 32803(407) 629-1599 or (800) 922-7521Telephone Care(407) 599-1404 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon. - Fri. (800) 645-6895 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mon - Fri (321) 637-3625 Viera patients8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mon. - Fri. (877) 741-3400 Weekends, holidays, evenings and nights
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Vietnam veterans shoot benefits many
Draw a bead on the third Viet-nam Veterans Sporting Clays Fun Shoot. It’ll be on March 1, at South Florida Shooting Club, 500 S.W. Long Drive, Palm City. Among other things, proceeds will help the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041 give three Martin County High School Ju-nior ROTC students scholarships. Monies raised will also help local veterans with needs ranging from food to car repairs, along with helping some find jobs. “We raised, netted, $15, 000
for the shoot last year,” George Tidikis, chapter treasurer, said. “We also did a raffle of a helmet, a military diver’s helmet. One of our members was an Army diver. He donated the helmet. Raffling that off, we raised $2,500. We were able to give (Martin County Veterans Service Office super-visor) Tony Reese a check for $17,500.” Last year the Vietnam Veter-
ans of America’s Chapter 1041 had an idea. What if the Martin County Veterans Service Office supervisor, Reese, had a pot of money to help cash-strapped
veterans? Normally Reese fills his days helping veterans file claims and appeals to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But, a few times a month he gets veterans who need things the VA doesn’t offer. Used to be that Reese would
pull out his Rolodex and start calling veterans organizations for donations to those folks. The guys at VVA 1041 just didn’t like the thought of hungry veterans waiting for Reese to get a hold of people for help. So, they told him about their idea: a rapid-response fund that he could tap immedi-ately. Reese thought the upstart chap-
ter meant $500, $1,000. After all, it had maybe 70 some members, right? He said getting a $17,500 rapid-response account bowled him over. “It makes my job 10 times easi-
er,” he said. “I don’t have to think how to get (a veteran in need) help. I can focus on what help (he or she) needs.”In November, only one veteran
tapped the rapid-response fund. By the end of that month, the fund had $12,346.40. “In December, we (helped) six
guys,” Reese said. “It varied from rent and gas money to auto re-pairs.” Those six veterans got a com-
bined $1,900 from the rapid-re-sponse fund. The now 78-members chapter
gave three Junior ROTC students $1,000 each back in May. It aims to give scholarships to three more this school year. The chapter is
also helping veterans hunting for work with Veteran Connection, a job-seeking assistance program. Veteran Connection is a joint
Patrick McCallisterFor Veteran Voice
Staff photo by Patrick McCallisterEd Maxwell, vice president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041, assess-es the scene at Veteran Connection. The chapter helped organize the veterans job fair at Indian River State College in October, last year, along with the United Way of Martin County. The job fair attracted almost 40 employers wanting to hire veterans with around 80 jobs to offer.
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Thunderbirds, Blue Angels 2014 show schedule packed
The skies will resound to the roar of the Air Force Thunder-birds and Navy Blue Angels in a packed schedule for 2014, the Department of Defense has an-nounced.Once again, Florida will host
several of the shows, including appearances at Vero Beach and Melbourne.The two teams’ schedules in
2013 were curtailed after the gov-ernment shutdown following dis-sension over raising the national debt ceiling.For the Thunderbirds — official-
ly known as the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron — the first appearance in 2014, slated for New Year’s Day, will take place in Pasadena, Calif., at the opening of the Tournament of Roses Parade, according to a re-lease by the demonstration team. The Thunderbirds’ season will finish up Nov. 8 and 9 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The Blue Angels won’t begin
their season until March 15, with a show at Naval Air Facility, El Centro, Calif., according to a team release. They, too, will con-clude their season in November, with appearances Nov. 7 and 8 at
the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. The following are upcoming
Florida shows:
Thunderbirds: Feb. 23: Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach March 22 and 23: MacDill Air Force Base (Tampa) March 29 and 30: Punta Gorda Oct. 4 and 5: Melbourne Oct. 11 and 12: Daytona Beach
Blue Angels: April 5 and 6: Lakeland May 10 and 11: Vero Beach July 12: Pensacola Beach Oct. 25 and 26: Jacksonville Beach
The remainder of the Thunder-birds’ schedule is as follows:
March 9: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas March 15 and 16: Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. April 5 and 6: Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. April 12 and 13: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. April 26 and 27: Barksdale Air Force Base, La. May 3 and 4: Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
May 10 and 11: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. May 17 and 18: Youngstown Air Reserve Base, Ohio May 24 and 25: Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. May 28: U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. May 31 and June 1: Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. June 7 and 8: Rockford, Ill. June 14 and 15: Ocean City, Md. June 21 and 22: Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. June 28 and 29: Hill Air Force Base, Utah July 5 and 6: Battle Creek,
Mich. July 12 and 13: Fair Oaks, In. July 15: Target Field, Minneapolis July 23: Cheyenne, Wyo. July 26 and 27: JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Aug. 2 and 3: Oshkosh, Wis. Aug. 9 and 10: Ypsilanti, Mich. Aug. 13: Atlantic City, N.J. Aug. 16 and 17: Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 23 and 24: Waterloo, Iowa
Mary KemperFor Veteran Voice
Photos courtesy of U.S. Air ForceAir Force Thunderbird pilots conduct practice maneuvers before an air show in Up-land, Calif., in 2012.
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Martin vet played tennis with legends(Second of two parts)
In 1931, Joseph Verner Reed and his wife, Permelia Pryor Reed, founded the Jupiter Island Club. The tennis courts at the select club were a popular place for visiting celebrities to let off steam. One of their sons, Nathan-iel Reed, is still active in local and statewide environmental issues.Bill Oughterson was a young
man, still in high school, when he began playing there.“Joseph and dad became good
friends,” Oughterson said. “When people came down who were not real tennis players, they called us.”The younger Oughterson, who
played tennis at Stuart High School, would go on to captain the University of Florida ten-nis team in 1949 and become a professional tennis umpire. More about that later.Last week, I wrote about Bill
Oughterson’s professional and private accomplishments. For the second part of the series, he opened up about two legends whose paths he crossed in very different ways.Oughterson and his father, T.T.,
went to the Jupiter Island Club to play tennis with a pretty fair am-ateur player, Katharine Hepburn. He played her twice and one time, she brought her sister, Peg, for doubles.“Kate and Bill had 6 and Dad
and Sis had 4,” Oughterson re-called. “She and I beat my father and her sister.”Oughterson, still a teen, was a
little star-struck about being with Hepburn, and he left his auto-graph book behind. Soon after, he and the rest of the high school were at an assembly.“Somebody came to the door,
Oughterson said. “I was in the front row as a senior. They said, ‘Billy, a lady wants to see you.’” I opened the door. Everybody rec-ognized her. She handed me my book and I apologized profusely. She was just fun. I was very im-pressed. She was a friendly and normal lady.”The young man’s status in
school jumped quite a bit after that episode.Oughterson’s activities as an
umpire garnered him some na-tional notoriety. At a match in South Florida, he was umpiring
when Chris Evert was playing. He called a foot fault on her at an important point.“She pursed her lips,” Ough-
terson said. “Her parents were seated above and behind me and I knew them, although not well. They smiled.”It was Bud Collins, dean of the
tennis commentators, who had the last word.“I called a foot fault on Chris
Evert and Bud Collins looked up my name and said, ‘He’s from Florida. Doesn’t he know you don’t call a foot fault on Chris Evert in Florida?’”Oughterson said he got sever-
al calls from, people he knew aroused the country who heard the broadcast.”Oughterson also played with for-
mer heavy weight champion Gene Tunney and Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, who oversaw the Manhattan Project that developed the bomb during World War II.It was heady stuff, but Oughter-
son remains humble about his accomplishments and acquain-tances. Many who know him are unaware of them. He will talk about them when asked, but he is not trying to impress. He has no need for that.Today, when you call Bill Ough-
terson, his wife, Leila, is likely to tell you he’s out doing his exer-cises. He is living his life as he al-ways has, and it’s a life well-lived. It has been my privilege to get to know him, if only a little bit.
Shelley Koppel is a staff writer for Your Voice News & Views.
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Photos courtesy of U.S. Air ForceAir Force Thunderbird pilots conduct practice maneuvers before an air show in Upland, Calif., in 2012.
Aug. 30 and 31: Kalispell, Mont. Sep. 13 and 14: Altus Air Force Base, Okla. Sep. 20 and 21: Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho Sep. 27 and 28: Salinas, Calif. Oct. 18 and 19: Rome, Ga. Oct. 25 and 26: Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 1 and 2: Santa Teresa, N.M.
The remainder of the Blue An-gels’ schedule is as follows:
March 15: Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif.
March 22 and 23: March Air Reserve Base, Calif.
March 29 and 30: Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas
April 12 and 13: Fort Smith, Ark.
April 26 and 27: Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas
May 3 and 4: St Louis May 17 and 18: Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C.
May 21: Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
May 23: Naval Academy May 24 and 25: Jones Beach, N.Y.
May 31 and June 1: La Crosse, Wis.
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July 19 and 20: Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
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Sept. 27 and 28: Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Oct. 4 and 5: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif.
Oct. 11 and 12: San Francisco Oct. 18 and 19: Millington, Tenn.
Nov. 1 and 2: Houston
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prone to hyperbole or emotional outbursts. “Worst case ever I’ve worked on,”
he said. “The saddest one. It’s total (expletive) for the veteran.” That’s today. Let’s go back to
the start of Conti’s tale. Dugway. When he walked into Haddox’s office, Conti told him that’s where he’d served until 1956. Haddox had 20 years in the Navy and a decade as a service officer. There weren’t many new base names for him to hear. “I told him I’d never heard of
the place,” Haddox said. “I asked him, ‘What is Dugway?”Put simply, Dugway is the kind
of place that crops up in spy nov-els and movies about man-made apocalypses. The base is still around. Even has a website. “They were doing all kinds of
tests,” Conti said. “They never told us what they were testing.”As his stateside deployment
rolled on, Conti got a growing unease about where he was. The cook was up early in the morn-ings and saw things. He saw worrisome things. “I’d go to throw out food in the
morning, and I’d see dead ani-mals with lumps,” he said. “Hors-es, big horses, dead with lumps.” Then, he started getting those
same lumps. “I said, ‘What are all these lumps
on my body?’” Conti said. “They said don’t worry about it.’ They said, ‘Don’t worry about it; we’ll take care of it.’”Military doctors removed those
lumps, but took Conti off cooking duty. He became a clerk until his deployment ended. Those lumps kept growing while Conti was at Dugway, and after he left. “I’ve had 50, 60 surgeries to
remove all these lumps on my body,” he said. Then in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s,
Conti had a tumor tree growing at the base of his spine. Sur-geons removed it. The largest part weighed in at 5 pounds. Later he developed mouth cancer. “I’ve been trying to get some
recognition of something that happened to me out there,” Conti said. “I told John (Haddox), I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, so it seems not right that I have cancer in my palate.” Lumps. Tumors. Cancer. All of it
starting at Dugway, Conti said. “It started when he was in the
service,” Haddox said. “(A claim) should have been a slam dunk.”But, it’s wasn’t. There are a cou-
ple reasons for that, Haddox and Conti said. One is the secrecy that surrounds Dugway. “(The VA) wanted him to tell
them what chemicals he was exposed to,” Haddox said. “He doesn’t know that. This stuff was secret.” The other problem is the 1973
fire at the National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis. The fire famously destroyed millions of service records — including
Conti’s Army medical records that he says would show his lumps started at Dugway. “I said, ‘Where is my record of
that?’” he said. “No one can give me a record of that. They say all my records burned in the St.
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerU.S. Army veteran Sal Conti of Hobe Sound uses a dinner roll to give perspective of the size of a tumor removed from the base of his spine over 40 years ago. Conti is seeking answers regarding his medical conditions since serving at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Conti’s time served corresponds with the Dugway Sheep Kill incident where sev-eral thousand sheep were killed by a nerve agent in 1968.
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Louis fire.” Without records, the Hobe
Sound man doesn’t have much left for making claims, or seeking
answers. “My story is my scars, and
the government doesn’t pay for scars,” Conti said. “That’s what someone told me: ‘Mr. Conti, the VA does not pay for scars.’”
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project with the United Way of Martin County.Veteran Connection included
a series of employment-hunting and career-development classes that culminated in an October job fair at Indian River State College’s Chastain Campus, Stuart. “We had 38 employers with 80
job openings,” Tidikis said. “Un-fortunately, we had 40 veterans show up. We went back to the drawing board: ‘OK, where did we go wrong promoting it.’” There’ll be another Veteran Con-
nection job fair at the campus in April. All the chapter’s activity gets a
bunch of attention around Flori-da. Ben Humphries — state pres-ident, VVA Florida State Council — said all of the state’s 27 chap-ters are wonderful, but there’s something about the Martin boys. “They are a brand-new chapter,
but they hit the ground run-ning,” he said. “They’ve been very involved in the community and
always looking for a way to help veterans in need.” According to the Florida De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, there are about 500,000 Vietnam veterans in the Sunshine State. They make up almost a third of the state’s veterans population. Martin County has about 14,700 veterans. It likely has almost 5,000 Vietnam-era veterans. George Mittler, 1041’s presi-
dent, said that with fundraising success proving outreach tactics, VVA 1041 is turning more of its attention to getting those veter-ans signed up. “We try to dig them up out of the
woodwork,” he said.Membership is open to all veter-
ans who served in Vietnam from February 1961 to May 1975, and all veterans who served from Au-gust 1964 to May 1975. Meetings are on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. They’re held at Sewall’s Point Town Hall, 1 S. Sewall’s Point Road. To find out more about the fund-
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