1931

If any of you attended the VE or VJ Day 50th-anniversary reunions of your WW II military units, I'd like to receive your reports thereof for inclusion in the column at a future date. My unit is planning a reunion in Salzburg (the farthest point of the advance of our 7th Army) and environs in May, but it sounds like a lot of hassle for this geezer, so I don't plan to attend. I shall leave the party to those young squirts, who did most of the heavy lifting anyway, back in 1944-45.

That note about WW II prompts me to report that Ed Rothschild, a platoon lieutenant in Merrill's Marauders in the 1944-45 Burma operation in which we lost Fred Roe, left; us on January 10. Of all of our classmates, Ed was probably the one who received the most national and international publicity. This came about as a result of his stand as an attorney and president of the Illinois chapter of the ACLU during the highly controversial 1977 Skokie, Ill., incident which, I'm sure, many readers will remember.

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