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TREASURE COAST — South-east Florida Honor Flight is getting ready to spread its wings again to give area World War II veterans a chance to see the me-morial dedicated to them on the National Mall. “We fly in certain times of the

year,” Michael Roberts, chairman, said. “Obviously it’s way to hot in (Washington, D.C.) right now, and in winter it’s too cold.” The next one-day trips are

scheduled for Sept. 7 and Oct. 19. The local Honor Flight group, called a “hub,” won’t have flights again until spring. The flights depart and arrive at the Palm Beach International Airport. Mar-tin County Commissioner Doug Smith of Jensen Beach will be on the Sept. 7 flight as a guardian, a volunteer who spends the day with a veteran. This is his fifth Honor Flight as a guardian.“There’s the amazement of what

these veterans go through over that 15-hour or so period of time,” he said. “It’s amazing to

Southeast Honor Flight to fly again

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerJulie and Bill Paterson of St. Lucie County welcome home Alvin Silverman of Port St. Lucie during the return of an Honor Flight for veterans in May. The next Honor Flight takes place on Sept. 7.

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Take-off scheduledfor Sept. 7

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Veteran uses military skills to turn Palm City company into one to watch

PALM CITY — Custom Agro-nomics will never be a household name, but it is a company to watch. “We are a manufacturer of

liquid fertilizers, bio-stimulants and specialty chemicals for the golf and agriculture industries,” co-owner Mike Williams said.Williams is a 1995 graduate of

the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He served until 2000, mostly at Fort Benning, Ga. He made captain, and said the mili-tary experience greatly prepared him for business success. “Certainly organizational skills,

management skills,” he said. “Doing more than you have time to do.” A glance inside his office shows

how deeply the military experi-ence shapes Williams’ work life. Proudly displayed on his desk is his West Point shako, stovepipe hat. On Monday, Aug. 5, GrowFL

named Customer Agronomics as

one of its 50 Florida companies to watch, Getting on the annual list is a coveted prize among young companies. The Business Development

Board of Martin County nomi-nated Custom Agronomics. Tim Dougher, executive director, said that being named among Grow-FL’s companies to watch helps companies in many business circles. He said it was impres-sive that Martin County had two finalists. The other was a Stuart company. “It’s definitely an honor for these

tWo companies and puts them on the map for the future,” he said. Williams said Custom Agronom-

ics isn’t constricted to creating a product line customers can take or leave. It has developed a way to customize its products to buy-ers’ needs. “We have a patent-pending tech-

nology that allows us to do some things no one else in the world can do,” he said. Custom Agronomics does those

things with silica. “Silica has been used in agricul-

ture for quite a while,” Williams

said. “If you apply the right form to a plant, it can make the plant tougher. It’s always been very difficult to work with silica.” He went on to explain, “(Silica)

has a lot of benefits, and people have always understood the ben-efits, but it’s very difficult to mix

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Staff photo by Patrick McCallisterU.S. Army veteran Mike Williams is co-owner of Custom Agronomics, a Palm City company recently named by an industry group as one of 50 “companies to watch” in Florida.

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watch.”He added, “It gets ridiculously

emotional. You have these men and women who a long time ago played a significant role in our nation’s history — to a person, they all say what they did was the norm; it’s what anyone would do.”Smith and other guardians don’t

just volunteer to spend a day with the veterans. They pay $400 to watch after them. Money well spent, Smith said. He’s worked with at least a dozen charities, but Honor Flight has been one of his favorites. “Anyone who participates gets

more than they can imagine out of it,” Smith said. “It’s really cool to see how well done it is. It is the best run volunteer organization I’ve ever been a part of.” The veterans pay … well, Honor

Flight figures they paid for the trip with their service. Taryn Kryzda, Martin’s county

administrator, went on an Honor Flight to accompany her father, a World War II veteran. She said it was among the most emotional times she’s shared with him. She, of course, paid $400 to go. “I wanted to buy his ticket, too,

and they said, ‘No way,’ she said. “We pay for the veterans all the way.” The Honor Flight Network is a

national program with dozens of hubs. The National World War II Memorial was erected in 2004. The Honor Flights began, almost by accident, a year later. Honor Flight Southeast Florida start-ed in 2009. The local hub also

started Operation Homecoming at its April 27 flight this year. It organized hundreds to be at the airport after the April and May flights to greet the returning vet-erans. The hub is organizing the return greetings for its September

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and October flights, too. Martin County Commissioner

John Haddox of Palm City said the county’s current veterans ser-vice office supervisor, Tony Reese, more or less got the hub started. Haddox was the office’s super-visor at the time. He retired and ran for the Commission last year. “We were at a county veterans

service officers conference, and a guy from the (Florida) West Coast mentioned (Honor Flight),” Had-dox said. “Tony asked me if he could organize a meeting about it. I told him that’s fine.” Haddox said he was busy with

other veterans projects, and felt Reese was doing a great job with Honor Flight. He made a manage-ment decision to stay out of his way. “They took it — it took off like

crazy,” Haddox said. “It was coor-dinated by the county’s veterans service office.” Among those who got involved

early on was the Martin Coun-ty Firefighters and Paramedics, International Association of Fire Fighters 2959 -- which organized and leads what’s turned out to be the largest fundraiser each year for the flights -- an annual fill-the-boot drive. Firefighters from Martin County and other agen-cies head out to parking lots to ask folks to fill firefighters’ boots with money.

And fill they do. “Our average weekend is

$55,000 a weekend, over three days,” John Davidson, president of the union said. “One thing about Honor Flight,

100 percent of what we get off the street goes to Honor Flight,” he added. Davidson is also the operations

coordinator for the local hub. He makes certain there are planes, buses, food, emergency medical care and anything else the veter-ans will need ready for them. He said veterans pay nothing for the Honor Flight trips, making fund-raising critical. After all, Honor Flight isn’t getting a few tickets for each flight; it rents a whole plane. Sometimes two. “The whole flight with buses,

police escorts and food, it’s about $80,000 a trip,” Davidson said. “The planes about $55,000, $60,000.”The average trip sends 85 to 90

veterans to D.C., Roberts said. In addition to volunteer guard-

ians paying their ways, and the boot drive, Southeast Florida Honor Flight has other fundrais-ers through the year. But, David-son said the hub still depends on people acting on their own. “If we didn’t have all the indi-

vidual donations, we couldn’t do

FLIGHT from page 1

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerWorld War II veteran Peter Minicucci shakes hands with people in the crowd welcoming him and a team of veterans home during the return of an Honor Flight for veterans last May at the Palm Beach International Airport. The next Honor Flight takes place on September 7.

See FLIGHT page 5

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this,” he said. “We’re looking at $250,000, really more like $300,000, a year to do this.”Surrounding everything

Honor Flight does is a sense of urgency. It can’t last for-ever, because World War II veterans won’t. According to an Associated

Press estimate, the once 16.1 million World War II veterans are dying at a rate of more than 1,100 a day. Only about 2 million are living, according to a recent report by the De-partment of Veterans Affairs.No one has an exact daily

mortality count, but the VA, AP and others have developed the same estimate by using long-form census data, VA data, and standard mortal-ity tables. The VA estimates that America will have almost no World War II veterans by 2020. If the oldest lives as long as Frank Buckles — the last surviving American World War I serviceman — America will lose its last World War II veteran in 24 years, 2037.Buckles died in 2011 at age

110. The youngest World War II veterans were born in 1927 and are 86. In addition to Honor Flight

Southeast Florida there’s an-other local hub, Space Coast Honor Flight. That volunteer group takes 25 veterans a trip. It has a flight scheduled for Aug. 24. That flight will be from the Orlando Internation-al Airport. It also has flights scheduled for Sept. 28 and Oct. 19. Honor Flight Southeast Flor-

ida is on the web at honor-flightsefl.org. Space Coast Honor Flight is at spacecoast-honorflight.org. For more about the nation-

al Honor Flight Network, see honorflight.org. Information about the Washington, D.C. World War II Monument is at wwiimemorial.com.

FLIGHT from page 4A battle remembered

In the spring of 1944, the 28th Division, 109th

Infantry, was was engaged in the Italian campaign at the crossing of the Volturno River. The Ger-mans had stalled the allied forces in a last effort to save Rome. Action was furious, with day and night bombardment. Private Steven E. Munchak, a medic, was there. This was war! Munchak was born in Scranton, Penn., mar-

ried, and a licensed mortician when drafted to the Army in 1943 at age 22. He had previous service with his unit from 1937 through 1939 with basic and medic training he was shipped with his unit to North Africa then to northern Sicily during the Montgomery campaign. In December 1943, the di-vision moved on to Italy and in December 1943 on to eastern Italy (Anzio). By spring, the campaign was stalled with furious combat on both sides, a horrible stalemate. Rome was the allied goal but the Germans stood firm. The Volturno River was the battleground. Many bodies of dead soldiers were reported floating in this Italian river. Until Italy, Steve Munchak hadn’t experienced

intense combat, though as a mortician, he was familiar with death.Conditions were minimal with two-person bun-

ker living. The medical aid bunker wasn’t much bigger. The Axis forces made daily artillery barrages

and night air raids with phosphorus clouds de-scending from German flares engulfing the battle-grounds. Here wounded and dying soldiers were tended

to by Munchak, wounded and dying soldiers left a deep depression on him which today is termed “traumatic brain syndrome.” To this day, the 93-year-old veteran’s emotions

arise when talking about war to the point of tears. His subsequent discharge was given on Oct. 30, 1944, on the basis of mental and physical disabil-ity which was classified as permanent. He returned home to his wife and a newborn

baby girl. Years later, he retired from the post office and moved to Sebastian, where he now

resides. He tells an interesting story about the infamous

“Axis Sally,” an American citizen broadcasting propaganda for the Axis forces in Rome to the Allied Forces. G.I. Joes were amused by her radio programs coming from the Excelsior Hotel in Rome. In March 1944, a task force was organized with the mission of capturing her at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome. Steve Munchak was included as its medic. Leaving the battle lines, working north-west to Rome, the task force braved screeching stuka dive bombing and German scouting along the approach. The attempt failed as “Axis Sally’’ eluded the troops that occupied the Excelsior Hotel. On the second floor, General Mark Clark established his planning area. In the next room was the medical aid station manned by Pvt. Steve Munchak ...

And another one on the horizon as VA reduces WWII vet’s disability status

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VA reaches out to veterans about the health care law

WASHINGTON — The Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs has launched an awareness campaign and a new website, www.va.gov/aca, to let veterans know what the Affordable Care Act means for them and their families. Veterans receiving health care

from the Department of Veterans Affairs will see no change in their benefits or out-of-pocket costs when portions of the Affordable Care Act take effect next year. “VA wants all veterans to receive

health care that improves their health and well-being,” said Eric K. Shinseki, secretary of Veterans

Affairs. “If you are enrolled in VA health care, you do not need to take any additional steps to meet the health care law coverage stan-dards. If you are not enrolled in VA health care, you can apply at any time. “VA encourages eligible Veterans

who are not enrolled in VA’s health care system to take advantage of the world-class care we provide to the men and women who have served this Nation in uniform.” Shinseki added.Veterans can apply for VA health

care at any time by visiting www.va.gov/healthbenefits/enroll, call-ing 1-877-222-VETS (8387), or visiting their local VA health care facility. Full details on eligibility are available at www.va.gov/opa/

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American Revolution (1775-1783)Total U.S. Servicemembers1 217,000Battle Deaths 4,435Non-mortal Woundings 6,188War of 1812 (1812-1815)Total U.S. Servicemembers 286,730Battle Deaths 2,260Non-mortal Woundings 4,505Indian Wars (approx. 1817-1898)Total U.S. Servicemembers (VA estimate) 106,000Battle Deaths (VA estimate) 1,000Mexican War (1846-1848)Total U.S. Servicemembers 78,718Battle Deaths 1,733Other Deaths (In Theater) 11,550Non-mortal Woundings 4,152Civil War (1861-1865)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Union) 2,213,363Battle Deaths (Union) 140,414Other Deaths (In Theater) (Union) 224,097Non-mortal Woundings (Union) 281,881Total Servicemembers (Conf.) 2 1,050,000Battle Deaths (Confederate) 3 74,524Other Deaths (In Theater) (Confederate) 3, 4 59,297Non-mortal Woundings (Confederate) UnknownSpanish-American War (1898-1902)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Worldwide)

306,760Battle Deaths 385Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 2,061Non-mortal Woundings 1,662World War I (1917-1918)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Worldwide) 4,734,991Battle Deaths 53,402Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 63,114Non-mortal Woundings 204,002Living Veterans 0World War II (1941 –1945)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Worldwide) 16,112,566Battle Deaths 291,557Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 113,842Non-mortal Woundings 670,846Living Veterans 5 1,711,000______________________________Korean War (1950-1953)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Worldwide) 5,720,000Total Serving (In Theater) 1,789,000Battle Deaths 33,739Other Deaths (In Theater) 2,835Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 17,672Non-mortal Woundings 103,284Living Veterans 2,275,000Vietnam War (1964-1975)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Worldwide) 6 8,744,000Deployed to Southeast Asia 7 3,403,000

America’s warsFrom the U.S. Department

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Photo courtesy of Barney P. GiordanWorld War II vet Steven Munchak at his home in Sebastian.

One final item: Steven A. Munchak has been on 100 percent disability since his discharge in October 1944, but recently reduced to 80 percent by the Veterans Administra-tion. Now they are trying to go further down to 60 percent to this wheelchair-confined vet-eran at age 93. Is that any way to treat a WWII veteran who served his country in combat?

MUNCHAK from page 5

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Battle Deaths 8 47,434Other Deaths (In Theater) 8 10,786Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 8 32,000Non-mortal Woundings 9 153,303Living Veterans 5, 10 7,391,000Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1990-1991)Total U.S. Servicemembers (Worldwide) 2,322,000Deployed to Gulf 694,550Battle Deaths 148Other Deaths (In Theater) 235Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 1,565Non-mortal Woundings 467Living Veterans 5, 10 2,244,583America’s Wars Total (1775 -1991)U.S. Military Service during Wartime 41,892,128Battle Deaths 651,031Other Deaths (In Theater) 308,800Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 230,279Non-mortal Woundings 1,431,290Living War Veterans11 16,962,000Living Veterans (Periods of War & Peace) 23,234,000Global War on Terror (Oct 2001 - )The Global War on Terror (GWOT), in-cluding OperationEnduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF),are ongoing conflicts. For the most cur-

rent GWOT statistics,visit the following Department of De-fense Website:http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/gwot_component.pdf______________________________America’s Wars Fact Sheet, May 2013American RevolutionLast Veteran, Daniel F. Bakeman,died 4/5/1869, age 109Last Widow, Catherine S. Damon,died 11/11/06, age 92Last Dependent, Phoebe M. Palmeter,died 4/25/11, age 90Mexican WarLast Veteran, Owen Thomas Edgar,died 9/3/29, age 98Last Widow, Lena James Theobald,died 6/20/63, age 89Last Dependent, Jesse G. Bivens,died 11/1/62, age 94War of 1812Last Veteran, Hiram Cronk,died 5/13/05, age 105Last Widow, Carolina King,died 6/28/36, age unknownLast Dependent, Esther A.H. Morgan,died 3/12/46, age 89Civil WarLast Union Veteran, Albert Woolson,died 8/2/56, age 109Last Confederate Veteran, John Salling,

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died 3/16/58, age 112Last Union Widow, Gertrude Janeway,died 1/17/2003, age 93Indian WarsLast Veteran, Fredrak Fraske,died 6/18/73, age 101Spanish-American WarLast veteran, Nathan E. Cook,died 9/10/92, age 106World War ILast Veteran, Frank Buckles,died 2/27/11, age 110

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9/30/14….…....1,002,000 9/30/15……....….843,000 9/30/16……….....727,000 9/30/17……….....614,0009/30/18…....…....494,000 9/30/19…………...374,000 9/30/20………......257,000 9/30/21………......210,0009/30/22………......167,000 9/30/23………......127,000 9/30/24……...........87,000 9/30/25………........49,0009/30/26………........40,000 9/30/27………...…..32,000 9/30/28………........24,000 9/30/29………........15,000.* Estimates have changed based on new population projections.

NOTES:

1. Exact number is unknown. Posted figure is the median of estimatedrange from 184,000 – 250,000.

2. Exact number is unknown. Posted figure is median of estimatedrange from 600,000 – 1,500,000.

3. Death figures are based on incomplete returns.

4. Does not include 26,000 to 31,000 who died in Union prisons.

5. Estimate based upon new population projection methodology.

6. Covers the period 8/5/64 - 1/27/73 (date of cease fire)

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9. Excludes 150,341 not requiring hospi-tal care

10. Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) estimate, as of 4/09, doesnot include those still on active duty and may include veterans whoserved in Iraq and Afghanistan.

11. Total will be more than sum of con-flicts due to no “end date”established for Persian Gulf War.Source: Department of Defense (DOD), except living veterans, which are VA estimates as of September 2010.

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SAVE $9,196SAVE $8,400

2013 F-1504X2 XLTREG. CAB! 10 TO CHOOSE! #13526

$23,720MSRP $32,120 NOW JUST

2013 F-150SUPER CAB XLT 2WD #13430

$26,499MSRP $35,695 NOW JUST

2013 F-150SUPER CREW XLT60 TO CHOOSE! #13933

$29,915MSRP $39,415 NOW JUST

SAVE $9,500

2013 FOCUSSE #131091

$229/ MO

2013 FUSIONSE #131225

$279

SIGN&RIDE$0 CASH DUE AT SIGNING36 MO. RED CARPET LEASESECURITY DEPOSIT WAIVEDPLUS TAX, TITLE & DEALER FEES.

2013 ESCAPESE #131757

$279/ MO / MO

WAS $13,999

WAS $13,999

WAS $16,999

WAS $45,999

WAS $15,999

SAVE $7,000

2013 TAURUS SELSEL PACKAGE #13003

$24,890WAS $31,890 NOW JUST

USED PRICE ROLLBACK! WE’LL BUY YOUR CAR EVEN IF YOU DON’T BUY OURS!

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JUSTARRIVED!

JUSTARRIVED!

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