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Let Us Give Thanks for the Life of a Courageous, Honest and Honorable Man this Thanksgiving Day

Honor Maj.Richard Felman and DO Something to Help Restore America's Honor!

By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources, (http://www.originalsources.com)

November 24-28th 1999

Early in the Spring of 1999 as the incredible war of propaganda against the Serbs was in full bloom, when all the official sources in Washington, London and Brussels were whipping up a climate of hate against the Serbs, claiming they were killing "up to 100,000" poor defenseless Albanians in order to justify bombing Yugoslavia, a frail, elderly man, a veteran Air Force pilot from World War II, stood up and told an uninformed world a very different story, which I printed on April 6, 1999. (See http://originalsources.com/OS4-99MQC/4-6-1999.1.html)

That valiant man, I learned today from a reader, Martha Z. Zatezalo of Weirton, WV, died last week in Tucson, Arizona. He died just as many fair-minded Americans are beginning to agonize over the realization that they were duped into hating Serbs by lies broadcast worldwide from a terrorist organization determined to kill or drive out everyone in Kosovo, to ethnically cleanse Kosovo, of all who did not support them, whether they are Serb or Albanian, Jew or Gypsy, Turkish or Egyptian, Goran or Montenegrin.

As we pause to gather with our families this Thanksgiving to consider our blessings, let's give thanks for the life of this valiant man, Major Richard Felman, who tried to his dying breath to tell you the truth in a blizzard of lies about the Serbs. And, let's do more than just feel bad for what has happened. Let's spend this week-end DOING something to show our appreciation for him by sending checks in his memory to help relieve the suffering of the over one million Serb and other refugees who have fled to Serbia from Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo and who are suffering from cold and hunger this winter. (see below addresses to send your contributions to) Martha Z. Zatezalo wrote: "Major Felman told me last spring, during the bombing of Belgrade,( after he wrote an open letter to all active servicemen and women not to fear the Serbs,), that he would try "with every breath left in this body" to get the word out for national recognition of General Draza Mihailovich and the Chetniks for their heroism and for recognition of the Halyard Mission. "The Major never let up in his attempts." Below is a speech by Major Felman that tells the story of the Halyard Mission. Read it to your children this Thanksgiving week-end and then allow them to help you put together boxes to send to Serbia for a child their age. Let them share their OWN toys with children in Serbia of all ethnic groups who are living without heat in their homes because of bombs we dropped on their heating plants.


Richard J. Felman (Major, USAF Retired) was keynote speaker at one of the Chicago commemorations. In 1994, on the 50th anniversary of D-Day / Normandy, one of the commemorations honored the heroism of Vojvoda Dragoljub "Drazha" Mihajlovic and his Chetniks.
Richard J. Felman, Major (USAF Retired)
1921-1999
SLAVA MU
SHALOM

edited transcript of his speech:

Distinguished guests...
Reverend clergy...
Fellow airmen who were with me when we were shot down over Yugoslavia in 1944 and...
Bracho i Sestre... (Brothers and Sisters).

Before I say a single word, I must first express my everlasting gratitude to the City of Chicago and the Department of Defense today, for honoring the Halyard Mission. Until now, one of the most glorious moments in American history, has been one of the best kept secrets of World War II.

Today, in Chicago, U.S.A., a dream came true for our group of former MIAs. There is no way to describe the enormous significance of what happened today at Daley Plaza. After 50 years, those of us who participated in the Halyard Mission reached the top of the mountain after a long journey to repay a long overdue debt of honor...Our debt is not only a personal debt, it is a national debt of the United States government and its people. It took Moses only 40 years to reach the Promised Land...It took us a little longer...

Today, we've reached the promised land...recognition of the greatest rescue of American lives from behind enemy lines in the history of warfare...

Just imagine the significance of what I just said. Over 500 Americans and 250 Allied personnel were saved from behind enemy lines, and to this day, it's been covered up, and nobody knows about it. The American people do not know about it to join us in saying 'Thank you.'

As we laid the wreath today in Daley Plaza, we not only honored the Halyard Mission and those saved by it, we also honored those responsible for saving us...and I am thrilled to see so many of those people sitting in our audience today. It's difficult to communicate the emotion that the airmen feel at being joined with the Serbian Chetniks who rescued us. Today, for the first time, we saw them, after fifty years...How do you say 'Thank You'...

How do you say 'Thank You' to people who saved your life. Some people say to me, 'Why are you doing this after fifty years?' When somebody saves your life, what do you say -- 'Thank you, Charlie, I'll see you tomorrow?' When people thank me for doing a wonderful thing for the Serbs, I don't buy that. If it weren't for the Serbian people, I wouldn't be here.

Today is the first time in fifty years that the American airmen and the Serbian Chetniks are Gathered in one place. This is a tremendous event. I wish I could communicate... .

It's hard to transmit...I get all choked up, but...if these Chetniks hadn't risked their lives, the airmen you see in this room wouldn't be here...the airmen that they saved across the country wouldn't be here...neither would their children or their grandchildren, who today can walk freely in this country. They are living memorials of the Halyard Mission and the fact that the Serbian people saved them. They are walking in this country today because of General Mihailovich and the Serbian Chetniks.

And to me today, in Daley Plaza, American honor was served. I say that, because today, for the first time in my memory, the American people could join us in a public forum to say "Thank You General Mihailovich and the Chetnik people for saving 500 American lives while we were fighting in defense of our country."

Nobody else, in the entire history of the United States government has ever said that, and today the American people joined us in saying 'Thank You, and we appreciate it'

If I digress once in a while, I hope you'll bear with me. I get very emotional about these events, and it's hard to follow a prepared few notes that I put down, so please with an old foggy to get through a very difficult time...

(laughter)

Let me tell you how I first got involved in the Halyard Mission. In early 1944, I completed my flight school training and was given a shiny pair of silver wings and a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. Next thing I knew, I found myself in Lecce, Italy with the 98th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, flying B-24 bombing missions over southern Europe.

Early one morning, before a pre-takeoff briefing on a mission to Ploesti, our American Intelligence officer told us we would be flying over Yugoslavia that day, and to stay away from the Serbian people, because the Serbian people would cut off the ears of American airmen! These were his exact words. This was the information that American Intelligence gave to the bomber crews that were flying out of Italy. The Serbian people will cut off your ears! (laughter)

Now, I heard this, and this is a complete about face from what I read in Time Maqazine. Time Maqazine had a cover story on May 25th of 1942 calling General Mihailovich the greatest guerrilla leader in the history of warfare. So, I said to my Intelligence officer, 'How come I read this in the paper and all of a sudden he does an about face?' He said to me, 'Lieutenant, don't ask questions, just fly your mission. We have reports, top secret reports from British Intelligence...

(rumbling in the audience)

that Mihailovich is now collaborating with the Germans, see..' He says, 'In wartime, these guys, they play around, so just be careful...If you get shot down in Yugoslavia, stay away from the Chetniks. Look for the people with the red star on their hats...Tito's Communists...'

(rumbling in the audience)

I remember this, fifty years ago. I mean, I don't remember what I did last night, but I remember this fifty years ago...

(laughter, applause)

Just after that briefing, we flew off, we bombed Ploesti, we came back, shot down...I parachuted down from 20,000 feet, the next thing I know, I was in Serbia, among the Serbian Chetniks, and the first thing I did was reach for my ears...

(laughter)

Not only did they not cut them off, as you can see, but they grabbed me up, kissed me, put me on their shoulders like a conquering hero...To this day, I could never figure out, why only did the Serbian men kiss me, why don't the women kiss me!

(..laughter...from the audience someone speaks out 'I'll tell you later!')

(..more laughter...)

Since that time, to expose this treacherous propaganda lie, the American airmen have been doing every possible thing we could to expose the thoroughness with which the truth was manipulated by the Communists during World War II. Let me give you a concrete example: I don't believe what I read in the papers...I know what I see...

(applause...)

Let me tell you some techniques of Communist propaganda. I went on some raids with General Mihailovich and the Chetniks...We raided a few German garrisons, forts...very successful...We came back. The next day or so, we turn on the shortwave radio. BBC from London says: 'Tito's Partisans just completed a successful raid at such and such a village' -- the place that we went to just the night before...That's how the truth was manipulated. Now, let me tell you, how would you feel -- I just saw something, and the news reports say 'this didn't happen, something else happened...' --

(..someone from the audience speaks out - 'Just like today, just like today...'Felman smiles and says: 'I'll get to that in a minute.')

(laughter...applause...)

Supposing you go to the Soldier's field here in Chicago. You see the Chicago Bears beat Denver in football. You get home, you put on CNN - they say - "Today, the Denver Broncos wiped out the Chicago Bears."

(laughter)

They complete distort history. Today I'm still baffled by it. Now, the only thing wrong with it was that this was not a football game...this was Serbian people that I lived with - and they would fight for their country and freedom, and the Communists would get credit for it! To this day, this aggravates me. And it's happening today, believe me.

(applause)

As the war stepped up, and we had raids of 250 bomber planes occurring every day in southern Europe, more and more airmen were being shot down in Yugoslavia. Many were sick and wounded and in constant danger of being captured by the Germans. You know, I like that. I never thought of it, but I like the first syllable in "Germans" -- 'Germ' -

(laughter...)

The Americans who were shot down - we had no idea how and if we were ever going to get rescued. Let me explain to you how we faced the difficulty of how we would get back to Italy. We were deep in occupied territory. We had no prearranged rescue plan.

And you can't go to the corner phone booth and call up 15th Air Force Headquarters and say, "Hey, we're down here in Chachak, come rescue us." - They don't know where we are. I was in Chachak, Pranjani, Breznica, Gornji Milanovac - all familiar names, I'm sure to some of you. But more importantly, the very friendly people that we were with, that were saving our lives, were abandoned by the Allies, because of the - can I use the term - screwed up Intelligence of the British.

(laughter...applause)

(A gentleman comes up to the speaker's podium to check his tape recorder - Felman looks at him and says: "Wipe it out.")

(laughter...)

So the days, weeks, and months rolled by, and more and more airmen were getting shot down. We tried to contact headquarters back in Italy, but as I say, if we broadcast in the clear, number one, the Germans would intercept it. Number two, the Americans in Italy would say, 'well maybe this is a trap.' So, we couldn't very well transmit in the clear. We were lucky - a brilliant man by the name of T.K. Oliver - he devised an ingenious system of American slang that the Germans could not intercept. Well, they could intercept it, but they couldn't understand it. But the Americans could, and once they understood it, and approved of it - they said 'this is a legitimate transmission, and they formed the Halyard Mission, the secret Halyard Mission, and the rescue was on. At this time there were 250 of us airmen who had been downed.

The next thing we knew was that the night of August 2nd, 1944, Lieutenant George S. Musulin, his family...Oh, God...

(Felman becomes visibly moved...) His family is sitting right here. George parachuted in our area with two other members of the rescue team: Mike Rajachich and Arthur Jibilian. They brought with them a radio transmitter, an agreed upon code, and an evacuation plan. At the sign of Musulin's team coming in - we didn't know if anyone was coming in to rescue us, but when we saw George, we knew we were not being abandoned and that we were going to get rescued eventually. So when he came in, we let out a yell - you wouldn't believe it - we knew that we were getting out of this place.

The sad part of it was that there was a long delay before he came in. We found out later that the reason that George Musulin and his team was delayed was because the British objected to it. They objected to it, because they did not recognize Mihailovich. So how could they send in an Allied team to someone that doesn't exist. So, they objected to our being rescued. The only way it got approval, was that it went up to the White House, and President Roosevelt interfered, and he said 'I don't give a blank about what the British care - I don't care about embarrassing them - to me the most important thing is saving American lives - the hell with the British!'

(applause...)

I might add that after the war, Churchill admitted that abandoning Mihailovich was one of the biggest mistakes he had made of the war.

(applause...)

Then on the night of August 2nd, August 9th, I'm sorry, Captain Nick Lalich was sent in by the O.S.S. to assist Musulin in the rescue operation. Once they were in place, Lalich, then later Colonel McDowell, working together with Mihailovich's Chetniks, rounded up the Americans and other Allied personnel to carry out the most successful rescue operation of its kind in history. The other Allied personnel consisted of British, French, Canadian, Italian, and Russian troops.

When we came back to our base, there was no way we could talk about it, about our rescue, or express our gratitude, because our rescue had been classified top secret. Then when the war was over, we couldn't tell anybody, because no one cared. But that wasn't the end of the Halyard Mission, because, as you know, it's continuing to this very day, and there's still one more chapter we'd like to finish of national recognition of the Halyard Mission.

(applause...)

Before I get into that phase of it, I would like to share with you the one experience that stands out in my mind about the people who saved our lives.

Returning that day from bombing Ploesti, we were attacked by a group of German M-109 Messerschmitts, caught fire, and were force to bail out from over 20,000 feet. The mention of it scares me now, but I was a little younger then...

(laughter...)

The Germans were in the villages, and they counted our parachutes as they came down. They knew where we were, but they couldn't get to us. So they sent an ultimatum down to General Mihailovich. It said, 'we know you have ten Americans.' Either you return them to us, or we burn down a village of 200 women and children. Now when we heard this, we said, 'well, we're strangers in a foreign land. How can we be responsible for killing 200 women and children. We figured, well, we'll turn ourselves in. The worst that could happen to us is a prisoner of war camp. Maybe we'll escape, but no harm could come to us.'

General Mihailovich said, 'No, absolutely no.' He said, 'Let me tell you something about the Serbian people. We've been fighting our entire history for freedom - ever since Kosovo, Saint Sara, Tsar Lazar - we've been fighting for our freedom, our country, and our land. We have a saying, 'Bolje Grob nego Rob.' (Better dead than a slave.)

(..applause...)

He said, 'Life without freedom means absolutely nothing to the Serbian people.' He said, 'If we return you to your base, and you drop one bomb on our common enemy, the German invader, you'll do more for our country and our freedom than the 200 women...

.(Felman begins to break down ....)

..'the 200 women and children that we love...' He said, 'That is our choice.' And, the next day, I watched the Germans...Oh, God...

(Felman pauses to compose himself..).

The next day, I watched the Germans burn down a village of 200 innocent women and children...You know, you never forget that. Fifty years later, it still bothers me. Today, when I laid that wreath at Daley Plaza, I dedicated it to those 200 women and children. That's the price we pay for our freedom today, in this country.

And not too many people know and are grateful for it.

I may be running over my time, but I'm not going to stop until I finish what I have to say, and they can pull me off... (much applause...) Every one of the airmen sitting here and throughout the country...I believe I can speak with one voice, for every one of them...

(.applause...)

They will all join me in saying that throughout the entire time we were evading capture, no sacrifice was to great for the Serbian people in making us comfortable. It was they who sheltered us in the hills and in their farmhouses, often at great risk to themselves. Those of us who were wounded received whatever medical supplies were available. If there was one slice of bread in the house, or one egg, it went to the American. If there was one blanket or one bed, it went to the American while our Serbian host slept on the bare ground. Many of the peasants were tortured, tortured to death, because they would not tell the Germans where we were. The many heroic stories and sacrifices made on our behalf is something the airmen will never forget.

I recall these sacrifices of 50 years ago every time I read in today's American press that the Serbs are murderers and some sort of two headed monsters.

(applause...)

Those that we met were all fine, decent, God fearing people who were fighting for their freedom and their country. Were it not for them, there would not have been a Halyard Mission, nor would we have survived the war.

To all those all-knowing political analysts and politicians who were in their diapers, literally, when World War II was going on - they know absolutely nothing about the people and the war. I would say to them, if they want to know anything about the Serbian people, to talk to the thousands of American grandchildren who are alive today because of these so called monsters they are condemning.

I would also tell them in the strongest possible terms about the anguish that we Americans would feel to see our fellow Americans go charging in with their guns blazing, to kill some of the very Serbian people who saved our lives. I don't believe our government should return their kindness and sacrifice by killing them.

(applause..).

I was very hesitant, because the American airmen have disassociated themselves from anything political. Our only purpose,-we're not making a political statement,-our one goal is the expression of gratitude for 500 Americans. That's all we want. But because of the situation today, I cannot refrain from saying something about the people who saved our lives. These are the people, who, when we were in trouble, helped us, and we cannot deny them today. To deny the Serbian people who saved us would be like denying the Holocaust ever happened. The Serbian people saved us. There's no two ways about it. This is the message we're trying to get across today - gratitude. I often say if it wasn't for the American airmen, the politicians in Washington would be speaking German today.

(applause...)

After the war was over, as you know, we turned over the government of Yugoslavia to the Communists. They seized upon the opportunity to capture Mihailovich, and in March of 1946, Tito announced to the world that they had captured Mihailovich and were putting him on trial as a war collaborator.

The immediate response was that the airmen he had rescued ran to the newspapers, saying 'How can this be?' I have a book here, a thousand newspaper clippings from 1946 of airmen in the newspapers asking 'How can this be? How can this man who saved our lives be a war collaborator?' 'We want to go to Belgrade. We want to testify on his behalf.' 'This man saved our lives.' 'We don't want to be presumptuous and say - we want to interfere in you internal affairs - but, the government of Yugoslavia was charging him with being a collaborator. How could he be a collaborator? Our lives were testimony that he wasn't.' 'So, we don't want to judge him, we just want to present testimony that our lives were relevant to the charges of collaboration.'

So we flew to Washington. We chartered a plane from Chicago, called it 'a mission for Mihailovich.' There were 22 of us Allied personnel. Two were from Canada. Norman Reid here from the Royal Canadian Air Force...and twenty Americans flew to Washington. We were met by congressmen and senators, and we petitioned the State Department to send a diplomatic note to Yugoslavia to request permission to appear at his trial, presenting evidence relative to the charges of war collaboration. The State Department sent two notes to the Belgrade Court. The response from the Belgrade Court was this:

"Mihailovich will be given a fair trial, but we have enough legal evidence to convict him, and he will be shot."

(rumbling and sarcastic laughter in the audience...)

At that point, we almost gave up. We couldn't appear. I'm going to digress a little. I was called up in 1946, I was living in New York - I was called up by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich. He called me to say: 'I appreciate the work that the Americans are doing, but I want to tell you something about the Serbian people. We love General Mihailovich. But the important thing is to clear his name. Even if they do kill Mihailovich, another Drama will rise from the hills to lead the Serbian people. The most important thing is to clear his name. If you do that, we'll be happy.'

Major Felman continues..

After the Belgrade Court turned us down, we formed the Commission of Inquiry in New York. Testimony was presented at the Commission of Inquiry in May of 1946. It was presided over by some of the most prominent jurists in the United States. We accepted testimony from all of the American Intelligence officers and airmen. The findings were sent to the Belgrade Court in the interest of international justice. The Belgrade Court ignored it, and on July 17, 1946 they executed Mihailovich, and they threw his body in an unmarked grave.

Now once that happened, put yourselves in our position. What do we do now? The man was executed - murdered is a better word -so what we do now. Thank God, along came the Honorable Edward J. Derwinski. Without him...

(applause...) Twenty years after Mihailovich was executed by a Communist firing squad, Edward Derwinski came up - he was investigating this for years - he came up with the fact that in 1948, two years after Mihailovich was shot - Secretary Derwinski came up with the information that President Truman, on the recommendation of General Eisenhower, who knew better than anybody else, on his recommendation, that President Truman awarded posthumously the Legion of Merit in the degree of Chief Commander, to General Mihailovich for his material contribution to the Allied victory. Mind you, this is the highest award the United States Government gives to a foreign national. This award was given two years after the Communists shot him as a war collaborator.

For the first time in the history of this country, because of the..."behind the scenes" activities in Washington, this award was kept secret. The first time in history, one of the highest awards was kept secret. The State Department finally admitted -'well, we did not want to release this because we did not want to offend the Communist government of Yugoslavia.' This is an actual document! So, it's okay to offend the Americans, but don't offend the Communists.

Let me give you one idea of how this thing was kept secret for all those years. Three years ago MaryAnn and I went up to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. I went up there to speak to the head archivist in the library. I introduced myself and said 'I'm one of the members of the Halyard Mission' He said, 'what's that?'

I said, 'this is one of the most glorious moments in Air Force history. 500 Americans and 250 Allied airmen were rescued from behind enemy lines, and you don't have a record of it?' He says, 'no' He said, 'we have records of our failures in Iran. We have records of our failures to rescue Americans in Vietnam. But we don't have any records of the Allied airmen being rescued.'

Now, doesn't just burn your bippi?

I left my files with him. And thank goodness, shortly after that, I received a letter from the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy, Lieutenant General Charles R. Hamm that 'in the future, the Halyard Mission and the efforts of General Mihailovich would be on permanent display at the Academy, and it was sure to be of great interest to the cadets.'

The State Department is still on record for saying 'we do not care about the truth. Our only concern is appeasing Yugoslavia.' It seems that our State Department has a desk in every country of the world, except the United States of America.

Not too long ago, the Washington Post called to ask me, 'how come after fifty years, the United States government has never expressed its gratitude for the lives of 500 Americans saved during the war?' Excellent question. I can't answer it.

I told them it was not our fault. I told him, we've been going to Washington for fifty years. Unfortunately, we don't have any money to buy a lobbyist. Without a lobbyist in Washington, you have absolutely no political clout. All we have working in our favor is truth, justice, national honor, and gratitude to a former ally. These values mean absolutely nothing in Washington when they come up against powerful foreign lobbies. When they come against powerful public relations firms, and million dollar contributions given to our elected officials. Believe me, it disturbs me greatly to stand up here in uniform...

(..Felman pauses .)

It disturbs me greatly to make these accusations about some of the people I met up in Washington. I don't like to do it, but I would be unpatriotic and un-American if I didn't bring it out.

This is the real kicker. This is what really got me off the hook. In all those years of trying, I was never more incensed than when I was told by the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dante B. Fascell, on February 27th, 1990 - I wrote to him pleading, 'please, the American airmen, all we want to do is say Thank You, express our gratitude for saving our lives. We are not making a political statement. Do not make a political football out of this. All we want to do is say 'Thank you' and express our gratitude.'

He says to me, 'thank you very much. We appreciate what you're trying to do, but the petition for Mihailovich is being denied because,' and I quote, 'because of the opposition of the Yugoslav government and the opposition of certain ethnic groups in Yugoslavia.'

I broke four windows when I got this letter. In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would live to see the day when a committee of the United States Congress would allow an ethnic group to interfere in our internal affairs. Besides that, and this is the important thing, it sets a frightening precedent that the legitimate requests of American citizens are denied by the United States government on the basis that they might upset a foreign government.

After trying all these years, I will never accept the fact that, during World War II we risked our lives and watched our buddies get their arms, legs, and heads blown off so that ethnic groups could tell what we could or could not do in our own country.

(applause...)

I don't know if I'll ever get another opportunity to release my sense of outrage.

Two days ago, on May 29th, I celebrated my 73rd birthday...

(applause...Felman gets teary eyed...)

You know as well as I do, I don't have another fifty years to fight for a cause as American as the American flag, the Star Spangled Banner, and the Bill of Rights. Gratitude. American gratitude. That's all we want. For five hundred American lives.

For a birthday present, I was going to ask our featured speaker, the Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to conduct a full scale investigation of why ethnic groups in Yugoslavia are more important that 8 million American veterans.

(applause...)

I am an American with a fierce love of my country. I have red, white, and blue blood flowing in my veins. But I am absolutely put to shame by a mere handful of my own countrymen who would dare to oppose an expression of gratitude for the saving of 500 American lives while we were fighting in defense of our country.

There is not a single American, worthy of the name of this country, who would dare object to that, and if there is, he better not show his face to me. All I can say is that thank God that the Department of Defense and the City of Chicago do not give a damn about what the ethnic groups in Yugoslavia think about the Halyard Mission.

The American airmen will always be grateful to them. To the committee chairman, Colonel Kenneth Plummer, and to one of our Serbian Chetnik rescuers, Rade Rebich and his wonderful family who have worked hard day in and day out to put this ceremony together and to give us this recognition.

..applause...

And to hell with what the ethnic groups in Yugoslavia think about it.

..applause...

May God bless us all and the millions of Americans who support us. May God bless the United States of America.

(standing ovation.)


You can honor Major Felman's memory by doing something for the hundreds of thousands of Serb children who are cold, hungry and often sick because of American bombs. The Serbian Orthodox Christmas is celebrated January 6. To relieve a bleak Christmas for a small child, send a shoebox, labelled for the age and gender of a child it is meant for, with a small toy, a pair of mittens, a pair of socks, some dried fruit, nuts, candies which ship well, perhaps crayons and a coloring book, small stuffed animal or doll. Wrap the shoebox with Christmas paper, mark it and mail to the Serbian Relief Committee in Pennsylvania which is trying to send a 40 ft container to Belgrade. The presents, which are very personal, could perhaps let many thousands of young Serb children know that ALL Americans were not in favor of bombing them. Send them to:

The Serbian Church Relief Committee
2110 Haymaker Road(In Serbian a box for a boy 5-8 would be: DECACI, GODISTA 5-8; for a girl the box would be labelled: DEVOJCICE, GODISTA 5-8).
Monroeville, PA 15146-4322
Attn: Fr. Malich To help the relief effort financially, send your check to: The Serbian Church Relief Committee
1608 Main Street
Aliquippa, PA 15001 USA
Attn : Miss Nell Kozlina

Laurie Holtz (lmholtz@pacaccess.com) told us: "Our sources from this committee say that supplies in Belgrade as simple as soap are desperately needed, as well as food. A man I listened to at church this morning had just returned from Belgrade and said everywhere people are digging in trashcans trying to find something to eat." Send a check and/or a shoebox present for a child in Serbia in memory of Major Felman and/or in memory of another Child, long ago, who was born in a stable. And, send this by e-mail to everyone you know.

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