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INSIDE: A SALUTE TO THE
GRADUATING CLASS OF 2021
MEMORIAL DAY
OREGON
Tobiason champions
Central Oregon vets
Legislature
puts focus
on doomed
measures
State lawmakers have
less than a month until they
are required to adjourn
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
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Dick Tobiason, an 86-year-old retired Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, wipes down
one of the granite memorials May 13 while visiting the Bend Heroes Memorial at Brooks Park.
Dick Tobiason,
of Bend, is pic-
tured in 1967
while serving
in the Army
during the Viet-
nam War. He
still has shrap-
nel stuck in
his lungs and
forehead from
a hand grenade
blast during
that first tour
in Vietnam. He
earned a Pur-
ple Heart after
surviving the
attack.
BY KYLE SPURR • The Bulletin
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n his free time, Dick Tobiason cleans the Bend Heroes Memorial in
Brooks Park. The 86-year-old retired Army lieutenant colonel and
Vietnam War veteran wipes pollen and dirt from the granite plaque
engraved with the names of Bend residents who died while serving their
country. The work is never a burden. Tobiason maintains the memorial to
honor the veterans listed on the plaque. Last month, he prepared the site for a
Memorial Day ceremony he is hosting Monday morning.
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The Oregon Legislature was hit with a
double dip of stress Friday as it dealt with
the official beginning of the end of the
2021 session.
Lawmakers have 30 days as of Fri-
day until they are required to adjourn.
The Oregon Constitution authorizes
the Legislature to meet for 160 days in
odd-numbered years.
What began Jan. 19 must end by June
27. The allotted days include weekends
and holidays, making the actual amount
of time left for action
even shorter.
The second big mark
on the calendar on Fri-
day was the fourth and
final “witching hour”
that acts as an auto-
matic guillotine to lop-
off legislation that has
“I’m not sure slowed or stalled in
what will get committees.
To keep on the 160-
left behind.” day pace, the Legisla-
ture sets four deadlines
— Tina Kotek,
about a month apart
D-Portland,
when bills must show
House speaker progress. At the stroke
of midnight on the
deadline, the stragglers are dead for the
year.
The deadline Friday not only sends
hundreds of dormant bills to oblivion,
but also mandates the shutdown of most
of the 34 House and Senate committees
that act as factories for new bills.
As of Saturday, no more hearings. No
more amendments. No more votes.
How severe the final culling of bills
will be this time won’t be known until
early next week.
“I’m not sure what will get left behind,”
said House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Port-
land.
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How Tulsa massacre, others spent most of a century unremembered
BY DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press
When the smoke cleared in
June 1921, the toll from the
massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
was catastrophic — scores of
lives lost, homes and busi-
nesses burned to the ground, a
thriving Black community gut-
ted by a white mob.
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The nightmare cried out
for attention, as something to
be investigated and memo-
rialized, with speeches and
statues and anniversary com-
memorations.
But the horror and violence
visited upon Tulsa’s Black com-
munity didn’t become part of
the American story. Instead,
it was pushed down, unre-
membered and untaught un-
til efforts decades later started
bringing it into the light. And
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even this year, with the 100th
anniversary of the massacre
being recognized, it’s still an
unfamiliar history to many —
something historians say has
broader repercussions.
“The consequences of that
is a sort of a lie that we tell
ourselves collectively about
who we are as a society,
who we have been histori-
cally, that’s set some of these
things up as aberrations, as
exceptions of what we un-
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derstand society to be rather
than endemic or intrinsic
parts of American history,”
said Joshua Guild, an associ-
ate professor of history and
African American studies at
Princeton University.
Indeed, U.S. history is filled
with dark events — often in-
volving racism and racial vi-
olence — that haven’t been
made part of the national
fabric.
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Darius Kirk looks at a mural depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre in the
historic Greenwood neighborhood Thursday ahead of centennial com-
memorations of the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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