Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July
3 0
, 1934 - THREE
Jim Farley sees different Europe during 50th anniversary
It was the same place, the
same people, but the the
scene was drastically dif
ferent. W hen Jim Farley o f
Heppner was in England
and Europe during W orld
W ar II, the landscape had
been d e v a s ta te d . F ifty
years later, during the an
niversary celebration o f D-
Day, Farley encountered a
totally different Europe.“ It
was hard to recogn ize,”
said Farley, "because when
I was there it was war torn.
It’s was all w ar then. Now
it’s just beautiful."
Farley said that instead
o f being greeted with guns,
this tim e his reception was
warm. “ W e were really ac
cepted," he said. "W e were
treated first class. Th e food
was good and we had all
you could eat.You got all
the wine you wanted, but
you couldn't get a drink o f
w ater or a cup o f coffee."
H ighlights o f his tour,
which was from May 31 to
June 15, included a visit to
the
h e a d q u a rte rs
of
General George “ Old Blood
and G uts” Patton in L u x
em bourg, where, he says,
they were treated "ro y a l
ly ” . " T o the delight o f
everyb od y,” said Farley,
Walter Cronkite, who was a
prominent news correspon
d en t d u rin g W W II, in
troduced President Clinton
to the crowd at the D-Day
c e le b ra tio n . A m an in
F arley’s tour group from
Pendleton, Jiggs Fisk, was
a friend o f Lt. Gen Talburt
w ho introduced him to
Clinton. Fisk sat in the
sam e booth as Clinton,
shook his hand and was
even on television.
Besides, Clinton and Mrs.
C lin to n , d ig n ita r ie s at
v a rio u s
c e re m o n ie s
th ro u g h o u t the D -D ay
celebration included the
Queen o f England. Prince
Charles, Princesses Anne
and Margaret, the Duke o f
Y o rk .
E n g lis h
P rim e
Minister John Major. Polish
P residen t Lech W alesa,
French President Francois
Mitterand. the king o f Nor
way, the queen and prime
m inister o f The Nether
lands, the king, queen and
prime m inister o f Belgium,
the p rim e m in isters o f
France. Australia. Canada,
L u x e m b o u rg , and N ew
Zealand and presidents o f
the C ze c h and S lo v a k
republics.
F a rley and the oth er
v e te ra n s a tte n d in g the
cerem ony received a letter
o f w elcom e from French
P resid en t Fran cois Mit-
terand. "F ran ce is happy
and proud to w elcom e the
veterans o f the W estern
Allied troops, who 50 years
ago, cam e to m ingle their
blood w ith that o f her
son s." w rites Mitterand.
"W a r was raging through
out Europe: to the east
where the Russian offen
sive was about to start up
a g a in
a lo n g a
1,500
k ilo m e te r fron t: to the
south where the fall o f
Rom e on 4th June set the
armies o f Italy free for other
tasks. However, as soon as
O peration O verlord (the
code name for the D-Day of
fensive) was launched, all
eyes turned to five Norman
dy beaches, where the fate
o f the w ar would be sealed,
w here several thousand
mean succeeded in lan
ding, soon to be followed by
tens o f thousands o f others;
but what anguish during
the first hours, the vfjrst
days, what prodigious acts
o f bravery and tenacity
were accom plished by men
to succeed in an undertak
ing that no-one had ever at
tem pted before 6th June
1944.”
" T o those who, 50 years
later, have com e to pay
their espects at the graves
o f their fallen com rades, or
to see again together the
theatre o f so much glory
and so much suffering, I ex
p ress the g r a titu d e o f
France. W elcom e!” signed,
F ra n co is M ittera n d , Le
President de la Republique.
Millions o f people were on
hand for the anniversary
celebration, said Farley, in
cluding m any sons, daugh
ters and grandchildren o f
W W II veterans. One inci
d en t w as p a r tic u la r ly
touching, he said, when a
w om an in his group took a
picture o f the grave o f her
father who had been buried
at th e O m ah a B each
cem etery. She had never
seen her father and had
never before visited his
grave. “ It was pretty em o
tional,” said Farley.
F arley’s tour o f W W II
battle sites was extensive
and took him to m any
places he had visited dur
ing the war. His itinerary
included two days in L on
don. highlighted by tours of
Parliam ent. Big Ben, Pic
cadilly and Oxford circuses,
the T o w e r o f L o n d o n ,
St.Paul’s Cathedral: Stone
henge, Salisbury and the
seaside resort o f Bourne
mouth; a ferry ride across
the English Channel to
F ra n ce; a d riv e a lo n g
Omaha Beach to Vierville-
sur-Mer, Pointe du Hoc.
Ste. Mere Eglise and C her
bourg and Utah Beach;
Paris, including the Arc de
Triom phe, where he at
ten ded a w re a th -la y in g
cerem ony at the T om b o f
the Unknown Soldier, the
Eiffel Tow er, Sacre Coeur.
N o tre D am e an d the
Louvre. Then it was onto
Battle o f the Bulge sites, in
c lu d in g
L u x e m b o u rg ,
where he visited the burial
site o f General Patton, St.
Vith, Losheim Gap, Mal-
m edy, T ro is Ponts and
Parker’s Crossroads, Bas-
togne, Liege, Boppard. C ol
ogne; a trip up the Rhine
River, visiting the Remagen
Bridge Museum (he had
crossed a pontoon bridge
shortly after the destruc
tion o f the Rem agen Bridge
during the war); and even
tually to Frankfurt before
heading home.
Farley, a 24-year-old first
lieutenant in the 955th field
artillery, was in Exeter,
• England, on D-Day, before
being shipped out in an
ocean landing ship tank.
He was on the ship five
days and eventually landed
on Om aha Beach w here he
went into com bat w ith the
field artillery. At one point
during the war, he was in
the Bastogne area in the
M em orial at B astogne
middle of winter, in two feet
o f snow in 10-degree-below-
zero weather with only K-
rations to eat. Also during
the war fie was at a site just
outside Buchenwald, the
infamous death camp. He
was in Europe "a short two
y ea rs. T h e G ood L o rd
helped me make it through
it,” said Farley. "M an y had
a rougher tim e than I. But
some didn ’t have it rough
at all.”
Mary Goheen attends convention
Mary Goheen o f Heppner
has returned from C incin
nati where she represented
Soroptim ist International
C lu b o f H ep p n er as a
delegate to the Soroptim ist
In te rn a tio n a l
of
the
Am ericas Biennial Conven
tion, July 1-5.
"O u ts ta n d in g and in
spirational speakers, vis
itors and panelists included
Bella A b zu g who spoke on
“ W om en ’s Role in P eace” ;
M arie
Jeanne
Bosia-
Beberat, Lugano, S w itzer
land; and Maureen Reagan
who m oderated a panel of
five experts in areas of
health, education, environ
ment, econom ic and social
developm ent and human
rights,” said Goheen.
There were over 1000 at
tendees from U.S.. Canada.
M exico. South Am erica.
The Phillipines and Japan.
An optional event that
Goheen said was m ost en
joyable was a dinner cruise
on an Ohio R iver boat
follow ed by an outdoor
sym phony "p o p s " concert
which included m em bers
o f the Cincinnati Ballet
Society and Th e Studio
Cloggers.
G oh een re p o rts th at
some o f the rewards o f the
trip were renew ing friend
ships with friends from
J u n ea u ,
A la s k a ,
In
glew ood, California, and
Tokyo, Japan.
A city tour included The
M useum C en ter at the
form er Union Station and
its O m nim ax Theater cur
rently show ing the film
" A fr ic a T h e S e re n g e ti”
with some scenes she saw
in Kenya last year. C incin
nati is the location o f head
quarters o f m ay companies
such as the Proctor & Gam
ble w orld headquarters,
also ethnic areas with huge
m ansions built by the ear
ly settlers who accumulate
great wealth.
Goheen says tem pera
tures o f 94 and 95 degrees
here do not seem too bad
since in Cincinnati the
temperature was the same
but also with high hum id
ity.
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