. Fe The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Thursday, September 19, 2002 7 John Lemmond on front lines of war on terror ® 1 Dallas native back from tour in Afghanistan By BONNIE ADAMS Special to The Dallas Post Despite the dirt, cold and dan- ger, Navy Senior Chief John Lemmond considers his two months in Afghanistan to be the best experience of his 21 years in the service. “Everything we did every day made a difference,” said Lem- mond, a heavy-equipment oper- ator. Lemmond, like his father, en- listed in the military right out of high school after graduating from West Side Area Vocational- Technical School in Pringle. State Sen. Charles Lemmond, 73, was 17 when he joined the Army in 1946 after graduating from the former Forty Fort High School. He served in the Army of Occupation after World War II. Lemmond and other sailors from a Mississippi-based Naval Construction Battalion built whatever was needed in Afghanistan. Their mission was unglamorous but essential; they constructed everything from fighting positions to guard tow- ers to detainee facilities. “Anything asked of these guys, there was nothing impossible,” he said recently from his office in Gulfport, Miss. Lemmond remembers sitting along the runway at Camp Rhi- no in Afghanistan in early De- cember when he heard gunfire. It was about 3 a.m. when he and other sailors. headed to their fighting positions as the Marines responded to the enemy with mortar fire. : Lemmond, 39, ranked his Afghanistan service just above a previous tour of duty in scenic Greece. Better known as the Seabees, the Navy construction special- ists maintained a dirt runway at Camp Rhino, a base in southern Afghanistan. They also built fa- cilities for captured Taliban and al-Qaida fighters and helped clear the area around the Khan- dahar Airport. Sen. Charles Lemmond’s greatest concern when his son was in Afghanistan was the mentality of the terrorists — their lack of concern for them- selves and others. “I think it was a very difficult situation,” he said. John Lemmond expressed his hope that the United States is on the right track in its fight against terrorism. “As night falls to day, there will be more,” he said. y Though John Lemmond is not ready to retire from the Navy, he knows where he'll go when he does. “Home is where I'll be,” he said regarding the Back Moun- tain. He sees no end to the war on terrorism. “Tomorrow we'll wake up and we'll still be doing this,” he said. Professor to speak on Mideast peace The issue of Middle East peace remains at the forefront of inter- national news and impacts people around the globe as well as here in the United States. Dr. Sami Adwan, professor of education at Bethlehem University (Palestine) and co-director of the Peace Re- search Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), will travel to College Misericordia as part of a community discussion, “The Possibility of Peace: A Discussion of the Palestinian and Israeli Conflict” on Sun- day, Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The lecture and discussion, to be held in the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library, will draw on Adwan’s extensive experience as a citizen, ed- ucator, and leader in this strife-torn region. Adwan has edited two books in conjunction with Israeli Dan Bar-On, a psychologist and specialist in intergenerational trauma. The books, entitled Victim- hood and Beyond: The Bethlehem Encounter, and The Role of Non- Governmental Organizations in Peace-Building Between Palestini- ans and Israelis, are important works on the subject of peace. 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