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Five-year-old Ryan Zapalac of Bryan peers into the cockpit of the B-25
World War II Bomber, 'Devil Dog,' on display at Coulter Field Open
House Air Show Saturday. The Open House celebrated the anniversary
of 100 years of flying. The B-25 Bomber, built in 1944, is owned by the
Commemorative Air Force, and a four-man flight crew travels with the
bomber to different air shows across the nation.
Leadership loss: Arkansas town’i
mayor, police chief called to Iraq
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By Caryn Rousseau
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRADFORD, Ark. — The
mayor, police chief and school
librarian are all leaving for mili
tary duty Monday that is expect
ed to take them to Iraq, and the
residents left behind in this tiny
town of 800 are scrambling to
fill their roles.
At the local cafe and in
school hallways, the callup and
what to do about the loss of city
leaders is the talk of the town. At
city hall, meanwhile, officials
have been rushing to prepare
paperwork necessary to transfer
the mayor’s power to a 78-year-
old retired school teacher.
The soon-to-be acting
police chief says Bradford is
just one example of how the
war in Iraq has affected small
town America.
“One way or another we’re
going to handle it,” said Michael
Ray, who will become the new
police chief, along with his job
as a school resources officer.
“It’s going to be OK. I’m going
to run it the same way as if the
chief was here.”
In addition to Mayor Paul
Bunn, Chief Josh Chambliss and
librarian Nolan Brown, five
other citizens of this farm town
have received orders to report to
Fort Hood, Texas. There, they
will prepare for a tour of duty in
Iraq that is expected to put them
in Iraq by Christmas.
Grebe Edens, the town’s
recorder-treasurer, will take over
for the 35-year-old mayor.
Previously, she spent 24 years as
Bradford’s fourth-grade teacher.
Edens said she plans to carry
on with Bunn’s ideas. “As the
mayor says, we’re a family
here,” she said.
At the elementary school.
Brown was organizing the
library ahead of his deployment.
He served in Vietnam and has
been in the National Guard for
31 years. Now 57, he was hop
ing to leave the guard at age 60.
“I’ve got stuff scattered from
here to there getting ready,” he
said. “I want to leave it as if I’m
not coming back.”
Brown says he’s edgy about
his departure, as are his wife and
the three children they care for.
But he’s adamant that he has to
give back to a country that gave
him an education.
“The U.S. has been very
good to me,” he said, adding he
believes citizens need “to be
willing to do whatever it take to
make sure kids in the future
have the same opportunities that
we have.”
Unlike Brown, who works
a headquarters group, the
chief and the mayor are i
soldiers responsible for more
dangerous security duty,
“I’ll make a deal with the pres
ident,” said Bunn, who has fouglil
in Panama and in the Gulf War,
“I’ll go over there, but I’m
willing to die. Maybe it’s because
I’ve got kids now.”
Chambliss, 28, has been
town’s police chief since 2(
He’s not worried at
Bradford, which is about
miles northeast of Little Rod
He said he expects the town
other four officers to continue to
man the school crossings and
attend all the ball games.
“I’m curious to see what the
next 18 months hold, not forme
but for Bradford,” Chambliss
said. “I want to come back
town and see the progress.”
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