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Veteran Vanguard: Marty Zickert

Editor’s note: Veteran Voice has the privilege of meeting, interview-ing and writing stories that in-volve many area veteran leaders. Their names repeatedly appear in our stories, always followed by “said.” We’re launching an occasional series, Veteran Van-guard, to introduce readers to the wonderful men and woman that contribute so much to veterans, communities, and our stories. This week we’re featuring Marty Zick-ert. Our affectionate nickname for him is “Z.”

Col. Marty Zickert, Unit-ed States Air Force, retired, is among the rare breed: a mus-tang. An officer who’d started his military career as enlisted. The 72-year-old had been out of the military for a couple decades run-ning a financial planning busi-ness when he got suckered into recruiting a community to help veterans more.He lives in Vero Beach. “When I was in Pensacola, I had

been the president of (the Military Officers Association of America chapter),” he said “When I came here, I decided I’d drop out of that thing and just be a whiner.” That was in 2001. His wife,

Penny, could only take so much of his groaning about veterans getting a raw deal. “She stood that for quite a while,

and she finally said, ‘Look, if you going to do that, why don’t you get involved?’” Zickert said. His idea of getting involved was

going to a veterans luncheon.

There he ran into Eric “Rip” Weiler, then president of the Veterans Council of Indian River County. Weiler had an eye for tal-ent, and a smooth tongue. Zickert blindly walked into the proverbial spider’s web. “He asked me if I would be a

(parliamentarian for the council),” Zickert said. “I said, ‘Sure, for six months I’ll do that. “I found out

later that he told his wife, ‘I just found the next president of the veterans council.’” That was about four years ago. “The next year, (Weiler) said,

‘I’d like you to get involved with Veterans Day and Memorial Day (events planning) and then I was a vice president,” Zickert said. “The next year, they said, ‘Con-gratulations, you just got a new

job.’” Zickert’s inspiring words to

launch his presidency of the vet-erans council were, “Huh, what?” In addition to planning events at

Vero Beach’s Veterans Memori-al Island Sanctuary, the council took the lead in the local Veter-ans Transportation Network. The

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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerMarty Zickert, right, president of the Veterans Council of Indian River County, speaks to fellow veteran John Darling at the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum, Fort Pierce. Zickert never intended to become a local veterans leader, but fate had other ideas.

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FDVA readies to celebrate platinum and silver anniversaries

The Florida Department of Veter-ans Affairs has a big year coming up. “We’re going to be celebrating

our 25th anniversary in 2014,” Steve Murray, communications director, said. “We’re putting on our thinking caps to figure out how to reach veterans we haven’t reached.” But that’s not all. The depart-

ment is also celebrating its plati-num anniversary. The FDVA started back in 1944,

but had a different name until 1989. Back in the ‘40s, thou-sands were returning from World War II and the state legislature wanted to do everything it could to ensure they got the federal benefits their service earned. The state set up the department and filled it with people familiar with the then-Veterans Administra-tion’s offerings and rules. Over the years the mission grew, and

by 1988, voters enshrined the department into the state’s con-stitution. The FDVA still helps veterans

filing claims and appeals with the VA. By 1989 those World War II

veterans were getting older and many needed nursing care. In 1990 the department expanded its operations to what is now its most visible function, the State Veterans’ Homes Program. The department operates six nursing homes with 120 beds each, and an assisted living facility with 150. Those facilities are in Pem-broke Pines, Daytona Beach, St. Augustine, Port Charlotte, Land O’ Lakes, Lake City, and Panama City. The FDVA has a lesser-known

function: representing veterans to the Florida Cabinet and Legisla-ture. In 2013 Jim Brodie stepped down as director of legislative and cabinet affairs. Bobby Carbonell filled the position. Carbonell said Brodie made remarkable headway in the Florida Legislature during its last 60-day session. Among

other improvements for veterans was legislation that waives state licensing fees for those transi-tioning from military to civilian medical work. Carbonell said that veterans

have been spared more than $10,000 in medical-profession li-censing fees since the start of the state’s budget year: July 1. “They expect that to double

in the next couple months,” he said, adding, “There are a lot of military medical professions that directly translate on the civilian side.”Another big score for veterans

in the last legislative session was passage of a bill that prohibits protests within 500 feet of funer-als within an hour before, during, and after a funeral. Many states have enacted the laws largely to curtail the Westboro Baptist Church’s infamous protests at military funerals. A similar bill passed in 2012

that protected only military fu-nerals, but its legality was ques-tioned. The legislature revised it to include any funeral, which

took away the legal questions. But the biggest score in 2013

was a green light for a feasibili-ty study to start planning a new state veterans’ home. The Clyde E. Lassen State Vet-

erans’ Nursing Home, St. Au-gustine, opened in 2010. That’s the latest addition to the state’s veterans’ homes network. The closest to the Space and Treasure coasts are the Emory L. Bennett State Veterans’ Nursing Home, Daytona Beach, and the Alexan-der “Sandy” Nininger State Vet-erans’ Nursing Home, Pembroke Pines. John Haddox, Martin County Commissioner, is making efforts to convince the state to build the next in Indiantown. Carbonell said the department’s

big legislative push for 2014 is aimed at helping younger veter-ans going to school on the Post 9/11 GI Bill. “The No. 1 priority is to get

passed in-state tuitions and fees for out-of-state veterans,” Car-

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Man and Martin County grow up together

PALM CITY — Any reporter gets a lot of press releases. I read all of them, because you never know when an interesting story will come along. Sometimes, you get the bare bones of a story, and as you dig deeper, you find yourself more and more caught up in it. You can’t wait to tell the story to reader. My editor, Tammy Raits, for-

warded a press release to me from the Kiwanis Club in Stuart, about a member who had been in the organization for 63

years. That piqued my interest. I called the man, William Ough-

terson. It was in the middle of the University of Florida/Flori-da State football game and Mr. Oughterson, in the nicest possi-ble way, made it clear that he was not talking with me then.A day or so later, he called me

back. He said he didn’t have a lot of time to talk because of various commitments, but he would send me some stories that had been written about him, as well as a summary of his life. If I were still interested, I could call him.It turns out that Mr. Ough-

terson’s life is the life of Martin County. In a story told to John O’Neil in 2012 and published in the Sandhill Cove newsletter, Ougtherson recalled that his father, T.T Oughterson, settled in Stuart in 1925, in the year Martin County was formed. He opened a law office and was one of the county’s first practitioners. The family went back to Nashville for Bill Oughterson’s birth in 1926, but the young family returned to Stuart soon after. Oughterson graduated from

Stuart High School at 16 in 1943. It was World War II and older

students had been released early to fight. He and another boy were the only two male graduates to receive their diplomas in person. As I read this material, I was

fascinated. I called Mr. Ough-terson and he talked to me for a bit. He had clearly mastered the art of ‘leave ‘em wanting more.’ The more I found out, the more I wanted to know. Oughterson attended the Cita-

del for a year and then left to join a Navy program at the University of Miami and then Midshipman’s School. He was commissioned as an ensign. “I was lying in a hospital from

an emergency appendectomy when they dropped the bomb,” he said. “I went to Japan afterward.” Oughterson was discharged

from active service, but remained in the Navy Reserve for 27 ½ years. He retired as a lieutenant commander.Oughterson was a gifted athlete.

He had played tennis in high school and when he enrolled at the University of Florida, he

Shelley Koppel Staff wrtier

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerThe walls around Bill Oughterson tell some of the stories of his life with keepsakes of his role in Kiwanis Club, the U.S. Navy, as an attorney in Stuart and as a collegiate tennis player with the University of Florida.

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joined the tennis team. He was captain of the 1949 team. He also excelled in track, compet-ing as a hurdler and high jumper.Oughterson received his undergraduate and

law degrees in 1950. He returned to Stuart to practice law, joining his father in July 1950. He continued practicing until 2001, a career of more than half a century. At one time, the firm had two Oughtersons, a Prewitt and a Sundheim as partners; they were known as OOPS. Service to the community has been a big

part of Bill Oughterson’s life, and his dedica-tion to Kiwanis is part of that. His interest in the Kiwanis was also a legacy from his father, a charter member of the group. On the day that he was sworn in as an attorney in 1950, his father raised his name in membership.“As a child, I went to many meetings,” he

said. “It was different from now. The meetings took place in homes and the wives prepared the dinner.” He served as the club’s secretary for 12

years, and was vice president, president and lieutenant governor. He held local and state-wide offices, including governor of the Florida District of Kiwanis International. He formed the Indiantown and Jensen Beach Kiwanis Clubs and was involved in the formation of the South Fort Pierce club. He is especially proud of the fact that over his 63 years of membership, he has a perfect attendance record. Oughterson also served on the board of the

Martin County Red Cross; as a director of

Bill Oughterson and his father Ted at a tennis court as featured in ‘A Different Vision – The History of The Hobe Sound Company and The Jupiter Island Club.’

Mitch Kloorfainchief photographer

OUGHTERSON from page 4

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program is a collaborative effort of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Disabled American Veterans and some counties. Counties supply vehicles, usually vans, to the VA, which maintains them. Volunteers drive them to take veterans from donor coun-ties to VA medical appointments. In Indian River, the county’s

veterans council is responsible for raising money to buy new ve-hicles. But, it had a limitation — only veterans organizations were a part of it. “The buses were wearing out,”

Zickert said. “What I decided we needed to do was expand mem-bership to people who cared about veterans.” Under Zickert’s leadership,

the council opened its doors to associate members: clubs and businesses that want to help veterans. There’re now 26 of them ranging from the local Knights of Columbus to the Indian River Sheriff’s Office. Still, the council had only about

$70,000 to get two new vehicles. The VA was getting close to retir-ing the two vehicles from Indian River. Zickert said the prices on buses to take veterans to the West Palm Beach VA hospital were steep. “They were $120,000 each,” he

said.

But, one of the new associate members found two military surplus vehicles that had carted reporters around Guantanamo Bay. “The first one was $65,000,”

Zikert said. “The other was $62,500.”

Both had fewer than 10,000 miles. The council snapped up the $65,000 van. Then there was collective head-scratching over how to get the other before some-one else did.Sometimes annoyance focuses

the mind.

“Mitt Romney came to town,” Zickert said. “He raise $750,000 in three hours. A lot of Republi-cans here. He walked out of here doing very well.”

Staff photo by Tammy RaitsTwo ‘Walls of Honor’ in the Victory Center display pictures of local veterans.

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Martin Memorial Hospital and vice president of its Foundation; and as chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Membership Drive. He was president of the Mar-tin County Bar Association and was elected county prosecuting attorney for 12 years, from 1960-1972.Family has always been import-

ant to Bill Oughterson and he and wife, Leila, have been mar-ried for 64 years. They have two children, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.If a recitation of the facts of Bill

Oughterson’s life were all we had, it would a fascinating look at his life and the life of our community. There is more to the story. Bill Oughterson has a passion

for tennis. After his college stint on the tennis team, he loved the game so much that he became a professional tennis umpire. He has some great stories to tell about Chris Evert, Katharine Hepburn and others. I, too, have learned something about ‘leaving ‘em wanting more,’ so those sto-ries will wait until next week.

Shelley Koppel is a staff writer for Veteran Voice.

OUGHTERSON from page 5Is the South being defeated again? “Southern Discomfort: U.S.

Army seeks removal of Lee, ‘Stonewall’ Jackson honors,” trumpeted aheadline this week in The

Washington Times, referring to storied Confederate gener-als Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The sto-ry quickly spread, igniting a firestorm of protest around the Internet. Allegedly, the U.S. Army War

College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., was conducting a systematic wipeout of Confederate images in its historic buildings. “(The) proposed move (at

Carlisle Barracks) is not solely a slap in the face of the south but America’s history,” one commen-tator wrote on the Times’ web-site, summing up the feelings of more than 5,000 responders. “It’s time for Americans to stand

up to those bent on rewriting history so that it panders to so-called contemporary sensibilities. Two of the greatest generals are to be snubbed to meet today’s perverse benchmark of political correctness. Pathetic.” Closer to home, a school in

Jacksonville, has decided to change its name, Nathan B[ed-ford] Forrest High School, which originally honored the famous Civil War Confederate general, due to concerns over racism. But are these stories really

true? No, and yes, respectively. Each, however, has sparked a great deal of controversy. The Jacksonville story is ac-

curate. The Duval County school board voted 7-0 Monday [Dec. 16] to change the name after the current school year ends. Officials will choose between the names Westside and Firestone in January, according to a news report on cnn.com. Forrest, himself a controver-

sial figure both in his day and

today, was allegedly a former slave trader, and his troops were allegedly involved in the massa-cre of black Union soldiers at a Tennessee fort. He later served as the first “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, but reportedly left the organization after objecting to its mission of violence. A parent of one of the school’s

students, Ty Richmond, began a

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No political commentary when Zickert said that just bugged him to no end. He wrote a letter of the Vero Beach Press Journal asking the community why a presidential candidate could raise that much money in a place where veterans were unable to get a badly needed bus. A local businessman stepped

up with $50,000, and a $13,000 no-interest loan, so the veterans council could get the second bus. The two carry about 230 veterans and caregivers a month. Oh, and local artists volunteered

to paint them, too. “The new buses can carry six

power wheelchairs and 24 peo-ple,” Zickert said. “Those were 30-passenger busses. We modi-fied them to take wheelchairs. We get a lot of vets in wheelchairs.” The council also got an unex-

pected opportunity for commu-nity outreach and fundraising thrown in its lap. An offer that became the Victory Center Mil-itary Store at the Indian River Mall, 6200 20th St., Vero Beach. The mall noticed that a lot of

the guys sitting on hard benches awaiting others to finish shopping were wearing military caps. Mall managers thought it’d be great to have a military-themed place where they could sit comfortably and enjoy some camaraderie. “Initially they wanted a coffee

shop, just so you have a place be-sides a hard chair,” Zickert said. “Then they said, ‘We want retail.’ I knew nothing about retail.” But, some on the enlarged vet-

erans council did. And Zickert knew a potential donor to get the store going. Boy did he know a potential donor. She ended up donating $25,000 to get the Vic-tory Center going.“The mall gave us a really good

deal,” Zickert said. “The first year’s rent was paid, as was the inventory.” Proceeds from store sales are go-

ing into a fund to purchase new buses. It’s just about two years old now. The accidental veterans leader

one day realized that he’d become a community leader as well.“Every time you turned around,

there was a picture of me some-where,” he said. Penny and Marty Zickert have

six adult children. “I’ve had four of our kids in the

military over time,” he said. They’ve served in the Coast

Guard, Marines, and Air Force.

No political commentary when Zickert said that just bugged

him to no end. He wrote a letter of the Vero Beach Press Journal asking the community why a presidential candidate could raise that much money

in a place where veterans were unable to get a badly needed

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petition campaign on the website change.org, and garnered more than 160,000 signatures, accord-ing to the CNN report. “I’m very encouraged. Jacksonville is too much of a beautiful city to have that ugly blemish,” Richmond is reported to have said. However, admirers of Forrest

have expressed vocal objections to the change, noting the gen-eral’s reputation as a brilliant military tactician and feeling he was misunderstood, according to the report. Back in Carlisle, Army Maj.

Gen. Tony Cucolo, comman-dant of Carlisle Barracks, issued a statement on the Barracks’ website clarifying the incident in question (www.carlisle.army.mil). It turns out a subordinate team leader wanted to change the view from his office, so he decided on his own to take down a number of framed Civil War prints from a public hallway, Cucolo said in the statement. “There was no directive to ‘re-

move all traces of the CSA,’” the statement reads. “Since this is a public hallway with seminar rooms and offices, the sudden new look drew attention the following week. And since there was no public explanation of my leader’s action, some of my folks

jumped to conclusions, even to the point of sending anonymous

notes to local media.” There is, indeed, a plan for reor-

A painting by Mort Kunstler (2002) depicts Confederate generals Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, left, and Robert E. Lee conferring on a battlefield at Chancellorsville, Va., during the Civil War.

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All prices plus tax, tag & dealer fee. Offers cannot be combined. All Offers with approved credit to qualified buyers. All vehicles subject to prior sale. See dealer for details. Not responsible for typographical errors or omissions. Vehicle art for illustration purposes only. All offers expire 1/2/14

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