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Earle G. Wheeler  1932

Cullum No. 9385-1932 | 12/18/1975 | Died in Frederick, MD
Interment not reported to WPAOG

 

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<p class="Body" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Hyperlink0"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/assembly/id/17116/rec/1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/assembly/id/17116/rec/1</span></a></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">Assembly</span></em><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">, December 1876, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 8&ndash;9, 41&ndash;43</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="Body" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">E</span></strong><strong><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: DE;">ARLE</span></strong><strong><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: DA;">GILMORE </span></strong><strong><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;">WHEELER</span></strong></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">Died December 18, 1975, in Frederick, MD</span></strong></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">Interred in Arlington National Cemetery</span></strong></p>
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<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t the annual Founders Day dinner at Fort Sam Houston in 1975, the lieutenant general commanding the Fifth Army was chatting with the oldest grad </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">present, General William H. Simpson,</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> USMA '09, who led the Ninth Army across Europe in World War II. That same evening, Bus Wheeler was 1600 miles away at his home in Martinsburg, West Virginia, enjoying a well-earned retirement after 46 years of service in the United States Army. None of the three had been in contact with the others for years. The subject was leadership, and the Fifth Army Commander told of an incident when he, Second Lieutenant Allen Burdett, eight months out of West Point, was with the newly organized </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">63rd </span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Division at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi, in early 1944. The 63rd would soon be in the war, and the Chief of Staff, Colonel Earle Wheeler, spoke to a group of company-grade officers on small unit tactics. After he left, the junior officers lingered to talk it over in a typical bull session. Before they returned to their quarters, all agreed that Colonel Wheeler would some day be the Army Chief of Staff. From there, the 63rd went to combat and the impressed lieutenant went with it to start an outstanding military career. If this tribute to Bus Wheeler had to be summarized in one paragraph, that would be it. He was a six-foot-two-inch, well-built man, with the looks of a movie star, which was an accident of birth. He was also sincere, articulate, sensitive to other people, always knowledgeable about his subject and able to inspire confidence in his juniors, his peers, and his seniors because he had confidence in himself, which was no accident at all.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Earle Gilmore Wheeler was born on 13 January 1908 in Washington, D.C., the son of Clifton Freeman and Ida Gilmore Wheeler. He attended Eastern High School, was a member of the cadet corps, and while still a student, enlisted in the D.C. National Guard in which he served until he entered West Point in 1928. He was a platoon sergeant in the National Guard company which was outstanding in the summer camp competition and placed five men on the team which competed in the national inter-</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">service rifle matches.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At West Point, Bus ranked comfortably high in academics without undue effort, was on the color guard and ended up a cadet lieutenant. He was admired by cadets of all classes because he was always on hand for counsel when a man needed some help. Our classmate, J.P. McConnell, was one who took Bus's sound advice and thirty years later when he was the Air Force Chief of Staff, J.P. said that he had remembered it all his life. Even in those early days, Bus was a standout and he seemed to attract others of the same style. Of the three cadets who roomed with him for three of our four years at West Point, Chuck Anderson became an Air Force Major General with an outstanding war record and Jim Woolnough acquired four stars as Commanding General of Continental Army Command (CONARC) before he retired. Frank Howard didn't get the chance because he died in an air </span><span lang="NL" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: NL;">crash in 1934,</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> piloting a plane when the Army Air Corps was directed to fly the air mail on twenty-four hours&rsquo; notice, even though he was out of flying school less than a year.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During Yearling Christmas leave, Bus attended a large New Year's Eve party in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and as he was leaving in the early morning hours, he briefly met pretty Frances Rogers Howell&mdash;known to hundreds and hundreds of friends around the world since those days as Betty. Two months later, Bus and Betty had their first date at a cadet hop at West Point. On graduation day, 10 June 1932, they waited as long as it took to drive from West Point to Old Greenwich and were married there.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bus chose the Infantry on graduation and went to the 29th Infantry at Fort Benning with which he served until he attended the Regular Officers' Course at The Infantry School. After graduating in 1937, he was assigned to the 15th Infantry in Tientsin, China, for two years. Thirty-eight years later, a letter addressed to "the wife of the late General Wheeler&rdquo; would say, "as an ex-dogface who had the privilege of serving under your wonderful husband back in China in 1937 and 1938, I want to offer my sincerest sympathy. We the enlisted men of the 15th, had the highest regard and respect for Lieutenant Wheeler. On inspections and guard mounts we put out that little extra when the lieutenant was in command. Frankly, I thought he was too considerate of the enlisted men to make it to the top. . . . Something rubbed off, or I wouldn't have remembered his friendliness and knack of putting me at my ease in the middle of the night when I was on guard duty."</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bus and Betty returned to West Point where Bus was a math instructor, but as World War II approached, he was selected in June 1941 to be the aide-de-camp to the Commanding General of the 36th Division. After Pearl Harbor, he served in quick succession as a battalion commander, G-3 of the 99th Division at Camp Van Dom, Mississippi, and then the Chief of Staff to help activate the 63rd </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Infantry Division.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The 63rd started from scratch and in the minimum time it was in action against the enemy in France and Germany&mdash;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">in</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Colmar, the Saar River crossing, and the formidable array of pillboxes and dragons' teeth of the Siegfried Line. It crossed the Rhine, then the </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Danube, to</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> within sight of the Bavarian Alps before it was relieved in the line just before V-E Day. In a personal handwritten note to Bus in June 1945, the division commander wrote, "More than any other person have you had a major part to play in the design and fitting together of all the components of this great team that we have fashioned and in its direction in combat. To none is due greater credit than to you for its overall high level of achievement and </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;">brillant performance."</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thirty-one years later, Brigadier General M.O. Edwards, Retired, who was first G3 of the 63rd, then a regimental commander for the rest of the action wrote, "I think it is fair to say that because of the great reliance that General Hibbs [the 63rd Division Commanding General] had on Bus's judgment and ability, Bus practically 'ran' the division." He also added that when one of the Regimental Combat Team commands became &ldquo;</span><span lang="NL" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: NL;">open"</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> just before the critical attack on the Siegfried Line, Bus was the best candidate and wanted it very much but the division commanding general needed him more as chief of staff for the entire division.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Returning to the United States after the war, Bus did a brief tour as senior </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Infantry </span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">instructor at The Artillery School, Fort Sill. He went back to Europe in May 1946 to take part in the postwar reorganization in the United States Base Command and the Constabulary for the next three years until he returned to attend the National War College, from which he graduated in June 1950. He then served on the Joint Intelligence Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until he went to Trieste, Italy, in November 1951 to command the 351st Infantry and the Allied interests in that critical, disputed </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">area.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Trieste, he got his first star and was reassigned to the new North African Theatre of Operations command in Naples: Allied Forces Southern Europe. In its critical buildup period, he was first Readiness Officer, then G3 until September 1955, at which time he returned to the Pentagon. As director of plans on the Army General Staff he received his second star, then rose to the post of Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for military operations. Memory calls to mind the calm, poised young major general in 1956 representing the Department of Defense, conducting a serious drill at the alternative government headquarters deep in the mountain at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. All </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;">major</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> government agencies were represented by the chiefs or their deputies. As </span><span lang="NL" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: NL;">rank is</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> reckoned, Bus was probably junior to them all, but he ran the show. They listened and were impressed.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Next was an assignment with troops, whom Bus loved and understood. He was commanding general of the 2nd Armored Division, a combat-ready command at Fort Hood, Texas, then the III Corps, its parent command at the same station, from 1958 to March 1960.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bus was then named Director of the Joint Staff where he received his third star and kept the staff running smoothly for two years. During this period, in 1960, President Eisenhower directed the Pentagon to brief the two presidential candidates, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon, on foreign policy. The Secretary of Defense assigned Bus to this task and from the first meeting, Senator Kennedy was impressed by his knowledge and articulate expression. The impression remained after Mr. Kennedy was elected president.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 1962, Bus and Betty returned to Paris where Bus, now wearing four stars, was head of the United States European Command (EUCOM). They caught hold there as they had everywhere else. Shortly after they arrived, Bus addressed the prestigious American Club of Paris&mdash;whose membership included all the top diplomatic, business, and military members of the American community&mdash;at one of their regular weekly luncheons. Waiting to be introduced, Bus remarked wryly to the man next to him that given his choice, he would not have chosen to speak the week immediately following the brilliant address of Andr&eacute; Malraux, the French Minister of Cultural Affairs, a noted author and French national hero who was an escaped prisoner of war in World War II, </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;">then "Chef de services de dynamitage</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">&rdquo; of the Resistance, as well as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. When Bus finished his illuminating, perceptive presentation of the American military presence in Europe, he received a standing ovation from the same 700 people who had heard M. Malraux the week before.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries liked Bus and Betty, and the newspapers in the European capitals stated quite plainly that General Wheeler would be very welcome as the next Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE), the top post first occupied by General Dwight D. Eisenhower eleven years before. Bus would have loved it; Betty would have loved it; to run out their remaining years of active service in that glittering capital as the senior military person in Europe.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Duty called, however, and in no uncertain terms. As the time approached to appoint a new Army Chief of Staff, President Kennedy directed his military aide, </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">Major General</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Ted Clifton, to ask the chiefs of the other three military services for their suggestions for a choice among the outstanding generals to be considered, along with the Army&rsquo;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> recommendations which obviously included Bus. All three recommended Bus and he was appointed Chief of Staff of the United States Army on 1 October 1962.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Just then, the ugly situation in Oxford, Mississippi broke out and got completely out of state control. The former Chief of Staff had already departed, and Bus arrived at the Pentagon War Room at two o'clock Sunday morning, wearing civilian clothes, before he had even been sworn in. The Secretary of the Army was there, spending most of his time talking on the telephone to the President or to Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General. The senior Army general</span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">present was trying to run the show, but without great success. Another key officer observed late that Bus watched the operation for a<strong> </strong>while, then got a general officer in CONARC on the phone. He recalled that "Bus's end of the conversation went like this: 'Yes &mdash; </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">no </span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">&mdash; yes,' then</span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> long pause and 'I don't care if they're Piper Cubs, put a couple of heroes in them and get 'em on the way!' He hung up and everything started to move. It was like a breath of </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">fresh air."</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After two years as the Army Chief of Staff, Bus was elevated to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he served for an unprecedented six years. Not only did he hold this position for longer than anyone else in history, but he also held it with distinction at a time of national agony, most of the period of the unpopular Vietnam War. When he was first appointed, the big build-up of troops was getting under way, and he stayed on until the winding down process of American withdrawal had been developed.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Through it all, the personal warmth, charisma, and sense of humor that he had shown throughout his career never changed. It was during this time that columnist Drew Pearson wrote that the general's "smile and manner are the moss on a character of granite." In his book </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">The Vantage Point,</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> President Lyndon Johnson made 43 separate references to Bus and recalled sending General Wheeler, "this level-headed and experienced soldier," to Saigon early in 1968 for consultations. However, the incessant pressure and long hours of those eight years under three presidents, which demanded round the clock attention to diplomatic, political, and military considerations, in all of which Bus was eminently qualified, took their physical toll. An annual physical examination revealed that he had worked through a fairly severe heart attack without missing any time. After that, Bus kept up the same pace, but never again left Washington without being accompanied by his physician.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the morning of 2 July 1970, 42 years to the day and hour from the time New Cadet Wheeler double-timed through the sallyport of North Barracks, Bus and Betty were at their retirement ceremony held in a huge hangar on Andrews Air Force Base in Washington to accommodate all the people who wanted to bid them farewell from active military service.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bus had served under three United States Presidents as Chief of Staff and Chairman. He was wearing the first Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal issued, as well as the Army Distinguished Service Medal with two oakleaf clusters, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, each the highest peacetime military award of the respective services. He also wore the Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster, which is awarded only for combat service, and nine other American decorations. There were also twelve major foreign decorations, most of them the highest awarded to foreigners, from countries in Europe, South America, and the Far East: The French Commander of the Legion of Honor; German Great Cross for Distinguished Service; Thailand&rsquo;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant; and from neutral Sweden, Knighthood with Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Sword, among others. On his record also were honorary doctorate degrees from four American universities.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird gave the principal address at the retirement ceremony, and Bus's last official act was reviewing the honor guard. Declining a jeep to circle the cavernous hangar, Bus strode at an unusually fast cadence from the reviewing stand to the right flank of the line, past the select troops of the four military services stretched the entire length of the hangar, then back to the reviewing stand&mdash;a fine figure of a soldier and a leader. Afterward at the reception at the officers Club, someone asked Bus why he had walked at such a brisk clip. "Didn't want them to think I'm getting old," said Bus.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For the next five and a half years, Bus and Betty enjoyed a well-earned retirement in their lovely rural home near Martinsburg, West Virginia. They were pleasantly occupied, and followed their own pace. Bus was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto and enjoyed the occasional contacts with the business world as he did his membership on the President&rsquo;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Commission on White House Fellowships and periodic consultation sessions at the Pentagon. There were pleasant trips to visit Betty's father in Florida and visits with other friends. The Wheelers were well liked in Martinsburg and found the mental stimulation they needed with their friends there.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then, with no prior warning, Bus felt ill and checked in to the King's Daughter's Hospital in Martinsburg. While he was being rushed by ambulance to Walter Reed, his condition worsened; he was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital where his tired heart finally gave out.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The services in the Memorial Chapel at Fort Myer were brief and impressive. Chaplain Duncan C. Stewart, an ex-infantryman, was the officiating clergyman, and the Army Band Chorus sang two appropriate anthems. The front section reserved for West Point classmates and wives was full. Members of the Joint Chiefs and the individual military services were there, as well as Army greats of the past, Generals Gruenther and Lemnitzer, each a former Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe; General J. Lawton Collins ("Lightning Joe," outstanding World War II combat commander and former Army Chief of Staff); and General W.C. Westmoreland. During the ceremony, a life-long colleague since cadet days murmured to his wife, "I hope you will take this as well as Betty when my time comes."</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During the next few weeks, Betty received literally hundreds of letters attesting to Bus&rsquo;s</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">greatness as a person, a leader, and a patriot. Personal notes signed by the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, other cabinet members, members of Congress, and foreign ambassadors added their expressions of loss to those of present and past top military leaders and all other friends. They came from all over the United States and many foreign countries. The former Secretary of the Army when Bus was Chief of Staff wrote, "The leadership he gave to the Army and to the military forces in one of the most difficult times in our history is shared by only a handful of men in our two hundred years." The chief of the United Nations Command in Korea cabled, "&hellip;one of the most distinguished soldier statesmen of this century. Bus has long been one of my heroes by reason of his intellect, probity, courage, compassion and kindness." Another four-star general wrote, "For me he was my Beau</span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ideal<strong> </strong>&mdash; </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">a man</span><strong><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> I</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> instinctively trusted and greatly admired&mdash;someone we all tried to emulate." A retired four-star Air Force general who was a principal in many</span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Joint<strong> </strong>Chiefs of Staff meetings wrote, &ldquo;Having known all the Chairmen since the beginning of the office of the Secretary of Defense, I rate Bus at the top in being objective, non-parochial, eminently fair and most of all a really great American." A hand-written note to Betty from the former Commandant of the Marine Corps and his wife put it quite simply: "I often told him that, in my opinion, he was the best and the greatest of them all... the epitome of West Point's 'Duty, Honor, Country'&hellip;. And we admire you, Betty, for the great help you were to your husband and&hellip; the support [with] which you helped to make possible his success as a </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">soldier."</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There were dozens of letters from those who had not attained such exalted positions in life. The NCO Wives' Club and the members of Bus's former enlisted staff, almost all of them retired themselves, each made a spontaneous contribution to the </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Soldiers,</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Sailors, Marines and Airmens Club to help young military personnel of all services as Bus would have wished. Individual members of his former personal staff were explicit: his last driver, "General Wheeler was the most wonderful man I ever worked for," the steward who took care of their official quarters at Fort Myer, "The General was the finest officer I served under in all my years in the Army&rdquo;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">;</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> the little aging black lady who took care of Betty's clothes and the fine linens, &ldquo;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> wish you lived near so I could do some- thing for you. Please call me if I can help you any time"; and from New Hampshire, Bus's ex-orderly all the time he was in the 63d Division thirty years before, "In all the years since my service days he had never forgotten to write a little note to me at this time of the year.&rdquo; There were others in a similar vein from all along the line wherever Bus and Betty had served.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition to Betty, Bus</span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">is survived by their son, Gilmore Stone Wheeler, PhD (Bim to all who know him), who has his own very successful corporation, Business Industrial Management, in Silver Spring, Maryland; grandsons, William Gilmore and John Robinson Wheeler; and his mother, Mrs. Clifton P. Wheeler of Long Boat Key, Florida.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The feelings of all of us were expressed beautifully in the eulogy by the Honorable Stephen Ailes, who was Undersecretary, then Secretary of the Army from 1961 to 1965 when Bus was Chief of Staff and Chairman. It follows verbatim and, except for a brief introduction and some liaison phrases that are covered above, in its entirety.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"General Wheeler's military credentials are impeccable. He was highly respected </span><span lang="PT" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: PT;">as a</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> professional soldier by his associates in uniform, regardless of the service in which they served. He was greatly ad- mired by his civilian colleagues, without exception&hellip;</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"The record of his career is duly entered in the nation's annals; the analysis we leave to history, totally confident of the verdict.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">&ldquo;Each Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including the present one, has had </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">an</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> arduous assignment and has served the nation well during a difficult period. But almost everyone here would agree that the unprecedented six-year term served by General Wheeler placed extraordinary demands on the chairman, demands which he was uniquely qualified to meet.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"The wisdom and judgment which he brought to the task, based on a lifelong study of world affairs, a lifelong habit of critical appraisal of all policies as they developed, and a determination to bring about sound practical results were important in this regard.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"So also was the total support of the Army, earned by his performance over the years.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"He had a rare ability to bring about consensus, an ability based upon patience, fairness, good humor, his own intellectual contribution to the solution of problems, and the respect in which he was held by his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"He made a unique, personal contribution to the relationship between the military establishment and civilian leadership of the nation. His thorough comprehension of military needs and capabilities was important in this role, but his sensitivity to the forces at work in the larger society, and his ability to see the whole problem were more important still.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"And finally, at a time when civilian-military stresses were growing, no better man could have served in the role of chairman. Congressional leaders, the press, and the public at large had confidence in General Wheeler as a person. This was so, in no little part, because, in Secretary Laird's appropriate phrase (at the retirement review in 1970) he viewed all issues 'through a wide-angle lens.'</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Sadly, these years took their toll, and the price of being the indispensable man was high. The officer who was honored at that review that July day in 1970 had worked himself to exhaustion and had, knowingly, sacrificed his health to do his job, as later events clearly proved.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"In the years when I worked closely with him, I marveled at his ability to function so effectively with so little fan- fare, and to read books and see people, and reflect about the broader issues at the same time. I knew that he was well organized and that he was in the habit of making a highly concentrated personal effort; but he was a most effective leader, clearly in charge, without making a great to-do about getting things done.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"In later years, I asked him how this could be. Quite typically, he said something about the importance of having able people and of relying on them.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Of course, this is only the beginning. As Cy Vance [Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of the Army, then Deputy Secretary of Defense 1962-67] puts it: In Bus, there was a rare combination, a coupling of strength, firmness, and decisiveness on the one hand, with gentleness, kindness, and compassion on the other. I never heard of him being harsh or cruel or unkind with a subordinate. . .</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Similarly, his civilian colleagues were well aware of his consideration for and loyalty to them. The close and effective relationships that resulted, so essential to the proper functioning of our system, were never more needed than in that period of time.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Those of us who were so privileged will always treasure the recollection of evenings in that comfortable home, sitting in front of the fire, or better yet, sitting out on the porch looking out across the fields at the big sycamores along the creek, talking about old times, laughing about amusing things that happened long ago, settling the affairs of the world.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"This nation owes General Wheeler a debt of gratitude beyond measure. All of us who worked with him are the better for it and will never forget him. He was a superb human being."</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Following those final words, the group moved to the cold, windy grave site for the brief ceremony there. Afterward, the Commanding General of the Military District of Washington handed Betty the flag which had draped the casket. Betty turned and gave it to her twelve year old grandson, William G. Wheeler, to carry on the memory of one of our country&rsquo;</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> great men.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 337.0pt 338.0pt 339.0pt 340.0pt 341.0pt 4.75in 343.0pt 344.0pt 345.0pt 346.0pt 347.0pt 348.0pt 349.0pt 350.0pt 351.0pt 352.0pt 353.0pt 354.0pt 355.0pt 356.0pt 357.0pt 358.0pt 359.0pt 5.0in 361.0pt 362.0pt 363.0pt 364.0pt 365.0pt 366.0pt 367.0pt 368.0pt 369.0pt 370.0pt 371.0pt 372.0pt 373.0pt 374.0pt 375.0pt 376.0pt 377.0pt 5.25in 379.0pt 380.0pt 381.0pt 382.0pt 383.0pt 384.0pt 385.0pt 386.0pt 387.0pt 388.0pt; margin: 0in .5in 6.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Betty still resides in the comfortable house on the 150-acre farm on Berkeley Station Road near Martinsburg, that they bought in 1966 as a refuge during brief respites from the frenetic life in Washington. She has been asked to rededicate the cadet skeet range (a gift from 1932 at our 30th Reunion) when it is named the Earle G. Wheeler Skeet Range, at the 45th Reunion this June.</span></p>
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