THE OMAHA WORLD HERALD

"YOUNG MOTHER KNOWS MATE GONE; 'MISSING' STATUS HURTS".

AT 21, LITHE AND ATTRACTIVE AND READY TO BEGIN SAVORING LIFE, YOU ARE
LEFT WITH THREE SMALL CHILDREN AND THE MEMORY OF A BRAVE HUSBAND.

YOU ARE A LITTLE FRIGHTENED AND ENTANGLED IN MILITARY RED TAPE AND
SOMETIMES WONDERING ABOUT PAYING THE GROCERY BILL.

THAT'S WHAT WAR MEANS TO BARBARA CLEGG,, ONE OF THE MAY WIVES WHO LIVE
NOW IN A WAITING WORLD CREATED BY A "MISSING IN ACTION" REPORT.

MRS. CLEGG, WHO LIVES WITH CYNTHIA, 3, STEVEN, 2, AND KAREN, 1, IN A
SMALL WHITE HOUSE AT 1619 FREDRICK STREET, WAS HAPPY LAST SUMMER AT CAMP
CARSON, COLO., WITH SGT. EDWARD L. CLEGG, 24.

HER HUSBAND, THE SONE OF LIEUT. COL. CHARLES W. CLEGG, HAD DECIDED TO
MAKE THE ARMY HIS CAREER.  HE HAD THE BRONZE STAR AND THE PURPLE HEART
TO REMIND HIM OF WORLD WAR II SERVICE, AND HE COULD CONTEMPLATE THE
PLEASURE OF RETIREMENT AT 40 OR SO.

BUT THE 'POLICE ACTION' FLARED UP IN KOREA, AND EDWARD CLEGG LANDED
THERE AUGUST 11 AND WENT INTO ACTION.  A MONTH LATER BARBARA CLEGG'S
TRIAL BEGAN.

THE ARMY REGRETTED TO REPORT THAT SERGEANT CLEGG WAS MISSING IN ACTION. 
ONE CAN ALWAY HOPE, WITH A MESSAGE LIKE THAT.

THEN IN MID-NOVEMBER CAME THE LETTER FROM CORP JOHNNY GRZEGORCKY, A
CHICAGO BOY WHO HAD BUDDIED WITH ED AND BARBARA AT CAMP CARSON:



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