Volunteer
Buell volunteered with the International Voluntary Services in 1958, at the salary of sixty-five dollars a month. In May 1960, he left Indiana for an orientation course in Washington, D.C., and then flew to Laos (his first time out of the United States) for his new job.
In Laos, Pop (as he came to be universally known) was assigned to a small village about 100 miles north of Vientiane. He lived in a hut without plumbing or electricity, his life there reminding him of growing up on the farm in Indiana.
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“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.”
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