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Veteran Activist or Government Liar, Who is the Patriot?
By Thomas D. Segel
October 20, 2003
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Few would argue against the military family vote being a major factor in the Republican victory, particularly in the final hours of the Florida recount.snip.....
vast majority of these men and women no longer support the false promise administration of George W. Bush. What is even more disheartening, they have little respect for either of the major political parties and complete distain for all who are responsible for the governmental trail of broken promises.
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"While we were serving in the military, we were expected to have honesty and integrity and took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Our government held us accountable. Today
we expect the same honesty and integrity from them that they expected from us. It is not being returned." Chief Master Sergeant Buck Yeager, a 21-year Air Force veteran from Helensdale, California writes on the Internet,
"the biggest government lie and broken promise is lifetime medical and hospital care was promised but never lived up to." Dixie Mock is the widow of an "Atomic Veteran". She says they all "served proudly and secretly and they are certainly paying the price with their suffering, from both the pain and the rejection by the government. The veteran's families are forced to watch and see the pain in their faces when they continue to get rejections of their claims.
How can the government officials responsible for these lies, cover-ups and denials sleep at night?"...snip....
There were even harsher words, such as those of Lonnie Vessell, a Navy retiree from Crystal City, Missouri. "It is not so much the false promises I am concerned about, but the
scam that our government is running when we send perfectly healthy young men and women to the middle east and have them come back damn near vegetables due to biological or chemical warfare being used...then say it is not our responsibility to care for them and their families. Look how long it took them to admit to Agent Orange and we still don't know the end result of Gulf Wars I and II. This crap has got to stop."
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Secretary of Defense doesn't want to pay them until they are actually on foreign soil. "What kind of a government is this? What have they become? How did we get fooled into voting for these people? I think we, the American people, need to call for a full investigation of how our men and women in uniform are being treated and what kind of support system is in place to help their families while they are away."...snip....
"And we can't forget the promises that claimed, nothing would be denied our service personnel", says Army wife Helen Moore of Las Vegas, Nevada. "Yet many of them were sent into Iraq without the newest and best of protective body armor. Reports abound that family members are buying these improved armaments for their loved ones on the open market from private funds." ..snip....
President Bush tricked all veterans into voting for him with slogans like ' A Promise Made Is a Promise Kept'. He now threatens to veto bills, which would make some of those promises reality."...snip...
They sponsor and co-sponsor nice sounding legislation and then make sure it never reaches the floor for a vote. The next thing they do is write you a letter and blame everything on the opposing party. What a sorry bunch we have in Washington....snip.....
God and the soldier we all adore
In time of trouble, not before.
The troubles over, all things righted,
God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted.
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