What exactly do we have to do to help make sure this doesn't pass?? Send a
letter to the congressman of our state? To the president? Who and what I
will be glad to do my part.
Thanks,
Matt Mouser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Floyd Petri" <fpetri@eastex.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:14 PM
Subject: [MV] Fw: [MV] VFW and S1416
> I am very disappointed in the VFW supporting S1416. Then again I have no
> confidence in their leadership. In my opinion they are a bunch of
> premadonnas. Two years ago I received a very nice letter from the VFW
> National Headquarters saying that we know that you are retired from the
> military and wish for you to join the VFW and support us, bla bla on and
on.
> Well I filled out the application and put my information on the form and
> sent it along with my check into VFW HQ. A few weeks later I received
> another letter along with my returned check stating that they were sorry,
> but I could not join the VFW. I was only on Guam loading bombs on B-52s to
> bomb Vietnam and I never put a foot on the ground in Vietnam. Generals
stood
> on the briefing stage and told me we (I) was at war no matter what the
> people back home thought. Evidently they did not tell the VFW Committee.
>
> So they can just kiss my a... and another thing. The government told me
that
> I would have free medical the rest of my life when I joined if I stayed
for
> retirement. So what did they say about that? Oh no. Pamphlets don't count
> they are not law. Recruiters can't obligate the government. That is not
law.
> The law does not provide for free medical the rest of your life.
>
> Well if they pass S1416 it will be law. It will be in the law that they
can
> come and take it away and there will always be the little prick that has
> never seen the first day in the military try to come get it too. The VFW's
> committee's opinion does not mean shi... cause it is not the law.
>
> Wake up America! Before it's too late.
>
> Floyd Petri
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <TacticalTruck@aol.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:24 PM
> Subject: [MV] VFW and S1416
>
>
> > Read something disturbing on www.aero-news.net:
> >
> > quote
> > "First, the VFW's reasoning:
> > Bob Manhan, at the VFW, left us a chilling message. "We [VFW] strongly
> > endorse the whole Defense Authorization Act, both the House and the
Senate
>
> > versions. Look at p. 351 [the committee's opinion, as seen in ANN, which
> says
> > it doesn't expect WW II planes, for instance, to be targeted for
> destruction
> > -- even though that's exactly what the wording of the bill says]." He
> > continued, "We support this because there is some stuff out there, that
> could
> > -- if fallen into the wrong hands -- could be used by for criminal,
> terrorist
> > activities. That's why, generally speaking, we support the whole
> [profanity
> > deleted] enchilada." Using that logic, the VFW leadership would want to
> > disarm the entire United States, down to the last butter knife. [If the
> law
> > doesn't mean what it says, it should be rewritten to say what it means.
> > --ed.]"
> > end quote
> >
> >
> > I'm sure many HMV owners belong to the VFW and many of us who are not
Vets
> > have hauled Vets in our HMVs in parades and such. I feel sure the Vets I
> know
> > would not feel the same way as the person quoted here. We need to call
our
> > VFW connections and explain why this bill is so bad to get them to
> pressure
> > their leadership to change it's position. Has every one caled their
> > Congressman yet? Get on the stick! I called Sen. Warner's office today
and
> it
> > appears he's strongly against it.
> > Jeff
> > TacticalTruck.com
> >
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