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[coldwarvet]

I am not much of a writter. Please feel free to polish this up so we can get this message published in papers throughout America.

Please encourage your members to write a letter their editors and if they refuse to print it encourage your chapter to conceal their subscriptions.

"There they go again" Our future Veterans deserves an honest media.

In 1971 (is like yesterday for many of the Vietnam Veterans) the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans against War) organization produced testimony to be given before a senate hearing committee that focused on the alleged actions of a few and with one broad brush implicated 2.5 million members of the military as supporting a free fire zone mentality of death and destruction. The media picked up the story and pounded away at the American psychic day after day. The result of this coverage was a much distorted public opinion of the American troops. And as the Vietnam veterans came home they were treated with a spirit of non approval from not only strangers but former school mates and even members of their own family. America also had several hundred men in captivity that were presented with this same VVAW dogma day after day in an effort to break their spirits.

Fast forward 2004 - "There they go again" the media finds a story about uniformed Americans behaving badly and pound pound and pound away at it eroding public opinion. They will stay on this story until there is another story about uniformed Americans behaving badly and then the drum beat will begin to pound away some more. I am not saying stories about uniformed Americans behaving badly should not be covered, however when they cover a story beyond the point of no new information being added and at the expense of the positive things that the American public should be informed about it is an abuse of the troops in harms way that have kept us out of harms way for over 32 months now.

Questions informed Americans should be able to answer
1. When was a military and intelligence base establishment in the heart
of the terrorist world?
2. How many corpses were uncovered from mass graves?
3. How many non terrorist Iraqi corpses have been added to the grave yard over the past 12 months?
4. How young were some of the prisoners found in Saddams prison?
5. When was the Iraqi constitution drafted?
6. What percentage of the al-Qaeda’s leadership has been killed or captured?
7. Why haven’t we had another terrorist attack in more then 32 months?

If this was a quiz how many of these questions could you answer?

Perhaps we would know the answers to these questions if they were being covered by the media or is the media to busy looking for the next American behaving badly story. Or worse, how can we put another fresh face on the prison abuse story today?

There is a grass roots movement of veterans who do not want to see this generation of troops abused the same way the Vietnam Veterans were. The veteran community is asking the American public to support our troops by completely removing CBS from their life. Veterans are going to utilize the parental control feature on their televisions and put a lock on CBS. This is a very serious issue and we need to send a very strong message and apply punishment that will be felt in every board room of every media outlet across the country. The troops in harms way have given so much to us so we can carry on with our normal lives in a very hostile world I think we can go without CBS for the next several months.
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Defender of the honor of those in harms way keeping us out of harms way.

"Peace is our Profession"
Strategic Air Command - Motto

USAF 75-79 Security Police

[sdpatriot]

coldwarvet,
i think your letter is great! i love that you are calling people to
gaurd against disgracing and dishonoring this generation of
American Soldiers. that is my main mission also.
good luck with it. i would love for you to send it to the Minneapolis
Tribune and the Sioux Falls SD papers as well. Daschle has been
running adds here lately that say how much money is being spent
on the rebuilding of Iraq, and then says this money would be
better spent in the U.S. ..

i see your name is Jelinek, you aren't by chance related to an
older couple who lived in Clearwater County in Northern Minnesota?
Felix Jelinek? just curious... my folks live down the road..

sdpatriot
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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

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