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VETERAN'S DAY 2006 - ANOTHER MOCKERY
By: Devvy Kidd
November 13, 2006
© 2006 - NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd230.htm
Two days ago Americans celebrated Veterans Day by rushing to local retailers offering the best deal. Hundreds of thousands packed football stadiums nationwide to celebrate Veterans Day, sing the national anthem and then off to the beer vendor. But, what about the veterans? Where shall I start?
July 2002 - the Bush Administration. Press release from Jay Walley, The Paragon Foundation News Service
"Led by Medal of Honor winner and attorney, Colonel George "Bud" Day, the firm position, from which they are immovable. They are demanding the earned health care promised them in return for faithfully serving our country for twenty to thirty years of their lives.
"Politicians, bureaucrats, even the leadership of our Justice Department once heralded these same men and women as the nation's heroes. Now they viciously attack the retirees because the government has been asked to honor past promises.
"The promises voiced for more than sixty years by military recruiters and government publications started proving false in 1995. That was the year our government denied World War II and Korean War military retirees access to military hospitals. A suit was filed by Colonel Day claiming breach of contract. There were legal blows and counter-blows until the year 2000. In March of that year a three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. agreed that the government had wrongfully breached its contract with the two retired officers who were the initial plaintiffs in the suit....
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