Kerry says veterans should march for benefits, 1 May 2004
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Kerry says
veterans should march for benefits, 1 May 2004
IF YOU SERVE YOU DESERVE
Bonus March II: A New Beginning
The Korean War was fought over 40 years ago. Today the men and women who fought
our Forgotten War are America's elder generation... rapidly fading into distant
memory.
The American veteran population is aging. Within 20 years the majority of
American veterans will be, like their Korean War elders, in their sixties and
seventies... rapidly approaching a time when they will be dependent on others to
assist them perform daily activities and needs their youth took for granted.
As this inevitable future approaches veterans benefits continue to narrow. More
and more veterans express apprehension toward applying for reducing benefits.
Others who succeed in obtaining medical and other benefits tell horror stories
about the vicious competition between vets to get the attention they feel they
require. Meanwhile, veterans organization membership, and the political power
once enjoyed by America's ancestral vet groups, dwindles.
American veterans must come together now in a single movement to ensure they
have the medical and life-support benefits they will soon need. Veterans must
resist all efforts by well-financed and organized anti-military and anti-veteran
organizations who are actively competing for limited social service dollars. The
freedom of all Americans was bought and paid for by the men and women in
uniform. Everything must be done to compensate them for their sacrifice.
IF YOU SERVE YOU DESERVE
The American War Library Calls for Bonus March II: A New Beginning. Demand your
Veteran's group get involved before it's too late.
-- Phill Coleman, Vietnam 1969-70
http://members.aol.com/philliprcoleman
For more information and a list of Veteran needs and enlistment incentives,
please see URL:
1. The Million Veteran's March, 2006
http://www.millionvetmarch2006.com/
2. Bonus Army II (Established 21 December 1997)
http://members.aol.com/vetsofamer/bonus2.htm
3. The Bonus Army
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3710
4. The Bonus Army: An American Epic
http://www.tballen.com/work1.htm
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