About a year ago, a group of VietVets, along, with their family and friends united as a family of sorts to raise money through the Room to Read program to build a elementary school for the children in Vietnam. We not only raised enough to build a school, but also had money left over for a language lab- We raised 10,000 dollars. HOOOOOOOOO-AAAAAAAAH!
About the school
Our success at this endeavor has encouraged us to do more to help the youth in Vietnam; and, of course other VietVets and their families in need. So, we have decided to start the VietVets Family Project. If you would like to make a donation, you can send a check or money order to the address above. Thank you for all your help-JHL
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Memorial to Bob "Scotty" Scott
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Base Closings. Every few years, there's a big exercise where the American public, those of us who care, are put through this experience. There's a Commission: they look at all the military facilities. They have staffs, they go for visits, they intimidate the people at these bases. The people at the bases put on a good show, taking them away from what they are suppose to be doing. The Commission goes back to the funny farm,i.e., Washington DC, and they make a recommendation to a gutless Congress who lamely accepts the recommendations.
All the while, it is a sham. Basically, all that happens is that we transfer tax payer dollars from one pot to the other. In the long run, nothing is saved for the taxpayer and an exercise in futility takes place. And, there's the psychological effect which is incalculable. A local military presence disappears from the American conscience: a sham.
And, worse of all, the person making the recommendations is the Secretary of Defense, who has been the architect for the worst debacle in modern military history, IRAQNAM. And, we are to trust his guidance? Give me a break!--KT
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