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Providing advocacy for our veterans

It seems our County Commissioners (BOC ) don’t feel they can spend $12,000 a year of OUR money to fund the veterans’ support group SOVO which has been providing vets a stable location for contact, group meetings, etc. Our county has only 62,000 people (including children) and over 9,000 of these are vets.

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Memorial Day tribute the men of USMC 2/5 who died in Ramadi 2004

These images were taken by the Marines with cell phones and digital cameras during my son’s deployment to Ramadi. Many men died and many more were wounded and more, like my son, suffer from traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder. Some of these men died close by my son and one died in his arms and each one’s passing have left a deep mark.

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McNamara lied to LBJ about Gulf of Tonkin

Picture 5And almost 60,000 American GIs died as a consequence. Robert McNamara who died Monday and is regarded as the architect of the disastrous Vietnam War deliberately misled President Johnson and did not inform him that the Gulf of Tonkin crisis had not occurred. His actions as Secretary of Defense also cost the lives of millions of Vietnamese civilians and contamination from Agent Orange causes life threatening birth defects to this day.

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