Legacy and Result of the Actions of VVAW The reason that "generation of veterans [was] spit upon, shamed, and discriminated against" is the direct result of government run amuck. Should we "relive newsreel footage of [another] overloaded helicopter retreating in shame from the US embassy in Baghdad" it will be due to yet another government running amuck. There exists a widely held myth that this country is the greatest democracy on the planet; it is not. Fact is it's not a democracy at all but a republic with a curious assortment of safeguards, which insure that the powerful will retain power.
The extent to which we suffer stagflation and oil shock directly results from our continued belief that we possess divine destiny, much akin to a now deceased government that also ran amuck; in their case they deluded themselves with a notion of a 1000 year Reich. Seems somehow in our defeating those folks, we incorporated a good bit of their belief that they were omnipotent. Curious that those most patriotic have fallen for the Department of Homeland Security; you'll love the Gestapo! Truth is it's not our oil, it's not our oyster and it's about time we relearn how to live with others; failing which our destiny is unlikely to be all that divine. Skip Bernstein --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jerseyjohn99" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Support his efforts? Why? So this generation of veterans can be spit > upon, shamed, and discriminated against like the 2.5 million > veterans of 30 years ago, which is the legacy & direct result of the > actions of VVAW? So we can relive newsreel footage of an overloaded > helicopter retreating in shame from the US embassy in Baghdad? So we > can have a wounded & impotent nation which was not be able to > protect itself against the stagflation & oil shock days of the late > 70s? > > Thank you for your past service Corporal Hoffman, but I hope > Homeland Security is able to infiltrate and destroy IVAW before it > has a chance to do what VVAW did to this nation so many years ago. > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > AP Listserve Members: > > > > http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_400.html > > > > I just got off the phone with Mike Hoffman, US Marines, one of the > Iraq War > > Veterans featured in the article above. Amazing guy. We > (Educating for > > Justice, www.educatingforjustice.org) are going to partner with > his group to help > > them share their message. > > > > Let me know if any of you want to support his efforts. > > > > Peace, JWK Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
