I would also like to remind you that as ASUW President I cosponsored this bill to create a memorial, it failed by one vote, and a good majority of those who voted against it wanted more inclusion of other alumni who were combat veterans who earned the Medal of Honor. This week a new resolution to that effect is being drafted and introduced. In the meantime the ASUW supports veterans in other ways, currently we are supporting state legislation that will hopefully pass and guarantee veterans tuition waivers. In the end, the buck stops here, I would appreciate further comments to be made to me. Please do not participate or condone the hate-filled comments and phone calls made toward individuals in our student government. It has been appalling to see what is being said to people. I too am nauseated.HereThank you for you statements.
Sincerely,
Lee Dunbar
I should also note that you may want to read the minutes of the meeting (also linked there) before you post again. From the minutes of the meeting
Andrew Everett said he had drawn up funding proposals for the UWAA, several UW departments, and other private sources of funding.
You were saying....government waste is government waste, no matter how 'patriotic' it appears
Read it again, billbears. The Alumni Association, etc., that is private funding.
Sorry you didn't include Dunbar's email addy... it would be nice to respond to him.
My suggestion to one UW official who was whimpering about lack of space and who would fund it...is that at this point every Marine in the country would fund it... and I would suggest they crash a Corsair nose down in Lake Washington shallows just off shore and have a statue of Pappy climbing out of the cockpit happily waving a whiskey bottle...
It would be the most popular statue on campus...!
And Pappy would LOVE it.