For the Return of Commander Michael Scott Speicher

Petition On Line ^ | March 18, 2002 | Nikki Mendicino

[Slam]

To: Government of the United States of America

WE, the undersigned have freely set our hand to this petition on the date stated to demand that the government and officials of the United States of America return Lt. Cmdr. Michael Speicher from the country of Iraq where his is possibly being held as a POW/MIA.

THEREFORE, we understand that certain intelligence agencies of the United States has received information that Lt. Cmdr. Speicher is alive and being held captive by foreign officials.

FURTHERMORE, we demand that every resource and tactic, that may be deemed necessary and relative, be implemented and enforced until Lt. Cmdr. Speicher is returned to the United States, be it alive or deceased.

FURTHER RESOLVED, we expect that the officials and government of our country will not tire, will not falter and will not fail in returning Lt. Cmdr. Speicher to the United States of America, where he belongs.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

To Do Something, One little thing

A little light background reading before you get off your hind ends and do something...Compliments of the Virgina Pilot:

Slide Show - What Happened to Scott Speicher?

Scott Speicher Dead or Alive

Part 2 Presumed Dead

Part 3 A Test of Honor

Part 4 Returning to Iraq

Part 5 Hope Reawakens

Part 6 Missing in Action

MIA Pilot may be alive Held in Iraqi Jail

Intelligence Community Assessment of the LCDR Speicher case

Iraqi Response to the questions about the fate LCDR Michael Speicher

And our own Free Republic March 19, 2002:

National Review Online: Scott Speicher, Prisoner of War, Commander Robert Stumpf USN (ret)

[Arioch7]

Come on...

[Arioch7]

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[Arioch7]

Damn you all, READ THIS!!!

If we cant get YOU to care about Cdr. Speicher, what hope do we have.

SIGN!!! How can you stand by? Read this thread and sign!

[Alamo-Girl]

bump!

[Slam]

Thank you!

[Alamo-Girl]

You're welcome! Here's another!

[Arioch7]

Ping...

[Arioch7]

Hey man!

[patriciaruth]

Not sure what can be done except what the President is doing now-- getting our ducks in a row to take out Saddam.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Slam, thank you for this thread !!!

[Slam]

You are welcome snow bunny!

[Arioch7]

Needs more signatures!

[Slam]

We sure do. Just posted this to see how we compare for signatures...sad.

Day 6 Signatures

[Arioch7]

No worries! I plan to hit my address book and circulate 20 more tonight.

I am also having my sister give me a list of e-mail addies right now.

Lets see how it looks at the end of the weekend. I think the numbers will start to look better.

[Slam]

This is authentic and the number is the message line...you can send this along too. Should I post this too.?.don't want to eat up my fair share of BW.

From: Mary Cunningham Mary.Cunningham2@aventis.com
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:13 AM

Subject: Please make one phone call for my uncle!

This e-mail is to ask for your help regarding my uncle, Navy Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher.

Scott was shot down over Iraq while serving our country on January 17, 1991. Soon thereafter Scott was listed as KIA (Killed In Action) by the U.S. Government. Over the following ten years enough evidence was gathered, including the recovery of Scott's intact plane and flight suit in the Iraqi desert, that the U.S. Government changed Scott's status from KIA to MIA (Missing in Action) in January 2001.

Recently, compelling new evidence has come from Dutch and British intelligence services suggesting that Scott did, in fact, eject safely from his plane and is today being held by the Iraqis as a Prisoner of War. Yet Washington politics has still prevented our government from doing everything possible on Scott's behalf.

Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas is leading the charge to help Scott, but we need your help also. The National Alliance of Families has declared the next seven days as "Bring Scott Speicher Home Week".

I am asking each one of you to please call the White House message line at 202-456-1414 and demand that POW/MIA Michael Scott Speicher be brought home. Just a brief phone call.

Before you delete this e-mail please ask yourself whether a few minutes of your time in making this call is more valuable than Scott's service to his country over the last eleven years, and that of his wife and children, now ages 12 and 14.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Mary

Please forward this email to friends.

[Arioch7]

Nice, thanks for the letter. I will call sometime during the weekend.

I just posted my e-mail at another message board and I got a few hits.

I am off to another one now and I will give this one a bump a few more times tonight.

[Arioch7]

*Punt*

[Arioch7]

Geez, you would think that this thread would have blown the roof off of that petition

[Slam]

92,000 plus votes to save a TV show I have never even heard of (Futurama?...oh silly me). To put pressure on the government to find the whereabouts of an American Pilot..hardly zilch in comaprison...this is the story...Americans more concerned over TV program than a Human being....great message to those young folks serving today. Apathy and hot air.

A lot of the knucle heads here would rather blow smoke; argue the parameters of this case, discuss the viability of the evidence, argue the many theories in the forums than reach over and place a call...send a fax, write a letter. This is an addicting place...but it breeds a false sense of action. Talking about things does not get them done.

Was admonished last nite for being to critical of fellow Freepers...yelled back that I didn't care about the fragile sensitivities of a bunch of smart (comfortable in the sanctity of their own homes and offices)barracks lawyer computer jocks...that this is not about them... that this about Scott Speicher. That maybe I was mistaken thinking the folks in here would be energized by this issue...another forgotten Comrade.

Please tell me what is more important than this?

Its another beautiful day. Need to replan and re-attack. Think I'll go to the range!

[Arioch7]

If you cant be critical about people that are ignoring a man that may be alive after living ten years in that hell-hole... what can you be critical about?

You are correct that talking about something gives the illusion of DOING something.

I am giving this forum the benefit of a doubt because of its vast size. I am still disappointed though.

Perhaps todays tally of the signatures will help.

Off to work, will bump later.