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VETERANS DAY: VetsCoR Celebrates in Branson, MO - The Largest Celebration in the Country!
VetsCoR ^ | 11/8/2002 | Veterans for Constitutional Restoration

Posted on 11/08/2002 7:21:18 PM PST by A Navy Vet

On November 11, 2002, America will once again recognize the sacrifices of her former Armed Services members. The largest Veterans Day gathering in the country is usually in Branson, MO. This year VetsCoR is pleased to participate in the celebration and will have an exhibitor display at the White House Theater Banquet Hall. We will be there on the 10th and 11th, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm both days.

We are also sharing our booth space with representatives from S.A.F.E. and FitAimAct organizations. In addition, Major General John K. Singlaub (ret.) will be at our shared booth signing copies of his book, "Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century". As a WWII paratrooper, Gen. Singlaub worked in the clandestine OSS, jumping into both Nazi-occupied France and Japanese-occupied Indochina to organize guerillas and rescue Allied POW's. He helped develop the Army Ranger program, was a founding member of the CIA, and fought in Korea and Viet Nam.

Would love to see you Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas Freepers join us in our celebration of American Veterans!! Branson is close the the four corners of those states.


TOPICS: VetsCoR
KEYWORDS: branson; missouri; veterans; veteransday; vetscor
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To: A Navy Vet
Good morning

Thanks for the ping & Bttt
21 posted on 11/09/2002 3:08:55 AM PST by firewalk
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To: A Navy Vet
Thanks for the ping. I would love to be there but can't. To bad too because I drive by Branson on hwy 65 on my way to the cabin in the Ozarks. Hope it's a good turn out though.
22 posted on 11/09/2002 6:22:37 AM PST by the rifleman
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To: A Navy Vet
Be blessed ..Texas Navy sonm a bit far...but all one heart
23 posted on 11/09/2002 6:52:01 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: A Navy Vet
Would love to be there but ya gotta give earlier notice.
24 posted on 11/09/2002 8:46:28 AM PST by Just another Joe
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To: SAMWolf
A LETTER FOR VETERAN'S DAY

Dear President Bush,
 
I am stunned and disappointed that your representatives are conducting a public and misleading campaign to keep deducting disabled military retirees' disability compensation from their earned military retired pay.
 
83% of senators and 90% of House members are on record supporting an end to this severe inequity.  But, incredibly, senior Administration officials are trying to deny there's any problem, saying all of these disabled retirees are well off.
 
That's patently ridiculous and offensive, especially at a time when the Administration is planning for major action to send thousands of American forces in harm's way.  This is the wrong message to send to America's men and women in uniform -- that if they serve a career defending their country and have the bad luck to become disabled in the process, the government supports docking their retired pay.
 
You should be supporting fairer treatment, and not letting your senior administrators oppose it in this shameless way.
 
Sincerely,
A Disabled Retiree

25 posted on 11/09/2002 8:54:22 AM PST by advocate10
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To: A Navy Vet; Militiaman7; Jim Robinson; dcwusmc; Eastbound; Trueblackman; ...
Veterans Day Weekend BUMP

Click on the imageCMHonor to visit the tribute page


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Toward FREEDOM

26 posted on 11/09/2002 9:07:19 AM PST by Neil E. Wright
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To: A Navy Vet
Up , up and away.... Bump
27 posted on 11/09/2002 9:21:51 AM PST by Eastbound
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To: advocate10
I'm also a disabled retiree and I don't get ANY of my retirement that I earned in 24 years of service.

I've contacted all the congressional types here in Indiana and been given lip service on the bill. It was passed last year but wasn't funded because "it will break the back of the federal budget." That's what I was told by one member of our honorable delegation.

Everyone contact a MOC and let them know we earned it and we want it. All other federal retirees are getting their disability from the VA and their federal retirement.

Just another royal screwing for the great unwashed. Nobody loves us unless we are being threated, otherwise, just shut up and sit in a corner till we need you again.

Sorry for the rant. I've been away for a while and had to get that off my chest as a way of welcoming myself back.

28 posted on 11/09/2002 6:07:42 PM PST by Hondo1952
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To: A Navy Vet
A great big "Thank You" to all the veterans.
29 posted on 11/10/2002 4:51:27 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Hondo1952; Militiaman7; navyvet
You pesky disabled vets! Your service is no longer required! You get 'something,' don't you?

Why, of all the nerve! these "double dippers" want their retirement pay AND compensation for permanent disability from wounds the cowards got in some little battle. How dare they ask us honest taxpayers to remember what they consider a sacrifice?! They get all they deserve, and more! They can even buy cheap tobacco at the PX! Screw 'em!

30 posted on 11/11/2002 3:51:59 AM PST by advocate10
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To: SAMWolf
You pesky disabled vets! Your service is no longer required! You get 'something,' don't you?

Why, of all the nerve! these "double dippers" want their retirement pay AND compensation for permanent disability from wounds the cowards got in some little battle. How dare they ask us honest taxpayers to remember what they consider a sacrifice?! They get all they deserve, and more! They can even buy cheap tobacco at the PX! Screw 'em!


31 posted on 11/11/2002 3:54:05 AM PST by advocate10
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To: A Navy Vet
Bump.
32 posted on 11/11/2002 3:55:58 AM PST by advocate10
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To: A Navy Vet
A Navy Vet, I saw this thread and thought I would issue an invitation to our show tonight.

Tonight in the Paltalk Room, Patriots of the Republic & the Second Amendment will be having their Veterans Day show in lieu of the normal Constituion study. It will start at 11 our time. The show will also be broadcast over Mel Pyatts's Crusader Radio.

We invite you to listen in at http://www.crusaderadio.com
All times listed at Mel's site are Pacific Standard Times.

So please join us tonight for our tribute to our veterans!
33 posted on 11/11/2002 5:14:13 AM PST by dixie sass
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To: A Navy Vet
Veterans Day BTTT
34 posted on 11/11/2002 7:09:43 AM PST by Militiaman7
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To: advocate10
Billion$ For Baghdad - Nothing For Veterans

WASHINGTON (Oct. 31, 2002) - "I just don't get it!" American Legion National Commander Ronald F. Conley said, referring to the failure of congressional conferees to ignore the specter of a presidential veto and to approve concurrent-receipt legislation before Election Day.

"President George W. Bush said we have billions of dollars to rebuild Baghdad, not to mention Afghanistan," said Conley, whose 2.8-million member Legion is the nation's largest veterans organization. "At the same time, his non-veteran advisors are saying they will encourage him to veto any legislation that corrects the inequity of concurrent receipt, because it is a budget buster. Well, 402 House members and 82 Senators did not think so when they voted for correcting a 100-year-old travesty. The travesty is that service-disabled military retirees, by law, are the only group of Americans who have to give up their retirement pay dollar-for-dollar to collect their disability pay."

The 2003 National Defense Authorization that conferees will deal with after the election contains concurrent-receipt provisions that would allow service-disabled military retirees to receive their full military retired pay as well as their disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under a federal law passed in the 1890s, service-disabled military retirees receive a cut in their retired pay equivalent to their VA disability compensation.

Consider the case of two service members in the same wartime military unit. One is injured during military service, leaves the military after a five-year enlistment and is awarded VA disability compensation while working a federal civilian job, and continues to collect full disability after retirement.

The other is injured also, and is given a disability rating by VA after retiring with 20 years of military service. Both veterans are federal retirees. But the military retiree is the only federal retiree that receives a cut in retired pay equal to the amount of disability compensation.

"Obviously this is wrong," Conley said. "I'll tell you something else that's wrong. Two weeks before a major national election, the power brokers in Congress stalled the conference committee, so that no version of concurrent receipt could reach the president's desk prior to November 5th.

"These same non-veteran advisors to the president claim that paying disability and retirement would jeopardize national defense. My response to that is this: There is money budgeted in the House version and even if there wasn't, no civilized nation can afford to send its young men and women to war, and then play the budget shell game with them after 20 or 30 years of service defending our nation.

"What signal does this send our brave young men and women who are now going to war? Is it, 'Don't get wounded, don't get shot, and don't get ill, because we didn't budget for that?' If we didn't budget for concurrent receipt, then perhaps we should rebuild the Baghdads of this world tomorrow and take care of our veterans today.

"It is the same old story as told by the English poet Rudyard Kipling, when speaking about the British soldiers referred to as Tommys when he said: 'Tommy this and Tommy that. Chuck him out, the brute. But he is the savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot.'"

Copied from the American Legion Website

35 posted on 11/11/2002 9:07:25 AM PST by Militiaman7
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To: advocate10
Boy oh boy, at YOU ever misinformed - advocate10!

You have the nerve to call US veterans pesky? And then say their serive is no longer required? And you think you know about disabled veterans?

Get a F******! life!

JLO
36 posted on 11/28/2002 6:10:55 PM PST by JLO
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To: JLO
You took my post wrong. I was being sarcastic!

I have posted at least a dozen pro-vet articles on FR and my post was intended to reflect many of the $h*tty replies I got. FReepers generally don't care about vererans. That's what I was saying.

37 posted on 11/28/2002 6:57:13 PM PST by advocate10
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To: JLO
See post #25.
38 posted on 11/28/2002 6:58:48 PM PST by advocate10
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