concerned veterans for america

AuthorDenny Gillem

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Memorial Day

This year Memorial Day really dominates two weekends. The “legal” or “official” Memorial Day is the last Monday in May; this grants us a 3-day weekend. That’s 24-26 May. Traditional Memorial Day is 30 May, whatever day...

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Time Magazine Iwo Jima

Time Magazine, in their 21 April issue, now says that the clearly disproven theory (not science) of global warming is of greater danger to us than is terrorism!!! Their cover takes the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of our marines planting the flag on...

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More Foolishness in Grand Rapids

The Grand Rapids (MI) City government seems to be working overtime to try to catch up with the un-American idiocy of the Berkely, CA, city council. First they debated and approved a resolution damning the current war in Iraq–this is really not...

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Anti-war folk are pro-violence

The trend is clear. As has been the case throughout history, those who say they that they are anti-war regularly use violence as a means of making their point–just as they say that they are pro-free-speech, but will shout down or attack those...

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Anti-military protestors

The weekend of 15 March there will be gatherings of anti-military protestors all over the country. One gaggle of them will be in Grand Rapids. Please join me at noon at Grand Rapids Veterans Park to protect our monuments and to show the community...

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Trying to fix Berkley, CA

It seems that the city government of Berkley, CA, just can’t control the hate that they have for our nation and it’s military. In January they formally condemned the US Marine Recruiting Station in the city and have called the marines...

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Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act

A bill to block the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from collecting money from the families of fallen service-members was introduced by Sen. a href=” Bailey Hutchison/a (R-TX) this week.br /”This bill is about honoring our fallen...

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VA Secretary James Peake

I was delighted to see Dr. James Peake become the nation’s 6th Secretary of Veterans Affairs when he was sworn in by President Bush on 20 Dec. Fourty-one years ago right now I was the company commander of Co C, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 501st...

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Presidential Candidate Report Card #2 of 7

Graded category #2. We are at war and must win. Plan to exploit success in Iraq. The bravery and blood of our brave warriors has purchased for the world and for the nation two Mideastern nations, Iraq and Afghanistan, which are not dominated by...

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