Gimpy ...have you thought of this...

[MORTARDUDE]

I would like to know if the principal veterans organizations ( VFW, American Legion, DAV, V V A, and others ) have ever considered pooling their resources and creating media ( TV, radio, print ) advertisements to highlite the plight of veterans in the VA health care system, the con-current pension debacle and all the other concerns ?? As long as they have us divided ( Dems VS. Repubs ) they don't have to do shit...but if we went over there heads to the public, things might change for the better...something needs to be done quickly....there are only about 22,000,000 or thereabouts vets left, and aging, out of a population of nearly 300,000,000 and we are rapidly becoming a very small minority..
the Baby Boomer population will start hitting the first year of eligibility for Social In-security in 2008 ( and many of them avoided service in VN and could care less about us ) and after that who know what the hell will really happen...

Just an idea...nothing else seems to be working now....

Just imagine if the great articles that were in the American Legion
magazine a few months ago about the obscene waits for medical care at the VA were hammered home in all three media like they sell soft drinks and hamburgers ( Take the new Fanta ads for example ).....it sure as hell couldn't hurt...I could design some real beauties.....meld the website that the drifter put up about not forgetting 9/11 with video / audio of vets from WW2 / Korea / VN /
Desert Storm and their treatment afterwards...could call it Operation Shame.....

Larry