Veteran License Plates

[phuloi]

Disabled Vet plates are free for life in Washington.Also have Purple Heart,POW,and Pearl Harbor Survivor plates

[Packo]

To get DV tags one must be 100% SC, permanent. They are free and you don't have to pay Personal Property Taxes on your car or land.

I have Purple Heart tags. When I moved from NC to SC the tags were $90 and considered the same as any other Vanity plate. We got the legislature to change that. Now they are a beautiful tag and cost just a small amount less then a regular tag. The PH tag in NC was the stupidest thing I had ever seen. It is my underestanding that it has since been changed. The PH on it didn't even look like a PH. Dragon may update us on that.

I think those are the only 2 Veteran related tags we have here.

Packo

[Seascamp]

In Nevada Vet plates cost $61.00 the first time then $30.00 per year extra thereafter. The extra $30.00 goes to the VA, or so it is said. Selection is limited to branch of service with appropriate symbol, Purple Heart recognition and things of that nature. A DD214 is required in all cases.

Scamp

[Andy]

In Massachusetts number of plates are available.
CMO - DSM - DSC - POW are free.
Disabled Vet - Purple Heart are free if your 70% or more.

Purple Heart (under 70%) Silver Star, Bronze Star, Vet (with branch of service) are all Vanity plates unless you are in one of the top two catigories and have a second car registered in your name.

Regular plates are $40 per year, Vanity plates are $75. However number plates like just about everything else are going up next year, cigaretts for example will be $5.00 a pack.

Friend of mine from the 4/23rd Mech Infantry and his wife just spent the weekend here. Duff drove from Mo. He had Purple Heart plates and said he had to pay for them - no extra charge but no break either.

(It was sort of an embarrassing. Duff drank all my rum and liquor stores are closed on Sundays {old Blue Laws}, so I had to let him break open a bottle of Courvoisier. It was sad seeing that bottle empty this morning.)

Stay healthy,
Andy

[Drywall]

WWII, Korea, Vietnam and DS all with service ribbons in full color.

PH, Ex-pow and Pearl Harbor.

It's ten bucks a years extra for the first four. Don't know how much for the others. You have to send a copy of your DD214 to get them.

Oh yeah, there are also some with NG and Ready Reserve on them.

The PH plate has a Purple Heart Medal and the words "Combat Wounded" with purple letters on it. They look real good.

[DMZ-LT]

What Little John said about tags in GA. Also in GA you have to renew your drivers licence every 4 years at a cost of 7 bucks. Not sure if it's cause I am a vet or a 40 % disabled vet but they waive this fee and stamp "vet" on my licience

[Packo]

You'd better have another bought by Friday. VSOP if you please. (of course if you can afford XO.........)

Packo

[Sgt_Tropo]

Texas has plates for WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Deseert Storm, etc. They cost $5.43 cents a year, unless you want to "personalize" them, then it's $40 the 1st year and $30 a year after that. You need to show proof (DD214) that you actually served "in country" to get the plates. There is also a plate for PH, MoH, POW, and others. You certainly don't see the V'Nam plates as much as you do the PH plates. Wonder why ? ne reason is that the TxDoT doesn't activly promote these because they lose the high tax revenue they could get on the "regular" plates.

Go for it, dude ! I got mine on order.

[sfc_darrel]

NNS020703-15. New Virginia License Plate Exhorts Citizens to 'Fight Terrorism'

By Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Virginians soon will be able to sport vehicle license plates bearing a Pentagon-shaped logo and the words "Fight Terrorism" emblazoned in red letters in
remembrance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America.

The first plates are slated for delivery by the one-year anniversary of the attacks in New York, Virginia and
Pennsylvania, said Virginia House of Delegates representative Bob Hull today at an outdoor unveiling ceremony near the Pentagon.

Hull sponsored the state legislation creating the license plates. He noted Virginians could obtain the new plates as way to show solidarity for the first responders who came to help in the wake of the attacks, to remember victims and to demonstrate "a national effort to resist this type of thing from ever happening again."

The Pentagon logo on the plates features an American flag and employs a silhouette of the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers to form the "11" of the date of the attacks. The
plates also commemorate the terrorist assault aboard the hijacked airliner that crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

Arlington County Chief of Police Edward A. Flynn said the logo was discovered among items the public left as part of an informal memorial erected near the damaged Pentagon as police processed evidence in the days just after the attack.

The Arlington police were impressed with the logo's "simplicity and power to evoke those terrible days," Flynn said.

The police wanted to adopt the logo. After much searching, they discovered the logo's designer, a Texan named David Paranteau, who gave them permission to use it for charitable fund-raising, Flynn said.

So the policemen decided to produce lapel pins, T-shirts and decals featuring the design for sale, he said, with proceeds earmarked for Sept. 11-related charities.

The license plates can be ordered now at Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles offices or online at ww.dmvnow.com. A "vanity-plate" version costs $20, $10 more than the standard version, while a non-vehicle souvenir plate is $10.

[Andy]

A drivers license for 4 years and it cost $7.00? Are you kidding me!?! It was $15.00 for a 4 year license in 1964!!!! Do you guys get all your money from writing out of state, as in Northern cars, tickets for doing 26 in a 25 MPH zone just off the interstate? Do we have to pay everyone's tax???

Well, we have something called the Big Dig. It's a tunnel from down town Boston (off of Ted Williams Drive), to Logan airport. The Federal Govt. agreed to pay 85%. The original cost was 2 Billion dollars. So far they've spent 14.2 Billion and there are leaks. We are thinking of only letting out of towner's use the thing. Keep working - Keep paying those federal taxes, we don't loose!

XO - HAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR. Acme cognac and you'll like it.

Stay healthy,
Andy