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For those who've wondered why I've been so quiet the last few days, the main explanation is the amount of time I've spent trading emails with friends about the project I first mentioned here. As I said here:

TACAN, Rurik and I, and some other Viet Nam [see the correction below] vets who prefer to remain out of the spotlight for the moment, are still in the early stages of planning a series of public demonstrations to let the decision makers in this country know that we won't sit by idly and let our current generation of warriors be stabbed in the back like we were.  I hereby call bullshit on those who claim to support our troops but not their mission. This nation owes it to those who've served in Iraq, and especially to those who've died there, to finish the job they started. We will not sit on the sidelines and let what happened to us, and to over 58,000 of our brothers and sisters who died in Viet Nam, happen to a new generation of warriors. We're old, we're tired, and some of us are sick, but we've never run from a fight and we aren't about to run from this one.

[Correction, also added to my original post: I've been informed that two members of our core team are Cold War vets but not Viet Nam vets, both having completed their military service before the U.S. was heavily involved in 'Nam. Our team currently consists of those two gentlemen, four Viet Nam vets, and one Soldier currently serving in Iraq.]

We're still very much in the "brainstorming" stage (advice welcome) but  we've made substantial progress in several areas and should be ready to to tell you more soon. For now, I'll just pass on a little bit of information now and promise that more's coming later:

• The name "Million Veterans March" is out.  There have been too many "Million This" and "Million That" marches already, very few of which even came close to reaching that number, and we need a name that better describes who we are and what we're trying to accomplish. We've settled on the project and organization name "Veterans Support Our Troops."

• We've concluded, after consulting some people who've been through the process, that there's no way we can organize a rally as big as we have in mind by Veteran's day. Instead we're going to shoot for local rallies in as many places as we can on that day and a huge showing in Washington next summer, tentatively on Independence Day.

• I've been elected interim webmaster (until we can afford a pro) for a site we hope to have on line within a few days.

• We're still discussing the exact wording of our Mission Statement but I hope to be able to post it here within a day or two. 

Developing ...

Update: Linking to Greyhawk's Open Post.

Posted by Bill Faith on July 11, 2005 at 01:15 AM in Veterans Support Our Troops | Permalink

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