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To: michael97123 who wrote (57793)	8/3/2004 4:05:18 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793587

the american people don't care. Mike, You keep saying that. Keep in mind you are not the target audience for this effort. We have 27 million veterans in America. 25 million of those veterans and their families are among the very likely voters. When you see VFW and American Legion spokesmen they are nearly always WWll vets...The rest are usually Korean Vets. Vietnam vets have been the quiet voice in the past. Now for the first time, Vietnam Vets are motivated. Kerry has a handful of Nam vets. Every other Nam vet I know is voting for Bush. Friends have told me the same. Let me tell you how big that is. My wife and I vote alike. Our 3 kids and their spouses always check with us before voting. My dad always asks me. I know I can have a strong influence on 8 folks besides my self who always vote. I believe we are doing some good, perhaps a helluva lot of good. A poll last week shows Kerry has 40% of the military vote. That is a drop of 4% since December. I believe Kerry's 40% is from Vets other than Nam...and they have never heard us speak before so they don't know what we think or even that the charges Kerry leveled against us were phony and false. 4% of 25 million is one million. If each of them influences 4 other voting persons it adds up to 5 million very likely military family votes that have been swung from Kerry to Bush by our effort so far. You may not feel the effort is fruitful, I believe it is. uw

To: michael97123 who wrote (57793)	8/3/2004 8:46:28 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793587

I think many of the American people DO care, michael. Our Democratic Adm and Congress of the 60's and 70's voted for the war, sent our young people, and DID NOT materially support them... We lost 55,000+ people there. And then, many of the young men and women were spit on when they came home. It was totally horrifying to most of us who were also young people at the time. Personally, we opposed the war in Vietnam, but also felt that if we sent our people to war, we HAD the moral obligation to support them. It was really terrible for Kerry to come home and say what he said to Congress, especially when we still had forces and POW's there. Kerry and his vocal small minded group did lie, and were a party to having our Military folks killed. Yes, I am glad to see that some of the Veterans groups are finally going to speak out en masse. It's about time.