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Defend the Country
To the Editor:
This is in response to the letter by Bob Gildea that appeared in the June Minn. Legionnaire condemning President Bush.
It is the 1st duty of a president to defend the country.
At the commencement of the Iraq war, almost everyone, including leading Democrats, believed Saddam Hussein had the capability of inflicting grievous damage on this country, and he probably did. Saddam's own generals believed he had nuclear weapons. This president would have been remiss not to take the action he did after 9/11. Granted, underlings weren't aggressive enough in the follow-up, but Bush relied on the best available advice.
I'm mighty tired of ankle-biters with the benefit of hindsight. President Bush is our Commander-in-Chief, and any veteran should know that catastrophe can result from refusing to follow the leader in time
of war.
Richard Doyle
Forest Lake
Not like cattle
To the Editor:
Thank you Mr. Bob Gildea for letting the Legionnaire know that us liberals serve
& fight for this country every bit as willingly as our conservative friends & will not be led like non-thinking cattle to support a war we were lied into.
I & my Marine Corp buddies gave Harry
Truman hell for some of the things he did while we were in Korea, but he had guts enough to apologize.
Allen Dziuk
Carlsbad, Calif.
Montevideo Home
Letter to the Editor:
Your article "Veterans do well in Legislature this year" was very good news for veterans and our service personnel serving in the
military.
One important item was missing. Montevideo is also actively pursuing a "Veterans Home". We were there to testify on three different occasions and Montevideo is not asking for all the money from the State. We had a bus load of veterans present at the committee hearings on two different hearings. Would it not make more sense to build the home in Montevideo that already has a Community Outbased Clinic for the veterans and is better located to service veterans. Legion representatives were at all the hearings and should have also included us as a possible site. Lets keep politics out of this and locate the Veterans Home where it best serves the "Veterans and their Family" and not think of what it will do economically for the community.
Marvin E Garbe, Commander
Post 59
Montevideo
Hate the War
To the Editor:
Hurray for Bob Gildea of Arlington and his great to the point letter on
the Legion's stance on Iraq and our President in the June issue.
I've been a member of the American Legion Auxiliary for 60 years since I was 16 and I love the organization and the Legion, but I've wondered when
someone (a Legionnaire) would come right out and say that we're sure many Legionnaires and Auxiliary members hate this war and have a deep dislike for Mr. Bush. Yet we all support our troops. It's finally out in the
open and food for thought, huh?
Marion Wignes
Ghent
Set the record straight
To the Editor:
In the June issue of the Mail Call in the Legionnaire,
Cletis Myster of Henderson, Nev., was fearful that certain service men and women might trivialize the status of World War II veterans because they might not have been in the service before Aug. 10, 1945.
Let's set this straight:
1. Although the cessation of hostilities may have occurred on Aug. 10, 1945, the actual declaration of the end of World War II was as of Dec. 31, 1946.
2. Case in point. I enlisted in
the U.S. Army on Aug. 28, 1946, and served one year in Japan with the army of occupation. I am a paid-up-for-life member of the American Legion, and recently received a certificate of appreciation from the chief of
staff of the Army, as did many other veterans. I am a World War II veteran.
Paul Ewing
Edina
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