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E-mail received by ACWV member FRANK ALMQUIST (Illinois resident)
Please accept my sincere apology for the delay in my response to your e-mail in support of the Cold War Victory Medal. I am still working on the challenge of responding efficiently to as many as 2,000 letters, e-mails and calls a day from my Illinois constituents.
I agree that the Cold War Victory medal would be an appropriate honor. The Cold War was a period that required both skilled diplomacy and military readiness. For veterans such as yourself, who had to be prepared to fight a war that most people agreed would be catastrophic, there certainly should be some recognition of service and willingness to defend and go to battle for the United States.
In each of the past two years, the Cold War Victory Medal has passed the House as part of its version of the annual defense authorization bill but has been stymied by influential members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In both cases, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee chose not to include the Cold War Victory Medal provision in their version of the bill, and House negotiators have conceded to them during conference committee negotiations as well. I certainly share your hope that this impasse can be broken soon.
Again, I apologize for the inordinate delay in my response. I hope it will not deter you from staying in touch.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
United States Senator
Jon
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"PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH !!"
I put the following on the President-elect web site:
pledge for a Cold War Victory medal as stated to the Cold War Veterans
Association. Letter sent to Frank Almquist by President-elect Barack Obama."
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The President Elect's web site is asking question with people responding to yes or no. Please vote by going
to Below web address. You need to go to Open for Questions round two. Go to the bottom and select
"Open for Question Feature Here" Then select National Security, once that is done, in the search slot
type Cold War and let it search. Today there are about thirty questions listed. Once you find the above,
vote yes and it will ask you to sign in. Make sure the yes is still selected after the sign in. You can monitor its progress by signing in and doing the same search. If there are enough people voting for this topic I expect
they will take it to the next round if they do that?
http://change.gov/
Denton Aylor
I just checked the sign in again and you do not have to go to National Security, Just type Cold War in the search block.
Denton Aylor
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Cold War Victory Medal
I agree that the Cold War Victory medal would be an appropriate honor. The Cold War was a period that required both skilled diplomacy and military readiness. For veterans who had to be prepared to fight a war that most people agreed would be catastrophic, there certainly should be some recognition of service and willingness to defend and go to battle for the United States.
In each of the past two years, the Cold War Victory Medal has passed the House as part of its version of the annual defense authorization bill but has been stymied by influential members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. I certainly share your hope that this impasse can be broken soon.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
United States Senator
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"PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH !!"
Denton started the process for us, get on that website and vote it up as well as leaving some comments!
Jon
Guys
I received this from the Obama Admistration, get everyone you can to vote and comment.
Thanks
Denton Aylor
Sgt. USARMY Germany 1963-66
Dear Denton,
We wanted to tell you about a new feature on Change.gov which lets you bring your ideas directly to the President.
It's called the Citizen's Briefing Book, and it's an online forum where you can share your ideas, and rate or offer comments on the ideas of others.
The best-rated ones will rise to the top, and after the Inauguration, we'll print them out and gather them into a binder like the ones the President receives every day from experts and advisors. If you participate, your idea could be included in the Citizen's Briefing Book to be delivered to President Obama.
Visit the Citizen's Briefing Book now and share your ideas:
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For those who are thinking about checking out the Change.gov site, you have to sign up before you can vote something up. Its painless and is very fast.
Charter Member, ACWV
US Navy, 1973 to 1978
"Dedicated to the Cause"
Glen
UNDIQUE VENIMUS
Glen
At last count we have at least 50 members, looks like we blew it on this one. Your right there should be a better way to alert the membership than the forum.
Jon
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I just went on ABC's website and clicked on their "comments & suggestions" section. I then clicked on "suggestions for new content" and sent an email suggesting they do a story on Cold War Veterans and the fact that these vets have not been recognized with an official service medal. I mentioned that it's a perfect time to do a special news piece on the Cold War since this year will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
So what do you say? Let's start bombarding as many national media outlets as possible and get some P.R. for our cause. The more this issue is put in the national news the harder it will be for Congress and President Obama to ignore us.
ALERT!!!!! ALERT!!!!! ALERT!!!!!
A new round of questions are up on the White House WEB site. You will have to sign in to Vote.
Go to the search line and enter Cold War. There are four question that will come up. One asked if
Obama should award an cold war medals. It has like 12 for and 10 against. I think they are addressing these
question starting tomorrow. Everybody needs to vote today to get the for total up!!!!!!!!!!!
Denton Aylor
http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/
Sign is quick and painless.
My vote makes it 19 for and 17 against.
I would encourage all ACWV members and guests of this forum to go there and vote your mind. The more votes the more likely he is to approve it.
If anybody gets time feel free to use additional emails to create multiple accounts so you can vote more than once. I have three emails and you guessed it...I voted three times (imagine that?). Once I get home my kids will be using their emails to create an account and vote.
So folks...lets get busy and get the vote out. Vote early and vote often!!!!
John
Ok Everyone, here are the three questions everyone needs to vote aye on! I posted the first one. everyone find a way to get more people to make an account and register and vote! Tomorrow is it! Go to the link above and hit veterans in the left navigation, then enter "COLD WAR" into the search and it will take you these three questions right off. Go get'em. Scott "On 10-18-06, you said: "I agree that the Cold War Victory medal would be an appropriate honor." On 1-8-08. Obama for America: "As president, he would sign legislation creating a cold war medal." Will you create the Medal by Executive Order?" |
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(Message edited by SACWARRIOR On 03/25/2009 13:05)
Let's keep the votes coming...we have less than a day to get as many votes as possible! If you have multiple email accounts please take the time to vote again.
Jon
Numbers could have been higher but a win is a win.