DOC MELSON

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MISS - ILL

8/26/02

Rezulin Recall

8/24/02

Caesar: AN INTERESTING THOUGHT

Approaching Peak Season to Search for A Veteran

8/23/02

Listing of Veteran and Military Discussion Forums

8/17/02

To Veterans who were denied employment because of your DD-214 codes

8/15/02

9/11 LIGHTS ON ON VEHICLES, WEAR RED WHITE AND BLUE FLY FLAG

8/14/02

Veterans to walk from Alabama to Wash DC, 1 Sep 2002 to ?Nov 11

8/12/02

To request a form SF-180

8/11/02

The Vietnam Cross of Gallantry

8/9/02

Idaho proves veterans have no rights! Idaho expulsion of veteran from state veteran home!

8/6/02

For American Veterans nearing retirement age

8/2/02

Senator Kerry Remarks and Letter to the President

7/29/02

Exposure to Agent Orange Outside of Vietnam

7/25/02

Parade Magazine: Bush & Military Retirees

6/28/02

Online Petition

1/14/02

COMPENSATION RATES - 2002

10/19/01

Doc, Mike Sperling advised me that Tommy Dorris died at 0300 today, heart attack. I will keep you posted! 19 Oct2001

And Shakespeare Said Today: I will instruct my sorrows to be
proud, for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. - King John

DETAILS

10/11/01

VA Awards $10.5 Million in Homeless Assistance Grants Memorial Honoring Disabled Veterans Receives Final Site

10/08/01

Senator Snowe Introduces Hepatitis C Legislation: S. 457

10/04/01

Veterans say they're not getting the promised benefits

10/02/01

Your Emergency Supply Kit/ A checklist from FEMA

9/30/01

Armed Citizens the Best Defense Against Terrorists

9/27/01

VA's "Duty To Assist"

9/5/01

Hiroshima bomber to be restored for new Smithsonian

8/28/01

All the Fax numbers for all senators

8/26/01

Illegal vaccine link to Gulf War Syndrome

8/23/01

VA Benefits Sales Under Fire Dog Tags Found In Viet Nam/ This site may be of help

POW/MIA Flag needs our help

Proposed education center at Vietnam Wall aims to skirt controversy of war, but critics denounce idea

8/19/01

Friendly Fire Victims now eligible for the Purple Heart Medal

8/13/01

To obtain Unit Diaries, OP's sheets or other hard to find items

8/9/01

Boot the UN out of America

8/7/01

US set to ease benefit rules for 'atomic' veterans Vets Urged to Get Radiation Care

Merger With Election Day Would Diminish Veterans Day

8/4/01

benefits and claims regulations

8/3/01

New List of Carcinogens May Include Viruses

8/2/01

VETERANS BENEFITS ACT OF 2001

7/30/01

New law revives veteran's old claim VA now must help

7/29/01

417,000 Intentionally Exposed To Atomic Bomb Tests

7/28/01

The HHS, NIH and CDC could easily solve the puzzling malaise of CFS POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2001

7/27/01

Veterans' records agency swamped with requests for data

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When the Lord was creating Vietnam veterans, He was into His 6th day of overtime when an angel appeared.

"You're certainly doing a lot of fiddling around on this one. " And God said, "Have you seen the specs on this order? A Nam vet has to be able to run 5 miles through the bush with a full pack on, endure with barely any sleep for days, enter tunnels his higher ups wouldn't consider doing, and keep his weapons clean and operable. He has to be able to sit in his hole all night during an attack, hold his buddies as they die, walk point in unfamiliar territory known to be VC infested, and somehow keep his senses alert for danger. He has to be in top physical condition existing on c-rats and very little rest. And he has to have 6 pairs of hands." The angel shook his head slowly and said, "6 pair of hands....no way."

The Lord say's "It's not the hands that are causing me problems.... It's the 3 pair of eyes a Nam vet has to have." "That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. The Lord nodded. "One pair that sees through elephant grass, another pair here in the side of his head for his buddies, another pair here in front that can look reassuringly at his bleeding, fellow soldier and say, "You'll make it".......when he knows he won't.

"I can't," said the Lord. "I already have a model that can carry a wounded soldier 1,000 yards during a fire fight, calm the fears of the latest FNG, and feed a family of 4 on a grunt's paycheck."

The angel walked around the model and said, "Can it think?" "You bet," said the Lord. "It can quote much of the UCMJ, recite all his general orders, and engage in a search and destroy mission in less time than it takes for his fellow Americans back home to discuss the morality of the War, and still keep his sense of humor." "This Nam vet also has phenomenal personal control. He can deal with ambushes from hell, comfort a fallen soldier's family, and then read in his hometown paper how Nam vets are baby killers, psychos, addicts, killers of innocent civilians."

"He will also endure being vilified and spit on when he returns home, rejected and crucified by the very ones he fought for." Finally, the angel slowly ran his finger across the vet's cheek, and said, "There's a leak...I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model." "That's not a leak", said the Lord. "That's a tear."

"It's for bottled up emotions, for holding fallen soldiers as they die, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, for the terror of living with PTSD for decades after the war, alone with it's demons with no one to care or help."

The lord looked very somber, as if seeing down eternity's distant shores.. "I didn't put it there," he said.