Eagle Forum of Sacramento

Las Vegas Police Dept. Labels Minutemen “Subversive” – Call Now To Ask They Remove This Designation: 1-702-828-3394

ALERT: Take a look at this line from the Las Vegas Police Department’s 16-page job application and background check form:

57. Have you, your spouse, any members of your family, or any members of your spouse’s family ever been associated with gangs or subversive groups (Minutemen, Aryan Brotherhood, etc.)

YES / NO — IF YES, EXPLAIN IN SEPARATE STATEMENT.

Did you get that? The Las Vegas PD has labeled the Minutemen — the pro-law enforcement American patriots who are willing to do the job on our borders that the Federal government has refused to do — as a hate group on their employment application!

If this is allowed to go unchallenged, it sets a dangerous precedent across America. Other law enforcement agencies in the country will do the same thing if we don’t FIGHT to get this removed.

Don’t let the pro-illegal alien groups win, even at a local level!

TAKE ACTION: It’s well known that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center sends to all law enforcement agencies their list of hate groups. Most likely, the LVPD received this list, and incorporated into their employment application, without checking it out themselves.

This is the kind of unwarranted designationthat WE have to challenge and STOP. Call the Las Vegas Public Information Office NOW, and ask them how they reached this designation, AND ask them to REMOVE the designation immediately:

1-702-828-3394

Sincerely,

William Greene, President
RightMarch.com

By Robert Knight | November 15, 2007 – 11:42 ET
When California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills on Oct. 12 that essentially turn the state’s public schools over to homosexual and transgender activists, there was virtually no media coverage outside California. There still isn’t.

Beginning in January 2008, California public schools must teach children as young as 3 to 5 years old that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle and that kids can choose their “gender.” This means banning the terms “husband” and “wife” for the more progressively inclusive term “partner.” “Moms” and “dads” will morph into sexually neutral “parents.” Textbooks will be rewritten to blot out any reminder of married-couple-led families as a social norm. Gender-confused kids will get to use the restrooms of their choice. Any expression of negativity toward deviant sexuality will be punished as “bigotry.” The coming changes are so radical that they produce gasps or professions of disbelief from people who hear about it from sources outside the mainstream media.

Bruce Shortt, an advocate of private schooling who writes a periodic report called “the Continuing Collapse” about problems in government schools, provides this analysis:

So far, the media have maintained a near total news blackout on this development.

A recent article [at Medill Reports online] on homosexual gains in the schools reflects how the advocates of legislation to mainstream deviant lifestyles plan to respond to queries from naive or fellow travelling reporters:

With the October signing of Senate Bill 777, California is the most recent state to have seen a battle between the two sides. Its sponsor, state Rep. Sheila Kuehl of Los Angeles, said the bill did little more than make language in the education code consistent with language in the state’s other anti-discrimination laws. Discrimination based on sexual identity, she said, had been illegal in California for eight years.

So, the official story line is that SB 777 just makes technical changes that bring the Education Code into conformity with other laws that have been on the books for a long time. In other words, “nothing to see here folks, just move along.”

Of course, Kuehl is right in a sense. After all, we could pass legislation requiring Jack Daniel’s to be served in school cafeterias, and then claim that we are just making the Education Code consistent with other laws that have been on the books for years (the Volkstead Amendment was repealed over 70 years ago, and drinking alcohol is legal in California).

Leaving aside the question of any prior California legislation regarding deviant lifestyles and ADULTS, the relevant question is whether Zelda’s “advanced thoughts” on this subject should be inflicted on children. The reporter, as you will note, didn’t really get to this, and she entirely missed the importance of California’s brave new definition of “gender.”

Subject: Sears and the Military
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> Subject: Sears – Christmas shopping has already started
> I know I needed this reminder since Sears isn’t always my first choice. Amazing when you think of how long the war has lasted and they haven’t withdrawn from their commitment. Could we each buy at least one
> thing at Sears this year?
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> How does Sears treat its employees who are called up for military duty?
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> By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up.
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> Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and
> maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years.
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> I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should berecognized for its contribution. I suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement it well deserves.
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> Pass it on.
>
> Decided to check this before I sent it forward. So I sent the following e-mail to the Sears Customer Service Department:
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> I received this e-mail and I would like to know if it is true. If it is, the Internet may have just become one very good source of advertisement for your company. I know I would go out of my way to buy products from Sears
> instead of another store for a like item, even if it’s cheaper at that store.
>
> This is their answer to my e-mail:
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> Dear Customer:
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> Thank you for contacting Sears.The information is factual. We appreciate your positive feedback.
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> Sears regards service to our country as one of greatest sacrifices our young men and women can make. We are happy to do our part to lessen the burden they bear at this time.
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> Bill Thorn
> Sears Customer Care
> webcenter@sears.com
> 1-800-349-4358
>
> Please pass this on to all your friends. Sears needs to be
> recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our military!!!
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> It’s Verified ! By Snopes.com at:
> http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp
> /politics/military/sears.asp> (shows the entire
> article)

by Georgiana Preskar
Finishing my Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving is always a challenge, but it is not an option. In order for me to enjoy the month of December, I buy gifts early and have fun doing it. This year I decided to return to yesteryear when most people greeted or left each other with the words “Have a Blessed Thanksgiving.”
What I did not realize is that the word “blessed” is now on the list of forbidden words, in other words politically incorrect. After shopping for 7 hours in Macy’s, there was every imaginable reaction to my using this word. The people I conversed with in line and the sales clerks who helped me, or checked me out at the desk had various reactions to my use of the “blessed” phrase: shock, withdrawal, silence, and every once in awhile, a person would wish me a blessed Thanksgiving also.
Just as Merry Christmas is politically incorrect, so now is a Blessed Thanksgiving. As I left the parking lot, I heard the attendant who collected my money respond to me with “I’ll try very hard not to have a blessed Thanksgiving.” It did not surprise me for I have worked 4 years to educate the public as to the dangers of enforced diversity.
The findings on this day of shopping only reminded me of what I knew already. America is in a national crisis. A social narcotic, “diversity addiction,” has taken over the USA. Whether people are in school, the workplace, church, or home, diversity injections plunge deeply into them from every direction. Tolerance forces upon us unnatural diversity, disrupts human nature, and upsets the fundamental ideal of the equality of “man,” over the equality of “ideas.”
All men are created equal. Ideas, values, morals, ethics, lifestyles, and religions are not equal; diversity addicts “flip-flop” this equation giving all worldviews equal status. If you express “closely held personal beliefs” that are contrary, or not an asset, to the diversity group, you are no longer treated as an equal. Instead, you may be rebuked, harassed, bullied, ostracized, labeled, and perhaps lose your job, or be accused of a hate incident, or hate crime.
My new book Diversity Addiction: The Cause And The Cure provides the reader with a simple, clear explanation of the doctrines and methodologies used in creating diversity addicts and diversity enforcement programs. It clarifies the Judeo-Christian principles (The American Way) that formed this nation and their influence on our individual rights secured by the Constitution. America’s recovery from “diversity addiction” is dependant upon reversing “flip-flopped” equality, and returning it to its rightful owner, man.
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving and I might add a very Merry Christmas!

Georgiana Preskar
Director Eagle Forum of Sacramento

If readers wish to purchase this book to support its ratings, Georgiana would appreciate you ordering it at Amazon.com on December 3rd. Consider giving it as a Christmas gift and/or refer others to www.diversityaddiction.com
* If copy is dated August, it is the wrong copy. The August version was recalled for release to Amazon without permission of the Author. Amazon will pay shipping and send the correct version if this should happen by accident to you. You may also order it at www.authorhouse.com and you will receive the appropriate copy.

November 7, 2007

Lodi Unified School District
Board Members
Superintendent William Huyett
James Areida Education Support Center
1305 E. Vine Street
Lodi, CA 95240

Re: Teacher Training Day, October 22, 2007

Dear Board Members and Superintendent Huyett:

Eagle Forum of Sacramento stands for the political, social and economic principles upon which our Nation is founded. We attempt to educate and inform citizens of issues that many times will affect the most influential unit of our society, the traditional family.

I have recently corresponded with you regarding the teacher training day you had on October 22, 2007. Some teachers in the Lodi Unified School District were concerned about the racial content of the programs and DVDs that you chose to introduce. In spite of my correspondence, LUSD continued with the programs.

If each of you stays current with news and media, you will know that the University of Delaware recently instituted a program by Dr. Shakti Butler, the same person that provided you with the “Making Whiteness Visible” video that you introduced in Lodi. Amid much public outcry and outrage, the University of Delaware immediately ceased the program. I find it very alarming that LUSD ignored public and employee alarm and instead went forward with this program.

Dr. Butler’s definitions include: “A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality”; “REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege”; and “A NON-RACIST: A non term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism….” (Emphases added.)

The Lodi Unified School District seems terrifyingly unaware that a state and federal sponsored public education institution in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience—the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech. As the Supreme Court declared in the landmark case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943): “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” The Court concluded that “the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution” was precisely to protect “from all official control” the domain that was “the sphere of intellect and spirit.” The LUSD’s teacher training education program is an unconscionable and unconstitutional incursion into the private conscience of teachers whose greatest offense is simply choosing the LUSD as a place of employment.

When you have a black principal allowed to get up and rant about how she wakes up knowing she is black and does not have white privilege, and support a video talking about how whites are racists that whites think they are better than blacks, you are promoting racism. When this same black principal makes over $75,000 a year, and drives an expensive luxury sports car, and is talking to white teachers about how she is oppressed because she is black, you are promoting racism. When these same teachers are told that they cannot critique the comments made this day, you are engaging in denial of freedom of speech, and the right to freedom of conscience.

When you allow Kino Carson to go into children’s classrooms and tell them that the Statue of Liberty is a black woman, you are promoting racism. When you bring in “Cycle of Inquiry” where teachers are told to choose low-performing students and the only criteria is that at least one must be black, you are promoting racism and racial profiling. When Odie Douglas and Barbara Johnson are planning to go around talking with various teachers and at meetings, although the content of their speech is not yet known, Eagle Forum of Sacramento concerned that it will be promoting racism.

The legal problems posed by programs such as these are abundant and cut to the core of the most essential rights of a free people. Possible claims include violations of the right to privacy as well as federal and state constitutional claims for having and enforcing an unconstitutional speech code, and for violations of the right to freedom of conscience.

To be clear, however, Eagle Forum of Sacramento is not a litigation organization, and our objection to programs such as these is far more than legalistic. What makes programs like this so offensive is their brazen disregard for autonomy, dignity, and individual conscience, and the sheer contempt it displays for all of the District’s teachers.

As aggressive as organizations like Eagle Forum may seem, at the heart of all concepts relating to freedom of the mind is a recognition of our own limitations—like us, those in power are neither omniscient nor omnipotent, and therefore have no right to dictate to others what their deepest personal beliefs must be. Concerns for free speech and freedom of conscience are rooted in the wisdom of humility and restraint. The teachers’ training day that you had on October 22, which presumes to show teachers the specific ideological assumptions they need in order to be better people, crosses the boundary from education into unconscionably arrogant, invasive, and immoral thought reform. We can conceive of no way in which teacher training programs such as this can be maintained consistent with the ideals of a free society.

We ask for nothing less than the immediate and total dismantling of the all such programs that promote racism and white privilege theory within the District.

Very truly yours,

TERI LAWRENCE
Education Director, Eagle Forum of Sacramento

Our friends at the American Land Rights Association have alerted us that Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has introduced two bills that, combined, could be used to create a vast border opening to Mexico, providing a virtual freeway for illegals and drug smugglers into the United States. H.R. 3287, the “Wilderness Bill,” proposes the Tumacacori Highland Wilderness as the new Forest Service Wilderness Area in Arizona on the border with Mexico. It is contiguous with the small, old, Pajarito Wilderness Area that is directly on the border and links the Pajarito Wilderness Area with Interstate 19 and the Interior of the country.

It would open a huge clear path for illegals and drug running while limiting the ability of law enforcement to intercede. It is the Wilderness border bill on a fast track for illegal immigration!

Illegal immigrants who leave ribbons of garbage along their well-defined trails have already trashed the most pristine parts of the Proposed Wilderness Area. The Forest Service has already lost control of illegal immigration from Mexico, but it will worsen if the Wilderness bill is passed.

HR 2593, the “Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007,” creates a new Forest Service Wilderness Area in Arizona on the border with Mexico, exactly where a major illegal immigration traffic area and drug smuggling pathway already exists. This bill is full of misleading words to disguise the true intent and would shackle the hands of the Border Control on Federal lands.

These two bills together create a freeway for illegal immigration and drug smuggling that will be protected while the Border Patrol is handcuffed. By passing these two bills, Congress would create a massive area open to illegals and vastly strangle the ability of law enforcement and the Border Patrol to fight drug importation and illegal immigration.

These bills are scheduled to be debated in committee THIS TUESDAY! Pro-illegal alien Congressmen will be able to railroad this bill through quickly… UNLESS WE STOP THEM!

TAKE ACTION: H.R. 3287, the proposed Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness Area, would open wide an existing clear path through the Coronado National Forest for illegals and drug running, while limiting the ability of law enforcement to intercede. H.R. 2593, the “Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007,” would greatly handicap law enforcement and the Border Patrol in the proposed Wilderness Area and all Federal lands all along the border. It doesn’t allow the Border Patrol to even operate on Federal lands anywhere, but is focused on a 150-mile stretch of border in just Arizona alone. H.R. 2593 is full of misleading words to throw the reader off as to its true intent. It even blocks the building of a fence along the border! Law enforcement will be affected severely.

Roads crisscross the Tumacacori area and the previous attempt to have it classified as “Wilderness” in 1984 was rejected on the basis that it was not a roadless area. A vast historic network of roads still exists with a huge increase in population of Arizona. The roads receive much greater use now than when the previous effort was made to classify the area as “wilderness”. The current effort to create a Wilderness Area endeavors to circumvent the “roadless” requirement by “cherry stemming” the Wilderness Area into multiple strips of Wilderness between existing roads. The resulting map of the “Wilderness Area” is ridiculous: a large number of fingers of Wilderness between roads.

The H.R. 3287 Wilderness border bill is a fast track for illegal immigration. Combined with the proposed H.R. 2593, these bills could be used to create a virtual freeway for illegals and drug smugglers as a fast track into the United States, in an area exactly where a major illegal immigration traffic area and drug smuggling pathway already exists. We need to let every Member of Congress know we OPPOSE these bills — but we have to move FAST!

To make YOUR voice hear LOUD AND CLEAR, we’ve set up our website so that you can send “blast faxes” to EVERY SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR in Washington, D.C.! These Congressmen need to hear from us NOW, before they’re able to sneak their legislation past an unsuspecting American public!

Send YOUR blast faxes to ALL 535 of these Congressman NOW, demanding that they oppose H.R. 3287, the new Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness Bill, and its companion bill H.R. 2593, the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act:

http://news.capoliticalnewsalerts.com/c.asp?lTUCFXVzVGojW2teE0xygQd1q35Mrkfzlr/CFrI1uJjQ

Sincerely,

William Greene, President
RightMarch.com

Tomorrow is Veterans Day. It is a day to recognize and celebrate the sacrifices that your vets have done for you so that we can all live in the greatest country that has ever graced God’s Green Earth.

To me it is difficult to do this without taking into consideration those who have died or been wounded in the act of keeping us all safe. I realize that Memorial Day is set aside for that purpose but it is hard to compartmentalize them.

Recently I was involved in a discussion with a few other guys. One of them knows me pretty well, most of the others were acquaintances and one I had never met. We were talking about a variety of topics and subjects and, after a few adult beverages,(only Ice Tea for me) the chap I did not know asked me if I thought we should still be in Iraq.

I responded “No, I do not think so.”

My acquaintances looked at me with bewildered looks but my good friend knew me better. The questioner then furthered that surely I would agree that we went into Iraq under false pretenses and that right now the blood of all the soldiers were the result of Bush’s failed Iraqi policy.

I kept my composure as I answered that I disagreed with those statements as well. He now had the quizzical look as he demanded how I could say that we should not be fighting a war in Iraq but did not think that we went there under false pretenses and that the war was a failure.

His prejudice exposed, I answered him that I did not say that we should never should have fought in Iraq. I corrected him by reminding him that he asked if “we should still be in Iraq.”

He asked: “what is the difference?”

I said that there is a huge difference. The reasons why we went to Iraq, at this point, are inconsequential. (I will go on the record at this point to state that given the information we now have coupled with the duplicity of the Joe Wilsons and Richard Clarkes of the world, we did the right thing.) But to clarify the confusion of the initial statements, I said that we should not still be in Iraq as we should have won this sometime ago.

Of course there was some disagreement on his part. I averred that while we are fighting an unconventional war in the enemies back yard, we have the resources, technology, manpower, firepower and so forth, all of which are more than adequate to defeat this or any enemy.

He asked that even if I was correct then why are we still there.

I told him to take a look at the leadership in Congress. Look at all the resolutions, votes, threats, rhetoric, selling out of my Country and more by the Doves in Congress. At virtually every step of the way Congress has hamstrung the war effort. They have made ridiculous demands, added irrelevant riders to troop funding bills and have ridiculed the president. By now, not only was my fiend in agreement with me but so were the others at the table.

He made a weak attempt to deflect the issue, bring up non-sequitors and shift blame but I was resolute in my conviction. I asked him if he loved America. Needless to say he looked hurt and mad for me to question his patriotism. I then asked if we had the power and technology to defeat any enemy. He tried to equivocate the statement but in the end, reluctantly, he admitted that there was no reason why we could not tactically win the war. He countered by bring the political aspects of the Iraqis into the equation but I asked why did he think that was critical at this juncture. The response that it is their country and they should have the right to determine their destiny and so forth were correct. I then advised that had we gone in with overwhelming force and eradicated not only the existing problem but prevent the ones we are now facing that this war would have been over some time ago.

He tried to deny this by stating that he was correct in his allegation that it was a failed policy by the president and all that blood ought to be on his and Cheney’s hands. (The anti-war crowd can not mention the war without mentioning Cheney.) I reiterated that no, the President made a very difficult decision and that he will live with his decision but it is the continued stonewalling by the Doves that are responsible for the vast majority of deaths, both of our brave service people as well as the innocent Iraqi civilians.

I think he came to Jesus at that point as he clearly looked hurt and convicted. The rest of the discussion is not germane to this editorial.

My friends, war, as distasteful as it is, is a way of life. It is a necessity when attacked and sometimes required as pre-emption to stave off a greater loss. Men have taken up arms since there were arms to take up and will do so as long as there are disagreements between peoples.

Our country was born as a result of war and many generations of us have served our country in one way or another since then, some reluctantly others voluntarily. We do not have a “warrior class” as did some countries of old but we have a long and rich tradition of service. Many times that tradition exists in families where it is expected that each generation will serve as did the previous ones. Regardless of the hows and whys of the reasons that one serves the simple fact remains that they did.

For this, they are due all Americans gratitude and respect.

When I started out, I said that it is difficult for me to think of Veterans Day without remembering those who have given the supreme sacrifice. I have a hard time understanding how someone can honor the vet without being of the same mindset. I have a harder time trying to comprehend how someone could not honor the vet and moreso, the dead.

I am involved in a few civic and fraternal organizations. In those capacities I find myself attending wake services for members who have passed. Even in the sadness there is always a certain tinge of pride I feel when I see the tri-fold flag in the coffin, another one of America’s great have fallen. Sadder is attending a funeral when the coffin is flag-draped as that generally means the man or woman perished in the line of duty. This demands even greater respect.

Back in July, a friend approached me and advised me that his nephew was KIA in Iraq. He was in the 1st Calvary, 2-12. His death, murder really, came as a result of an IED.

Tommy does not talk much and he really did not want to talk at this time. He did not let on too much as to the arrangements for the wake and funeral but he did tell me where his 23 year-old nephew, Ray, was to be laid out.

That Sunday I put on a suit and drove to the funeral home. I was surprised to see a few police cars parked in the lot and just outside of the premises. I walked in the room and saw Tommy and his family. We talked for a bit, about Ray and things in general. I could not help but notice in the room, other than the normal coterie of friends and family were a dozen or so other people who kept mostly to themselves. They were closer in age to me than Ray, perhaps not all were as well dressed others and maybe some of them had long hair, in some cases they may have even looked like bikers, but very respectful.

A simple look in their eyes and you knew who they were and why they were there.

About this time a television came to life and a montage of Ray’s life was played. You saw this fallen hero as a baby, growing up, playing sports, skiing and all the things that most people do and that we all take for granted. The years flicked by until the more recent. There were pictures of Ray in boot, in his blues with the Calvary hat, in his BDU’s, in his rack with his stuffed bear and so forth. A good-looking, strapping lad if there ever was one. A poster boy for America.

I knelt at the coffin to offer my meager prayers. I thought to myself that the mortician had done an excellent job. Even from inches away you would never know that his legs were gone. Or that the glove on his right side was not covering a hand and that the right sleeve of his jacket was filled with something other than his arm. I could only hope that his death came immediately having had half of his body being blown off. I leaned later that he hung on for probably way too long considering his injuries.

I finished my prayers, stood and saluted this man, boy, really, but yes a real man. I spoke to his family again, offering my prayers and condolences but they could never make a dent in their pain nor add to their pride. For they knew that Ray died doing what he wanted to do, defending his and our country.

As I was walking out I passed by the group of twelve who had taken up their station by the door. I nodded to them as I started to pass. One stopped me and asked my why I saluted. I knew he knew the answer I would give: “because that is what we do.” He offered a nod. I asked him why they were all here, and responded pretty much the same thing, but in a bit greater detail. We exchanged “welcome homes” and I left.

Ray was buried on the day that he was scheduled to be home on leave for his sister’s birthday.

The following day, there was an obituary for him as well as a half-page story about his life and death in the paper. The next day I asked Tommy how he was doing and about the family. I got the expected answer that he and everyone else were fine. Not trying to pry but I asked why the obituary was placed after the funeral. And he stopped and looked at me, with pain in his eyes for the first time.

“Didn’t you see the police cars outside of the funeral home?” he asked. I told him that I did. He explained that the family was advised that there might be a protest by a group of people that go to slain solders funerals to protest the war and so forth and that it was best not to advertise the wake and funeral. Then he paused and looked me straight in the eye. He said something to the effect that he knew nothing would happen and I knew that he was referring to the ad hoc welcoming committee at the funeral home. Yup, he was right.

So, when someone asks me if we should still be fighting in Iraq, I am more than happy to tell them no and why. Had the powers that be had a set and were not too busy pandering to their special interests, if they were not so concerned by trying to look like peacemakers instead of the cowards that they are, if they were not consumed by world opinion instead of the safety and security of their constituents, then perhaps Ray would be rotating home soon and coaching the youngsters that he taught hockey, or preparing for his FDNY exam instead of having been buried with full military honors at the tender age of 23.

I am sure that this same story can be and has been repeated a few thousand times too many by now.

I am sorry to have to be such a downer but had the powers that be, Ray may not have died and he would have had the opportunity to be a living vet. We simply can never repay the sacrifices made by all; vets, other service people, the wounded and the dead.

So, if you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading this in America, thank a vet.