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REPORT FROM - Bill Motto - V.F.W. POST 5888 Part I

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REPORT FROM
*VFW - "Bill Motto" - POST 5888
Bill Motto VFW Post 5888
Bill Motto was a combat medic in Vietnam. VFW Post 5888 is in Santa Cruz, CA. Consists mostly of Vietnam Veterans. It is the only Veterans of Foreign Wars Post whose members believe in and exercise left wing "Wage Peace" politics.
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    In The Jaws Of History 
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  Part I  
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ONLY HISTORY COULD HELP US

Narrated, anthologised and authored

by *K. B. Robertson (*KBR) aka 'Ben' 

 Copyright 1980 thru 2005

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The Maltese Cross: symbol the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of America

(Chartered by Congress)

Excerpt from the preamble to the United States Constitution: 

 " ..to Insure Domestic Tranquility... To Protect <*in this specific case: non-violently> the *Constitution of the United States <*The Guardian Goddess: Columbia >, from all Her Enemies, Whomsoever : be they Foreign or Domestic."   

More will be said of the Cross of Malta near the close of this introduction.   May it suffice for the moment to clarify that this frequently unrecognized and misunderstood symbol - and a number of variations of it (Re: Carl Jung & Symbology) - is beyond the age of a millennium, while it was adopted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States in 1899.  

Noteworthy that the majority of recently polled adult American Citizens alternately do not know the meaning of the symbol of the Maltese Cross. Whereas, a minority of those who do, frequently associate it with the popular icon of a 'moving van & trucking company', or the Fascist Reich of W. W. II.

   About 4% of polled persons called it the 'surfers cross' and offer no more information of their interpretation of it...

    In more western portions of the United States, the abbreviated initials of 'V.F.W.' are of mis-read as 'U.F.W', and construed as being the abbreviation for 'United Farm Workers'.

   It is unfortunate that the military Veterans of Foreign Wars and their symbol - their very existence as a Congressionally Chartered paramilitary organization is 'confused' as meaning Dictatorship & Facism - the V.F.W. having, by definition, sacrificed more than any other American veterans organization. 

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In late 1984; well into 1985, VFW POST 5888, stationed in the downtown Memorial Bldg. of Santa Cruz, California, was brought to international attention as the first  Congressionally Chartered VFW post (in a century of that   organization's existence) to diametrically oppose the standing policy of any United States President.

11.11.’84 SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL: "V.F.W. Post Is Forum For Vietnam Vets."

       1.11.’85 - COMMON SENSE News:   "1st  Anniversary Issue.

                                      "In Support of Post 5888".

                            1.14.’85 - San Jose MERCURY News: 

               "Santa Cruz Post's Decree Defys VFW Bylaws".

    1.15.’85 S.C. SENTINEL - "Publicity Has Maverick Post On Thin Ice."

    1.15.’85 L.A. TIMES HERALD - "Chapter Defies VFW, Raps U.S. Latin Policy."

    1.15.’85 San Francisco CHRONICLE: "Santa Cruz VFW Post Raps U.S. Policy."

    1.15.’85 San Jose MERCURY: "VFW Chapter Applauded."

    1.16.’85 S.C. SENTINEL: "Remodeling of Vets Hall Has Some Vets Up In Arms."

    1.17. ‘85: "VFW Post Prepares To Be Drummed Out."

    1.17.’85: S.J. MERCURY: "Lessons From Vietnam."

    1.17.’85: S.C. NEWS: "Local VFW Post Makes Waves."

    1.23.’85: S.C. SENTINEL: "Two Years After Death, Veteran (Bill  Motto) Wins Fight."

    1.23.’85: S.J. MERCURY: "Dead SC Vet’s Mother To Get V.A. Benefits."

    (*Mrs. Motto donated her son's $2,400.00 monthly PTSD compensation to Veteran’s Charity.)

    1.24.’85: S.C. GOOD TIMES: "VFW Post Files Suit"

    2.14.'85: CITY ON A HILL: UCSC: "VFW Post 5888: Seeking A Separate Peace."

    2.14:’85: S.C. EXPRESS: "What Is American?".

    2.14.’85: EXPRESS: "Beyond Limits of Dissent: How Local Post 5888 Fell From Grace w' ‘VFW’ (*National HdQtrs)":

    2.14:’85: GOOD TIMES: "Local VFW Won’t Back Down on Nicaragua."

    2.15:’85: Monterey TRIBUNE: (Letters) "The Quinn Column & The VFW."

    2.21:’85: S.C. SENTINEL: "Maverick VFW Post In Limbo When National Cmdr. Forced To *Cancel (*Suspend Charter)."

    2.22.’85: S.J. MERCURY: "VFW Post Ignores Suspension."

    2.28.’85: GOOD TIMES: "VFW Chief to Meet w’ Head of Local Post: Fate of S.C. Group May Hang in Balance."

    3.5.‘85: S.J. MERCURY: "Vets Stick to Their Guns: VFW Post Defys Gag On Criticism of U.S. Policy."

    3.7.‘85: S.C. NEWS: "Local VFW Stands Firm."

    3.7.‘85: GOOD TIMES: "Local Post Will Sue if Expelled by VFW (*National Headquarters, Wa., D.C., in a hierarchy of local, county, district, state & national plateaus.)."

    3.7.‘85 S.C. NEWS (Letters): "Vet Speaks Out."

    3.16.3'85: S.F. CHRONICLE: "Messages To Nicaragua. Rebel VFW Post May Lose Charter."

    3.17.’85: S.C. SENTINEL:  "Vets Say They’ll Fight To Stay In National VFW."

    3.17.’85: S.J. MERCURY: "V.F.W. Says ‘March’ - This Post Won’t. Gains New Popularity."

    3.18.’85: S.J. MERCURY:  "Dissenters Drummed Out (*Charter terminated)".

    3.18.’85: S.C SENTINEL: "Maverick Post Ousted By VFW (*National)".

    3.19.’85: S.C.. SENTINEL: "Embattled VFW Post Digs In For Fight. We Consider Ourselves Patriots."

    3.19.’85: S.C. SENTINEL:  "Rebel Post 5888 Takes VFW to Court Over Ouster Order". 

    3.19.’85: The Bremerton Washington SUN: "National VFW Kicks Out Maverick Post".

    3.19.’8:San Jose MERCURY: "VFW 5888 Loses Its Charter".

    3.19.’85: S. J. MERCURY (Letters): "VFW Rebels Show Patriotic Courage."

    3.20.’85: S.J. MERCURY: "Rebel Vets of Post 5888"

    3.20.’85: Detroit FREE PRESS: "VFW Post in Fight Over Latin American Policy: Kicked Out."

    3.20.’85: S.J. MERCURY: "Rebel VFW Post Expelled For Central American Stand."

    3.20.’85: The DAILY ITEM, Salisbury, Penn. "VFW National Loses 1st Round w' Maverick Post."

    3.21.’85: Santa Cruz GOOD TIMES:"Vets Out - But Not Down."

    3.21.’85: San Francisco CHRONICLE, Abe Melinkoff Column (critique): "Can Get Out While Getting's Good".

    3.25.’85: Kansas Cith STAR (Letters): "Right To Dissent."

    3.27.’85: Santa Cruz SENTINEL (Opinion): "Paying The Price For Talking Peace."

    4.1.‘85: TIME Magazine: "Mutiny in The VFW Over Central America."

    4.1.‘85: The California VFW VETERAN Magazine (monthly): "Dept. Comments On Post 5888." 

    4.1.‘85:The California VFW VETERAN:  "VFW Commander In Chief Revokes Post 5888's Charter".

    4.2.‘85: San Jose MERCURY (Letters): "VFW  Supports Bad Wars."

    4.4.‘85:'Santa Cruz Express (Letters): "Don't Support Vietnam Vets."

    4.11.’85: Santa Cruz EXPRESS (Letters): "Shades of Morality - Acts of War."

    4.13.’85: S.C. EXPRESS: "McDonald's Army: Country Joe (*Vets Hall) Benefit Talks About Vets."

    4.17.’85: Santa Cruz NEWS: "VFW Post 5888 Gets Some Back-Up (*Country Joe <'& The Fish'> Benefit)". 

    4.17.'85: San Jose MERCURY: "VFW Hearing Moves to Federal Court".

    4.21.'85: S.C. SENTINEL: "VFW Post 5888 Hearing Delayed."

    4.24.’85  The Ohio BEACON : "The Nerve of Those Guys (*pro 5888)".

    4.25.’85: Santa Cruz GOOD TIMES: "Federal Judge Moves Lawsuit Back To Superior Court."

    4.25.’85: S.C. EXPRESS (Letters): "Vets Help End War Too - Moral Mechanics."

    4.25.’85: S.C. EXPRESS: "Vet Trial Comes Home."

    4.29.’85: L.A. HERALD TRIBUNE: "The War Between Post 5888 & The National V.F.W."

    5/1/’85: The MONTHLY PLANET (Letters): "Don't Support Vets."

    5/17/’85: S.C. SENTINEL:  "The VFW, Nicaragua & Post 5888."

    5.20.’85: S.C. SENTINEL:  "Courtroom Battle Set To Begin V.F.W. Case."

    5.21'.85: S.C. SENTINEL: "VFW Dispute May End in Accord."

    5.22.’85: S.C. SENTINEL: "VFW Dispute Runs Into Trouble."

    5.22.’85: San Jose MERCURY: "National VFW & Santa Cruz Post Settle Suit."

    5.23.’85: Santa Cruz NEWS: "VFW Controversy Nears End."

    5.23.’85: Santa Cruz GOOD TIMES: "Agreement?"

    5.23.’85: Santa Cruz SENTINEL: "VFW Bill Motto Post 5888 Returns to Fold."

    5.30'85: Santa Cruz EXPRESS: "Battle Ends For VFW Post 5888 - Cop Out or Compromise?"

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    (Proceeding to later - updated - developments & proliferation)

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    Charter Commencement

    4 December 1983

    By Authority of the:

    Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

    "FORTITUDE & LOYALTY"

    BE IT KNOWN,

    that  the following (*alphabetically listed) Comrades:

    Richard L. Anderson, Richard R. Baird,

    Stephan G. Bare, James Bindi,

    Lee T. Bookout, Arthur D. Carlson

    Russell L. Condry, Harry E. Dean

    Chistopher Dimaio, Jim F. Gagnon

    Sean M. Gallagher, Ruben R. Gomez

    C. Frederick Gray, Aangelo F. Grova

    Troy E. Hagen, Robert S. Hall

              Dennis R. Heekin, Terrance J. Larson   

        Robert A. Lissner,    C. J. Mattews (sic)

  •               Timothy McCormick, Daniel M. McClellan
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  •                      Carlos C. Mello, Robert. S. Merrell

                                Ronald D. Metcalf, John E. Pascoe

                            Raymond K. Peterson,  Kent (B.) Robertson

    Lloyd W. Rodoni, Donald Schoennauer

    Robert E. Sherbourne, Robert E. L. Shippen

    Clifford A. Spooner, John P. Sugbrue

    Clarence Taubenheim, Peter C. Tessitore

    Peter H. Thompson, Thomas D. Tripp

    Jeff W. VanBeek, Duane E. Walker

    William S. Watkins, Gordon L. Watts

    Virginia E. Watts, George A. Work

    (Forty six Charter Members; twenty five of whom were newly recruited VFW Members. A.J. 'Charles' Liteky would join VFW 5888's ranks, along with many others, at a later time):

  • ...being citizens and having served honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States of America outside its continental limits in foreign wars, insurrections or expeditions entitling them to the Award of a recognized campaign or service medal (*In addition to the Medallion of the - V.F.W. - Veterans of Foreign War of the United States, aka: The Cross of Malta, Maltese Cross, aka, Croix de Guerre ), are hereby authorized to organize and are constituted a Post in Santa Cruz, California to be known as
  •   Bill Motto  Post No. 5888
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          Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

      In Witness Whereof, we have hereto set our hands and the official seal of the (Congressionally chartered) association

      this 4th day of December 1983

      C.G. Olsen: Commander In Chief

      Washington, D.C.

      Adjutant General

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      A partial list of Past Commanders in approximate order of their annual terms of office, follows:

      Ray Peterssen, Richard Anderson, Rick Moran, Steve Bare, Bill Watkins, Steve Brookes, Ruben Gomez, Howard George, Gordon Smith, Harry Meserve, Eugene Prask, Ruben Gomez, Steve Brookes, Bob Young, Bob Budda, Dennis Marawski, Lee Bookout, Larry Wilson, Lee Bookout.

         The charter commences in December '83 and there are names missing here. Elections are annual; for a one year term of office.
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THE IRONY OF THE IRON CROSS

A large portion of polled persons associate the symbol of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (V.F.W.) of the United States, with 'the Fascist-Nazi Iron Cross and/or swastika'. The irony here being, of course, that the the so called 'Iron Cross' of Fascist Germay symbolized the exact opposite of the 'Maltese Cross', or, 'Cross of Malta' as a collectively allied European and American  symbol of combative warfare and military combat zones or expeditions, far preceding the foreboding Nazi icon it seems most recently remembered as and associated with.  

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(May it be kept in mind that in this era, although the VFW ranks were - and still are - dwindling , there are  10,000 posts in the United States, worth an estimated thirty billion dollars - with a corroborately influential - formerly two million, now approximately one million -  Memberships (amounting to a formidable 'political bloc') to be won over as votes for any major political office, on a national scale and minor political offices on whatever more localized, State, District, County and Municipal political talleys. Notably, many individuals holding public office, as well as law enforcement officers and judiciary officials are also VFW members, and/or former military men and women - and or partisans -  who are fully aware of unjust social stigmas, too often projected upon and borne by U.S. and Allied veterans of all ranks, duties and National Ensigns.)
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VFW - Bill Motto - Post 5888's Destiny...
This was before, during and after Lt. Col. Oliver North, under oath, perjured himself repeatedly in a series of congressional hearings, in what became world renowned as the "iran Contra' imbroglio. or more colloquially as 'Ollie-Gate' - gathering its sobriquet from the Nixon Watergate debacle.
   In the subjected era, the presidential office was held by Ronald ("I am a Contra') Reagan, along with Vice President George Bush, who supported - the status quo defending - 'neo dictatorial Contra' - opposition to the 'revolutionary Sandanista rebels (a popular army of severely oppressed people - not unlike American revolutionaries in the War for Independence: only, much worse.)'.
  
 The central issue proved Lt. Col. North as an active liaison; trading massive quantities of Central American cocaine and weapons trafficked at large -  particularly, trans-oceanically - between, in and around El Salvador and Tehran. 
The  judicial hearing and investigative proceedings repeatedly  proved Col. North guilty, also clearly revealing him as functionally 'above the law' ('following orders' from a conspicuously unidentified - ineffectively pursued - domestic American 'upper echelon'). The ex post facto resolutions of the solemnly relavant Nurenburg Trials were not actively engaged or issued; though Lt. Col. North was found patently guilty of a series of grievous crimes, including actions tantamount to treason: under special circumstances.
Defense tactics included purportations of Lt. Col. North as exempt from massive drug & weapons trafficking charges on the premeses of 'deep cover', cogent to investigative procedures. He was monikered  from 'scape-goat' and 'hero' to 'fall guy' (the latter of which he most certainly was; criminally shielded by constitutional law breaking,  so called 'drug-war' and justice mocking. massive and infrastructurally installed rogue U.S. government safety net)...
 While clear thinking Americans witnessed yet another - severely dog-eared, chronically familiar - example of rogue elements at key stations of American government, seeing to it that justice was industriously 'slipped through the cracks' ...
    Reverently if blandly alluded to as though this - often contrived - compromise of  legal responsibility and morality were a universal law of gravitation, endorsed by Sir Isaac Newton, or Clarence Darrow.
 Lt. Col. - ('Drugs Czar U.S.') - North was delivered from justice: with impunity. Numerous perjury and other felony convictions were expunged from his record. by unrevealed 'higher authority.'  Uncompromising - sealed evidentiary - issues of alleged 'national security' were invoked.
Citizen North went on to run for governorship of the state of Virginia; although he did not prevail in this All American tradition of the (would be) democratic process, the point that no convicted felon may run for or hold public office was yet once again, emphatically thrust through the (expunged?) National Colors. along with the defiled and groped body politic of the Guardian American Goddess, Columbia and that of her likewise desecrated younger sister, Liberty (the physical abuse of women and children by adult men, including rape, being the fastest growing - least recognized - violent 'domestic' crime  in the United States; Re: AGAINST OUR WILL, by Susan Brownmiller, THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN: Susan Faludi).
Refer, the colloquial military and corporate state hyperbole, alluding to sealed containers of 'whoopaz', labeled 'Don't open this', that remained criminally unopened; whereas, converse containers were unsealed and revealed when the pretentious advantage of doing so favored the surfeit defense.
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   It was within and around this chronological window that Post 5888 made public its *'Nicaraguan Resolution' - in protest to U.S. Military - pro 'Contra' - intervention in Central America, *authored by Post Member, Dean Metcalf (USMC, Vietnam).
The entire Post, forthwith came under grimly familiar socio-political Promethean fire from numerous hostile quarters, including VFW National, Wa. D.C., and qualified representatives of the 'media' and 'public polls'. Yet, there was likewise, a telling amount of favorable  response in support of Post 5888 from the public sector, and stations, chairs & benches of political office: in hundreds of overground mailed enveloped letters, as well as sympathetic small and large press & 'electronic media'.
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    "Its like being back in the bush  (Vietnam; in the field with the 'grunts') - we can't be sure who's friend or foe. It was that way 'in country' (Vietnam). It was that way when we returned. But now it's ten years later, and I'll be damned if it isn't still that way."
- VFW 5888 Post Member. Name withheld at request.
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 "If anything has been learned from all this, its a frightening, divided lesson. Perhaps the biggest tragedy of the Nam was, and still appears to be, we - not myself or my Comrades or our families and friends, but the rest of 'them' - haven't learned from it...
 "The New Generation is remarkably naive-about and pliant-to what amounts to American Imperialism, by any other name.  It may - all too soon - happen again." 
- VFW 5888  Post Member. Name withheld at request.
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"C'mon on all you strong young men!
Uncle Sam needs yer help again!
 And it's one, two, three! What're we fightin' for?!
I don't know an' I don't give a damn! Next stop is Viet-nam!
Ain't no need to wonder why! Whoopee! We're all gonna die! Be the first one on yer block, to have yer boy sent home in a box!"
- Country Joe & The Fish, 1967
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(Just under 60,000 K.I.A. boxes and about ten years later...)
 5888 membership collectively endured scathing broadsides from Nationally sponsored VFW magazines and dominant right wing newspapers, ranging from ambitiously asserted threats to revoke the 5888 Charter  (which was eventually if temporarily carried out),  and/or impose a federal injunction on their right to publicly and truthfully express themselves - to implied and direct threats of physical violence against collective and individual membership(s). All of whom, to one degree or another, out of love of country and patriotic duty to and service for the Constitution of the United States, had placed their socio-political credibility, if not their doubly jeopardized mortality, in harm's way.

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VETERANS FAST FOR LIFE

P.O. Box 53271, Temple Heights Station, Wa. D.C. 20009

"There comes a time when we must refuse to answer to our leaders if we are also to answer to our conscience."

- Sir Hartley Shawcross, the Nuremburg Trials, 1946

 Such patriotic fortitude was most dramatically (stoically and modestly) demonstrated by *individual 5888 Post memberships who personally and publicly protested, via peaceful opposition against U.S. government approval of and military support for oppressors of the People of Central America, often at their own expense and certainly their personal peril.  Ranging from travel to, surveillance of and communication with residents and indigenous natives of oppressed areas of Central America. Including an endemically unstable, deteriorating Mexican government, displaced by martial law , especially the Mexican province of Guatemala and Central America's El Salvador and Nicaragua...
Peaceful North American protests included a 1 September, 1986 commenced life threatening 'water -only' nutritional fast of over three weeks duration,, on the steps of the United States Capitol building; carried out by passively protesting veterans...
 *Namely - in alphabetical order:
Vet, Post 5888 member, A.J. Liteky, certified recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor - the nation's highest merit for conspicuous gallantry, above & beyond any call of duty.
Vietnam vet: LITEKY, ANGELO J.
Rank and organization: Chaplain (Capt.), U.S. Army, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 199th Infantry Brigade. place and date: Near Phuoc-Lac, Bien Hoa province, Republic of Vietnam, 6 December 1967 . Entered service at: Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Born: 14 February 1931, Washington, D.C. Citation: Chaplain Liteky distinguished himself by exceptional heroism while serving with Company A, 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade. He was participating in a search and destroy operation when Company A came under intense fire from a battalion size enemy force. Momentarily stunned from the immediate encounter that ensued, the men hugged the ground for cover. Observing 2 wounded men, Chaplain Liteky moved to within 15 meters of an enemy machine gun position to reach them, placing himself between the enemy and the wounded men. When there was a brief respite in the fighting, he managed to drag them to the relative safety of the landing zone. Inspired by his courageous actions, the company rallied and began placing a heavy volume of fire upon the enemy's positions. In a magnificent display of courage and leadership, Chaplain Liteky began moving upright through the enemy fire, administering last rites to the dying and evacuating the wounded. Noticing another trapped and seriously wounded man, Chaplain Liteky crawled to his aid. Realizing that the wounded man was too heavy to carry, he rolled on his back, placed the man on his chest and through sheer determination and fortitude crawled back to the landing zone using his elbows and heels to push himself along. pausing for breath momentarily, he returned to the action and came upon a man entangled in the dense, thorny underbrush. Once more intense enemy fire was directed at him, but Chaplain Liteky stood his ground and calmly broke the vines and carried the man to the landing zone for evacuation. On several occasions when the landing zone was under small arms and rocket fire, Chaplain Liteky stood up in the face of hostile fire and personally directed the medivac helicopters into and out of the area. With the wounded safely evacuated, Chaplain Liteky returned to the perimeter, constantly encouraging and inspiring the men. Upon the unit's relief on the morning of 7 December 1967, it was discovered that despite painful wounds in the neck and foot, Chaplain Liteky had personally carried over 20 men to the landing zone for evacuation during the savage fighting. Through his indomitable inspiration and heroic actions, Chaplain Liteky saved the lives of a number of his comrades and enabled the company to repulse the enemy. Chaplain Liteky's actions reflect great credit upon himself and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.  
"When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders."
-  Liteky, VFW Post 5888 - Congressional Medal of Honor.
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  Vietnam Vet, Brian Willson, wilfully sacrificed both his legs, prostrating his body on the tracks of an ammunition train; which video tapes forensically prove, did increase instead of slowing its speed, upon seeing Mr. Willson's supine body on the tracks - near the ammunition depot in Concord, California -  protesting the massive transport of munitions,  slated for use against Central American citizens and Sandanista soldiers by United States 'proxy murderers' (Nicaraguan 'Contras', endorsed and supported by the Reagan - 'Iran-Contra'/'Lt. Col. , weapons for cocaine merchandising - Oliver North' - Administration. Directly responsible for at least 100,000 'intercine' - non combatant, civilian - man, woman and child mortalities in Central America, as of 1983:'collateral damage').
  W.W. II Vet, Duncan Murphy.
 And, last but not least, Vietnam Vet, George Mizo. 
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At this time, the Santa Cruz, CA. based Commander of VFW - 'Bill Motto'/'Wage Peace' - POST 5888, was Steve Brooks, who represented the Post in consensus support of the above and below listed Veterans:  
Dean Metcalf (Author of the 'Nicaraguan Resolution'), *Bill Watkins (Sr, Vice Commander), traveled  to El Salvador on his own resources, where they met, counseled with and presented Sandinista president Daniel Ortega, with Post 5888's NICARAGUAN RESOLUTION.  
And, again, Brian Willson - and others like them - traveled to oppressed Central American regions at issue, brushing harrowingly close to and being confronted by itinerant 'government death squads (and similar 'nameless < 'para-military', 'advisory' > elements', including American mercenaries ('mercs') in and out of uniform, sometimes participating in combat; operating, utilizing and/or conducting instructive classes in American weapons, including 'Huey Six  helicopters>')...'
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    The V.F.W. is the worlds oldest and largest overseas war veterans organization. It is chartered by the Congress of the United States.

     That charter states specifically that... "the objects of the VFW shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical and educational; that its members shall preserve and strengthen comradeship; that they shall maintain allegiance to the government of the United States and fidelity to its laws; that VFW members shall foster true patriotism, extend American freedom and defend this nation from all Her enemies;  whomsoever, be they foreign, or domestic".

    The VFW is also joined by 750,000 members of our Ladies Auxiliary in our efforts. They foster true patriotism, and strengthen the institutions of freedom by word and deed. They improve their cities, towns and neighborhoods through community service. They give aid to worthy comrades and to the widows and orphans. They extend helping hands to the needy and ailing. 

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Partial List of Press Published Events: Anthologized, narrated & authored by *Kent B. Robertson, aka 'Ben': 

    *Post 5888 Co-Founder, Post Officer of the Day - Chief Warrant Security Officer / Charter Member/ Post Historian./ Nine years alternate Rifleman and Captain of Honor Guard Service w'  Capitola Post 7263/ Universal LIfe Church Ordained VFW Chaplain At Large.                                                        .........................................         
    William ('Bill') Theodore Motto was K. B. Robertson's room mate in Santa Cruz and Boulder Creek, California.
    While serving two consecutive one year tours in 'the bush'  as a cross-trained Combat Medic and Airborne Soldier of the 173rd Airborne Division - 'The 3rd Herd' - Bill Motto was the recipient of two Purple Hearts and Two Bronze Stars. He perished of a massive coronary at age 32, while fishing  near the Santa Cruz Boardwalk (with a fish in his bucket and a copy of Doris Lessing's Four Gated City in his back pocket); less than 400 yards from where he lived with Comrade Robertson. Motto was posthumously awarded 100% disability payments of $2,400 monthly for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This belated award was granted to his Mother, who signed it over to permanent monthly charity for distressed Vietnam Veterans.

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    This missive is compliments of the *White Mongol Press.

    *Subsidiary to Great Continental EuroAsian Green Grass RiverDragon Productions

    kraziequus@yahoo.com







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Readers are respectfully & cordially invited to attend the Disabled American Veterans, Family & Friends - PTSD - chat room at:

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Robby Robertson
January 06, 2012 06:24 PM