In Time of War Veterans to be honored

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20091101/NEWS01/911010335/1060

Veterans Day will be a special occasion for Benton's Dale Whipple, who will spend it in the nation's capital, honoring fallen comrades in Arlington National Cemetery.

After that, he and other officers with the Berlin Airlift Veterans Association will be the guests of Vice President Joe Biden at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House.

Whipple will leave Nov. 8 for the event. He and the tens of thousands of airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines who served with him in the late 1940s are part of a lost class of U.S. veterans, the "Cold Warriors" who stood alerts and wore the nation's uniforms at a time of ostensible peace but when war could uncoil like a snake at any time.

"We were 20 miles from the Russian zone," Whipple said of his time in occupied Germany just a few years after World War II ended. "You could look down the mountain and see them patrolling. It was an uneasy time even though it wasn't war."

More important than winning a war, the airlift, which defied a Russian blockade of the then-divided German city of Berlin, not only fed the besieged people but also the imagination of the world, which knew Allied resolve would win over totalitarianism.

"I'm really proud of that," said Whipple, who has returned to Berlin several times over the decades. "At the time, we didn't realize the impact it would have on Germany and the entire world because we provided the people with food and they wound up with their freedom. We were holding back the Soviet troops."

Locally, veterans will be honored in numerous ways, largely at schools on the federal holiday, Nov. 11, that traces its origins to the final day of combat in World War I.

However, a handful of high-interest events will take place the Saturday before the official holiday to allow the greatest number of people to participate.

A Veterans Day Parade will be held Saturday at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City. And a Veterans for Veterans motorcycle event and festival will be held the same day in Shreveport-Bossier City.

Veterans from World War II and wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan will march along a half-mile route along U.S. Highway 80 starting at 10 a.m. in the Honor Our Heroes parade.

The Veterans for Veterans rally at Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport is a free-admission, family-oriented event that will include live music, food and nonalcoholic drinks with a bike show, bike games, a car show, a silent auction and a drawing for prizes.

It will begin at 9 a.m. with a posting of the colors, followed by the Port Belly Project belly dancers, the bike show, guest speakers, a parade of motorcycles, a Barksdale Air Force Base flyover, live music and the silent auction.

Ther charge to participate in the ride is $20 each in advance, $25 the day of the event, with proceeds going to support veterans receiving care from the Overton Brooks facility. Donations are tax-deductible

Say 'thank you' to veterans for their service and sacrifice

A nicely written article. Read it and think about it, then thank a vet, not just on veterans day, but everyday. Thank you to those serving now.

Say 'thank you' to veterans for their service and sacrifice

Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.

Did Bush and Cheney go to Dover AFB?

From Veterans Today. It appears no they did not

http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9212

NO TIME TO HONOR AMERICA'S DEAD: BUSH/CHENEY HAD OTHER PRIORITIES, LIKE WHEN THEY MISSED THE VIETNAM WAR

by Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

President Bush and Vice President Cheney claimed they had repeatedly visited Dover AFB to honor American war dead. Their claim that this was done quietly, with no cameras and no publicity is now proven to have been a total lie.

Neither Bush nor Cheney ever visited Dover. Neither came there, even once in 7 years of war, despite their stories told of tearful experiences that simply never happened.

This week, while attacking President Obama for a public visit to Dover to honor war dead, Vice President Cheney's daughter Liz again repeated the stories President Bush and her father told, now known to be lies.

This couldn't have happened at a worse time for Vice President Cheney. His story that he knew nothing of the exposure of top CIA nuclear weapons proliferation spy, Valerie Plame has lost any credibility, especially with federal prosecutors.

The importance of this case, in light of the spying arrest of top nuclear weapons designer, Stewart Nozette is closely tied to the Plame case. Nozette had been furnishing "Q" clearance (our highest) weapons information to foreign spies from Israel, not necessarly the Israeli government, who are suspected of selling this information to North Korea, Iran and Pakistan.

The exposure of Plame by the GOP allowed this spying to continue and may have led to the development of North Korea's nuclear weapons. The technology trail, as described by FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, has put top American weapons technologies in the hands of nearly every American enemy.

Nozette believed he was spying against the US for Israel and, when approached by FBI agents pretending to be Mossad agents, showed surprise. He said he had been working for the Mossad for years. However, this was not the case.

If, as prosecutors allege, former Vice President Cheney had been involved in derailing CIA efforts to break up spy rings active in nuclear proliferation, Cheney's involvement, whether done because of a total mental breakdown or a real desire to harm the security of the United States, are going to take the full power of every criminal element high in our government to suppress.

Sources indicate that Vice President Cheney had become involved in an extremist Christian cult that openly advocated nuclear war, knowing it would destroy all life on Earth. Many top GOP leaders, Tom Delay, John Ashcroft, Trent Lott, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz and others, some Christians, some Jews, are believed to have shared bizarre theories of Armageddon, apocalypse and rapture.

Cheney is thought to have believed he had been personally selected to sit at the hand of G-d and supervise the suffering of those "left behind" as described in series of books read and discussed at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

The destruction on 9/11 and the Iraq invasion closely parallel scenarios described in these books. The number of bizarre coincidences involving these and many other issues seem, to many, overwhelming, showing a human, if not diabiolical hand.

Jerald Terwilliger, National Chairman

American Cold War Veterans, Inc.

IDSnews.com | Robert Gates to speak at Winter Commencement

Secretary Gates to speak at Indiana University. Does he still remember the Cold War? Maybe he should read his own book


IDSnews.com | Robert Gates to speak at Winter Commencement

Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"

While Melbourne, FL says NO parade this year

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091102/NEWS01/911020310/1006/news01/City+will+reassess+veterans+holiday

City will reassess veterans holiday

BY SUSANNE CERVENKA • FLORIDA TODAY • November 2, 2009

MELBOURNE — MELBOURNE -- Veterans Day could return as an official Melbourne holiday starting next year.

Melbourne will revisit its holiday schedule when city workers start contract negotiations in six months with two of the three unions, City Manager Jack Schluckebier said.

"We will certainly bring that to the table and see if we can make some headway with it," he said.

Veterans Day and Presidents Day were dropped as city holidays this year in an effort to trim Melbourne's budget. The decision meant that City Hall stays open on those days. The change saved the city more than $120,000 in overtime costs.

The city council eliminated two holidays but allowed the unions to select which days to cut. In exchange, employees received two vacation days.

But eliminating Veterans Day offended veterans groups, which spoke against the change.

"I think moving Veterans Day to another day other than Nov. 11 would be disrespectful to our retired servicemen and also those who are active now in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Gerald Agerstrand of the American Legion.

It's too late to make changes this year.

Contact Cervenka at 242-3632 or scervenka@floridatoday.com.

No tip of the hat to Melbourne.

Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.

Brunswick honors veterans with 77th parade - The Frederick News-Post Online

Brunswick, MD hold Veterans Day Parade. Well Done

Brunswick honors veterans with 77th parade - The Frederick News-Post Online

Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"