Here’s a brief summary of Chapter 152’s outreach to active duty military. I live within three blocks of the Allentown PA National Guard armory. On my way home from work, I drive past the armory to see how many cars are parked in the lot and across the street in the lot of the small shopping center.
I have compiled a packet of information which contains the following: an application for IVAW, VFP, and MFSO; an Appeal For Redress form; a copy of War Is A Racket by Marine General Smedley Butler; a DVD copy of the Winter Soldier promo; a map of Iraq used by VP Dick Cheney during the secret energy task force meetings with areas denoted “earmarked for production-sharing,” which I downloaded from the Judicial Watch website; and the Military Project's pamphlet on GI Rights.
I introduce myself as a veteran and ask the guardsmen if they would like some free information on GI Rights. Most of them take it, and all have been polite. I've only had a few who declined. Since it is a Headquarters armory, there are different people coming and going all the time, so I haven't had the opportunity to get to know any of the guardsmen personally.
I usually try to be at the armory on a Sunday afternoon when the guardsmen leave to go home for a weekend. My hope and intent is to have the guardsman or woman take the information home to share with their families.
I also carry GI Rights wallet-sized cards in my wallet, which I am putting under the windshield wipers of any cars with military stickers that I see parked in parking lots or on the streets wherever I go.
I believe it will be our military members who will end these wars of aggression. Either that, or the country will go bankrupt. I don't know which will come first.
I have compiled a packet of information which contains the following: an application for IVAW, VFP, and MFSO; an Appeal For Redress form; a copy of War Is A Racket by Marine General Smedley Butler; a DVD copy of the Winter Soldier promo; a map of Iraq used by VP Dick Cheney during the secret energy task force meetings with areas denoted “earmarked for production-sharing,” which I downloaded from the Judicial Watch website; and the Military Project's pamphlet on GI Rights.
I introduce myself as a veteran and ask the guardsmen if they would like some free information on GI Rights. Most of them take it, and all have been polite. I've only had a few who declined. Since it is a Headquarters armory, there are different people coming and going all the time, so I haven't had the opportunity to get to know any of the guardsmen personally.
I usually try to be at the armory on a Sunday afternoon when the guardsmen leave to go home for a weekend. My hope and intent is to have the guardsman or woman take the information home to share with their families.
I also carry GI Rights wallet-sized cards in my wallet, which I am putting under the windshield wipers of any cars with military stickers that I see parked in parking lots or on the streets wherever I go.
I believe it will be our military members who will end these wars of aggression. Either that, or the country will go bankrupt. I don't know which will come first.
VFP Chapter 152 member Louise Legun doing her regular vigll at the Allentown, PA, National Guard armory