-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Soldiers For The Truth Foundation "Celebrating Independence" and "Rediscovering Our Ideals" TABLE OF CONTENTS SITREP From The President - 27 June – 4 July 2001 Through Zman’s Gun Sight - Independence Day... Back To Our Roots HACK’s Target For The Week - Ship The Wannabes To Kosovo The Big Picture: Article 01 – The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies Article 02 – A Crusade To Salvage A Big Gun Article 03 – U.S. Backs NATO Troops in Macedonia Voice of the Troops: Article 04 – Panels Are Missing The Crux of The Problems: Leadership Article 05 – Aircraft Programs Need Help Article 06 – No Room For Warriors Article 07 – International Views: Reason Defeats Rhetoric Article 08 – Is The Light Finally On At The Pentagon? Article 09 – The Sergeant’s Corner: How Officers Shouldn’t Be! Article 10 – The Guard: We Are Home Town America Article 11 – Korea Vets Shouldn’t Miss This Opportunity Military Health Care: Article 12 – Some Thoughts About Our Independence GI Humor: Article 13 – NTSB Accident Reviews Medal of Honor: Article 14 – YEIKI KOBASHIGAWA, Italy, 1944 SITREP: SITUATION REPORT: 27 June – 4 July 2001 Knowing that many of you will travel over the next two weeks to enjoy summer vacation or an Independence Day get-away, we decided to combine the 27 June and 4 July issues. I hope you find the topics relevant and thought provoking. As always, thanks for the responses to our recent questions and articles. Even if I can’t answer them all, I do read them and incorporate many of your ideas and comments in the newsletter. So keep the mails coming and let me know if there are topics you would like us to cover with a burst of fire. Keep forwarding the word to your political representatives. SFTT is reaching more and more into the inner circles of decision-making. 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(Zimm) Zimmermann President, Soldiers For The Truth SFTT Dateline USA - 4 July 2001 As we celebrate Independence Day # 225, more people than ever can purchase a wider variety of consumer products, while at the same time political correctness and greed have curtailed our ability to partake in governing this republic. Afraid of confrontations and lawsuits, we increasingly are abdicating the decision-making to political elites, big business and the lawyers. Where are we headed? In education, we praise now mediocre achievements and applaud kids for merely showing up for class, while at the same time, we prevent teachers from enforcing discipline and higher standards. Parents forced to work two jobs for economic survival, or, merely focused on consumption, miss that Johnny can’t control himself. It’s not a surprise that kids bring guns to school to settle disagreements or hurt feelings. But we deny that it could be the kids’ fault and we prefer to blame violence on the guns. In business profits come ahead of people welfare and adequate pay for our working grunts. Disagreements and open discussions are suppressed for job survival, turning many Americans into mindless extensions of their computers. More people than ever release their anger in traffic, at their families, consume useless products, or swallow mood enhancing "legal" drugs, which only benefit the pharmaceutical industry. In politics, promising something to everyone and buttering each other up is the surest shot to get elected to higher office. After the elections, it’s "NATO" or no action talk only once again. Just remember the promises to reduce peacekeeping in the Balkans and compare this to current talks about more troops for Macedonia. Also recall President Clinton, Commander in Chief, accepting a military medal presented by his subordinates, the Joint Chiefs. In the military, mediocrity is already the norm. The blander and more cooperative you are, the easier it is to put up with useless rules and correctness baloney. Mediocrity is clearly showing in selection rates in the 80-90% range for Captains, Majors, Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels, when compared to 60-70% ranges in years past. Our generals much prefer cheerleading subordinates to reasoning and outspoken ones. For your excessive loyalty, you get meaningless but colorful ribbons, like the Kosovo campaign ribbon, recently even awarded to General Clark for courageously leading the troops from far-away Brussels. Held hostage by the extremists of both political parties, our society today avoids constructive political confrontation to create workable compromises. Any criticism of leaders and celebrities is considered "negative" or "dark". You have to be positive, even if it requires medication and excessive amounts of chicken soup for the soul to get there. It’s time to rediscover the values and the character traits that once spurred our nation to excel. We need to study those who questioned the tyrannical rule of King George. Surprisingly, most were critical thinkers, like Jefferson, Washington, or Patrick Henry. They were men, not afraid to make a few enemies to create their vision. The list of our nation’s creative rebels also includes countless soldiers: The often depressed and rumpled looking Sherman and the hard-drinking Grant were quite different, but produced victory in the Civil War; Alvin York WWI combat hero, was also an outspoken pacifist; Billy Mitchell proved the worth of strategic airpower, Patton cursed and prayed but shortened the war in Europe; McArthur offended Presidents but turned the tide in Korea. What all these great men had in common was character, creativity and pioneer spirit. They dared to be different and weren’t paranoid about being popular. They believed in a cause and stood for it. What made them spiritual warriors is that they knew when their mission was completed. Then, they stepped down or simply faded away, leaving us lasting legacies that still vibrate in society. We are again in desperate need of true characters and civic heroes to propel us forward. We can’t just accept that the truth is the monopoly of a leadership elite. Political and social progress is citizen business, especially when war, peace and the lives of our own are at stake. The best way to commemorate our Declaration of Independence is to confront political and societal issues with more personal responsibility and involvement in our communities and on the national level. Let’s make a difference without fear of having a couple of disagreements and let’s exorcise the ghost of national mediocrity by returning to the courage and values of the founding fathers. © R.W. Zimmermann, LandserUSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: This article is copyrighted by the author and requires his approval for other than newsletter further dissemination. HACK HACK’s Target For The Week - Ship The Wannabes To Kosovo By David Hackworth Over the years, Mount Holyoke's Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Professor Joseph J. Ellis has enthralled his students with war stories about his exploits on the beaches of Tuy Hoa and in the jungles around Anh Khe back when he was a platoon leader in the mighty 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. Having spent four years in the proud 101st and one year in "Tim's Traveling Trouble" 1st Brigade in Vietnam, it puzzled me that I'd never heard of the learned Ph.D. Believe me, a paratrooper with a Ph.D. is someone the grunts talk about. And in '65, the 1/101st was a very tight outfit, most of us having served together at Fort Campbell before we went to Vietnam. But when I checked with many scarred mates who served in the famed brigade, they, too, drew a blank when it came to brave Platoon Leader Ellis. Now the hero-soldier-turned-academic-turned-author (who claims that Thomas Jefferson fathered a child with Sally Hemmings) has been proven a liar and a fraud -- and my 1st Brigade pals uniformly want his head at the end of a pike. "The puke's danced on the graves of all my friends who didn't come back and diminished all of our deeds," 101st vet and dear friend retired Army Col. Ben Willis raged. Meanwhile, Mount Holyoke is standing by its man. Bet your jump boots if my son were still attending one of the Five Colleges, he wouldn't be sitting in this phony's class. Then there's basketball-jock-cum-clown Dennis Rodman, who was recently photographed wearing a U.S. Army green jacket ablaze with four rows of ribbons, including the Combat Infantryman Badge with a star indicating he'd fought as a grunt in two major wars. A check with a friend at St. Louis' National Personnel Records Center indicates that basketball threads are the only uniform the blond tattooed one's entitled to wear. And by flaunting undeserved awards, this muscled buffoon falls into the same category as Ellis. My blood especially boiled when I saw Rodman wearing the CIB, an award treasured above all others by many infantry combat vets, this one included. To us, the CIB is a badge of honor, a symbol of great sacrifice. And, to add insult to injury, Rodman had it on upside-down! Claiming false service or wearing unauthorized awards denigrates the service, patriotism and gallantry of all who have served. B.G. Burkett's brilliant book "Stolen Valor" depicts scores of sickos like Ellis and Rodman, many of whom have become "the object of award-winning documentaries on national network television ... who have flooded major publishing houses with false tales of heroism which have become best-selling biographies." Many of the frauds Burkett outed wore Medals of Honor and other valor awards they didn't earn. Many conned their way into the U.S. Congress and other positions of trust with bona fides based on their fake honors and resumes. Why a person becomes a warrior wannabe is food for the shrinks, but what concerns me more is the public's indifference. Apparently, it counts more that Ellis is a good teacher and Rodman a good athlete than that they're bad role models. Or maybe there's no outcry because many Americans can no longer tell the difference between fact and fiction. Look at the movie "Pearl Harbor." The kids who saw it probably think Japan was on our side. And besides Hollywood-type distortions, the nation is suffering media overload from the 24/7 intense hype we get on the tube -- where reality shows are carefully choreographed fiction, and wars and executions have theme songs and logos. Maybe the Ellises and Rodmans aren't big-enough celebrities for the media to really run with. If they'd been a Clinton or the Bush girls, Peter Jennings would've been zapping them rather than breathlessly recounting the sizzling bit of breaking news that Timothy McVeigh's death certificate listed his occupation as a soldier. If we don't stop putting down our soldiers and start protecting their honors and service -- perhaps by passing a law sentencing all warrior wannabes to hard time clearing mines with a bayonet someplace as cruel and dangerous as Kosovo -- then somewhere down the line, we'll lose our liberty because no one will be motivated any longer to defend America. David Hackworth's home page is at - http://www.hackworth.com Send mail to P.O. Box 5210, Greenwich, CT 06831. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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