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"The White House said those circumstances could include current
national security issues a former president might be unaware of. "In
effect the executive order makes the release of records dependent on the
good graces of the former president," said Public Citizen attorney
Scott Nelson."
"The whole point of the Presidential Records Act was to take control
of access out of the hands of the former presidents," he said. "By
giving
the presidents back the power to cover up inconvenient demands, the
executive order has inevitably made people wonder what they may be
trying
to hide."
Nelson said the government had 60 days to respond and he expected briefs
to be presented in U.S. District court early in 2002.
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Remains Identified - From the Department of Defense, December 6th - "The
remains of an American serviceman missing in action from the Vietnam War
have been identified and returned to his family in the United
States. Identified is Navy Cmdr. John A. Feldhaus, of Lawrenceberg,
Tenn."
"On Oct. 8, 1966, Feldhaus took off from the carrier USS Oriskany in an
A-1H Skyraider on an armed reconnaissance mission over Thanh Hoa
Province,
North Vietnam. As he and his wingman entered heavy clouds, Feldhaus
radioed that he had been hit by enemy ground fire and his right wing was
on
fire. His wingman never saw Feldhaus' aircraft again, but he did report
seeing a fireball on the ground which he believed to be an aircraft
crash."
"The wingman and another aircrew searched the area of the crash without
success. They saw no parachute and heard no emergency radio signals.
The
visual search was hampered by enemy ground fire and deteriorating
weather. Electronic surveillance continued on the succeeding days, but
revealed nothing."
"In October 1993, a joint U.S./Vietnamese team led by Joint Task
Force-Full
Accounting conducted an investigation in Thanh Hoa Province where they
believed the crash occurred, but they found no aircraft debris or
remains. Between 1996 and 2000, another four investigations or
excavations
were conducted in Vietnam, yielding aircraft debris, pilot-related
artifacts, personal effects and remains."
"Among the forensic tools used by the U.S. Army Central Identification
Laboratory Hawaii (CILHI) to confirm the identification was that of
mitochondrial DNA, in which DNA from a skeletal fragment was matched to
that of a Feldhaus family member...."
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Report From Ground Zero - Early last week the Medical Examiners Office
of
New York City announced that they had misidentified the remains of one
of
the firefighters recovered from Ground Zero Remains
originally identified as firefighter Jose Guadalup were disinterred,
when
it was confirmed that the remains were actually firefighter Christopher
Santora.
The Medical Examiners Office acted swiftly to correct their error and
dealt
with the families in an honest manner.
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CIL-HI Take A Lesson......
Why Does Johnnie Webb Still Have A Job??????????
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Plan Ahead - The National Alliance of Families 13th Annual Forum will
be
held June 20 - 22, 2002. Details to follow.
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"Increased Need to Trust Government Drives Seismic Shift in Public
Opinion"
- From Fox News - WASHINGTON - "The Sept. 11 attacks and the Bush
administration's response have driven up the public's trust in the
government to levels not seen in more than three decades."
"That trust comes at a time when Americans are more willing to accept
government censorship for national security, strict security measures
that
curb the rights of terrorism suspects and a terrorism war that could
include high American casualties...."
"....Pollsters, historians and social scientists are watching closely to
see if the increased trust in institutions that came after the terrorist
attacks will be long_term, like some public opinion shifts during
earlier
wars, or will quickly temper. They tend to agree the length of positive
sentiment towards the government is related to the duration of security
threats and the government's performance..."
"...The number of Americans who think government can be trusted to do
what
is right most of the time has risen to six in 10, according to a
recent Gallup poll. That's a level not seen since the 1960s, before a
steady drop in public trust with Vietnam, civil unrest and the Watergate
scandal."
"By 1980, only 25 percent of the public felt government could be
trusted most of the time, and by 1994, only 17 percent felt that way.
By
the late 1990s, the number who trusted government had rebounded to
about
40
percent."
"Those who closely monitor public opinion caution such attitudes can
change
rapidly, depending on the progress of the war on terrorism and the
economy.
But they also said the terror threat may have changed something
fundamental
about how the government is perceived. Earlier wars caused long_term
shifts in public opinion, most notably World War II, when Americans
grew
more comfortable with the idea of women in the workplace and a
peacetime
draft. They also shifted from an isolationist view of the world to
widespread acceptance that the United States has an international role,
said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People &
the Press."
"...Attitudes on things that are directly related to terrorism or the
government, anything related to the government or government leaders has
changed significantly," said Frank Newport, executive editor of the
Gallup
Poll. "The real question is whether this represents a real realignment
or
is a temporary shift."
"The increased trust probably will last as long as the country needs to
keep its focus on national security, Newport said."
"Right now, people have to trust the government," he said. "It's the
only
entity that can provide security...."
"...The increase in the trust of government cannot be extended beyond
the government's response to these security concerns," said Stephen
Wayne,
a professor of government at Georgetown University. "I don't think
the people trust the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the IRS or
the Social Security Administration any more than they did."
Even the trust in government may be tempered as "Congress gets back to
a more combative role," said Karlyn Bowman, polling analyst at
the American Enterprise Institute.
That high level of trust in government probably includes a degree
of wishful thinking.
"There is a very thin line," sociologist Robinson said, "between the
trust
people have of government in this national security crisis and the hope
they have that government will succeed."
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At this difficult time, there is indeed a increased need to trust our
leadership. However, can we really afford blind trust. Anyone
involved
in the POW/MIA issue knows there are valid reasons for distrust. So,
how
do we strike the balance.
Can we continue to criticize the actions of past and present
administrations, for their failures in the POW/MIA issue, while we
support
out government actions against terrorism and the decision to send
another
generation to war?
Can we continue to criticize Marine Command for "cooking the books" and
lying to POW/MIA families about the Marines lost at Con Thien, while we
wholeheartedly support our Marines searching the caves of Afghanistan,
for
bin Laden?
Can we continue to criticize CILHI for their multiple misidentification,
as
flag draped coffins are being returned to the United States?
Can we continue to criticize the decisions and decision makers that left
men behind in past wars, knowing that many of those individuals are at
this
moment making the decisions in our war against terrorism?
These are a few of the many questions we've asked ourselves since
September
11th. After much thought we've come to two conclusions.
The first - those who believe in the LIVE POW/MIA issue are
knowledgeable
enough in this issue to differentiate between our criticism of command
decisions that resulted in the abandonment of Servicemen from World War
II,
Korea, Cold War, Vietnam and the Gulf War and our complete support of
the
men and women in the field.
The second - It is our wholehearted support of our active duty personnel
that compels us, in part, to do what we do. Never again, at wars end
should there be a Michael Speicher, Charles Shelton, David Hrdlicka,
John
McDonnell, Roger Dumas, Richard Desautel, Ronald Van Wees, Samuel
Busch, Jack Lively, or any of the hundreds and perhaps thousands left
behind in enemy hands, at wars end.
So, come January 12th, the gloves are, once again, off.
Till then....
We wish you all the Merriest Christmas, the Happiest Chanukah and all
the
best for the New Year. Now, more than ever we need the joy of the
Holiday
Season.
To our Troops Deployed - You are in our prayers, stay safe and may you
all
be home soon
To our POW/MIA Families - What can we say, that has not been said over
the
last 28, 48, or 56 years. Japanese POWs have made it home from World
War
II. South Korean POWs have made it home from the Korean War.
Someday,
with God's help, the next man out will be an American. We all pray for
that day. We pray for each of you, that you will have the strength
carry
on the fight for another year.
To the Veterans and Activists who support us - We thank God for you
every
day. We couldn't do it without you.
For this holiday season, we would like, once again, to share a favorite
poem with you.
"Though we've come a long way, there is much, much more to be done.
the deck is stacked against us. Our adversaries are well-entrenched
and well-financed and scared of any change in the status quo.
In the long run, we will prevail.
We hold the trump card, folks and when the dust clears, and
the dense morning fog burns off,
when we clear our wire of sappers, and the gunships go home,
by God, we'll still be there, because what we seek to do is right."
-- Author Unknown
TRUTH, JOY, AND PEACE TO US ALL IN 2002.
Dolores, Lynn and the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of
Families
"Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes
from
tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord: and they shall
come
again from the land of the enemy; and there is hope in thine end, saith
the
Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border." JerMIAh
31:16-_17:
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See you all in January
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