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- Updated: April 29th 2005
- We sent a joint letter to Secretary of Defense
Cohen on
- October 20th
2000.
- VSO
joint letter to Cohen on OSAGWI
- Text
version of letter
-
- Trouble makers in the group sprang up.
- Message to
group of VFW dissention
-
- We got our response letters from Dr. Bernard Rostker
- shortly, on November 1st 2000. This would be the last
- time veterans had input into CCEP or CPG, as in 2001
- they stopped allowing veterans to attend the VSO
- meetings as I had done for years.
- UNSECDEF
Bernard Rostker letter - Nov 1st, 2000
- UNSECDEF
Bernard Rostker page 2 - Nov 1st, 2000
- Text OCR of
letter - Bernard Rostker - Nov 1st, 2000
-
- Dr. Rostker said they welcomed veteran input
at the
- meetings, his predecessor Mike Kilpatrick
would be
- the opposite as OSAGWI became DHSD. Instead
of
- reports put out the day of the VSO meeting,
they wouldn't
- even put out the information of the meeting
itself. Until we
- at DBSR made DHSD start putting up its VSO
meeting
- information. Which still took up to 6 months. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/4508
-
- The Gulf War Council slowly disintegrated into 2001,
- as VFW pulled out first distancing themselves. Then
- shortly the other NSO's backed away after they claimed
- things got to political. Still, all were united for a brief
- period longer - as we all worked on HR 612.
-
- Now the NSO's don't even show up at all for
meetings like the
- IOM Gulf War Health review on April 20th 2005.
Its all in
- limbo just the way DOD wants it. Sadly those
that want to
- attend Pentagon functions aren't welcome, and
those that
- attend say nothing to anyone.
-
- Its all nice giant secret program where no one
can see in,
- not like in 2000. When will Gulf War issue be
a public
- program again. Didn't we fight to make this
public in 1997.
-
- Old page from Nov 2000
-
- The Gulf War
Council
-
- Composed of Veteran Service Organizations, Grass Roots groups,
and Veterans. The Council meets monthly to discuss Gulf War issues and
plan strategy for coping with Government entities.
The next meeting
will be November 20th, 2000. Please contact any of the following for input into the meeting:
Steve
Smithson - American Legion
Bill
Frasure - Vietnam Veterans of America
Kirt
Love - Desert Storm Battle Registry
This is the
letter we sent to SECDEF William Cohen concerning advanced notice materials on future NSO meetings at the Pentagon.
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