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May 9, 2005
Congressman
Tom Allen
RE: Proposed World Service Corps (WSC) Resolutions seeks your
co-sponsorship
Dear Congressman Allen:
As
a former football player myself, I appreciated your words,
“Football
taught me quite forcefully that good intentions are not enough in this world.
We are judged not by our intentions but by our performance.”
Many of us relearned that
doing Peace Corps and Habitat building projects.
With
those thoughts in mind, would you be one of the co-sponsors of my two WSC
proposals that at least 26 Congressional Representatives have under
consideration?
The two WSC proposals call for national service, particularly by those
aged 18-26. Under the proposals, those
who serve have their choice of serving in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat
for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors without Borders, or the Red Cross. One proposal would require one year of
service for all 18 -26 year olds. Those
who volunteered for our all-volunteer army would be exempt from this year of
required peaceful national service. If
Americans choose the second WSC proposal and volunteered for two years of
service, two years of community college and two years of state college or
vocational training or graduate school tuition fees would be paid.
As
a young man, you resigned from the Alpha Kappa Sigma national fraternity
because of the national’s “unwritten racial membership restrictions,” a
laudable decision. Today, too many young
and older Americans denigrate the peoples of other nations. Be they “gooks” or “rag heads,” too many
Americans are too narrowly focused to understand the world’s nations and
peoples. Such myopic understanding costs
us lives and dollars.
With nuclear and biological weapons available in today’s global village, such
spreading ignorance pushes the whole world closer to escalating death and
destruction. The WSC can stem and turn
that regressive movement forward to a progressively better life for all.
Your staff can link to substantial updated World Service Corps information
by clicking the World Service Corp link at www.worldservicecorps.us Similar requests have thus far been made to
those CCed below. Thanks for your
consideration.
Sincerely,
CC: Senators Feinstein, Boxer; McCain, Collins,
Kennedy, Dodd, Coleman, Dole, Specter, Hatch, Clinton, Obama, Snowe, Smith.
Representatives
Woolsey, Lantos, Walsh, Honda, Shays, Petri, Lee, Farr, Saunders, Kucinich,
Rangel.