Sound
Off Veterans United for
Truth
February 25, 2006
Vol. I, No
15
The Newsletter of VETERANS
UNITED FOR TRUTH, Inc.
“Veterans
standinG up for each other”
Subject: World Service Corps benefits
soldiers, vets, candidates, and nation
In late
November, CBS nightly news showed an American Admiral in front of his
helicopter and troops, who were helping rebuild an earthquake devastated
Pakistani village, saying, “This is a strategic moment in time in which we show
what Americans are made of.”
Veteran and Congressman John Murtha believes our 1.4 million superbly
trained but overburdened warriors, stationed in over
150 nations, “…can not do nation building.”
To answer both
needs in today’s global village, we must win “hearts and minds.” To do that our
military needs another Corps, who are trusted and experienced in building
peaceful, productive, healthy nations. We can build that volunteer corps of comrades-without- arms to help our military by
introducing and passing People’s Lobby, citizen-initiated, World Service Corps
(WSC) congressional proposals.
Enacting the WSC proposed congressional legislation creates the
alternative peaceful, productive army that makes life better for
soldiers and nations. If enacted this year, each year for the next seven years
approximately 140,000 Americans would voluntarily choose to serve in their
choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start,
Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam,
Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, etc. By the seventh year one million WSC
members, or .one sixth of 1% of Americans aged 20-60, would be annually serving
at home or abroad for at least the ensuing 20 years, whereupon Congress could
consider sun-setting the WSC legislation.
For more
details, to read the Congressional proposals, to sign the on-line Petition, go
to www.WorldServiceCorps.us. The WSC
proposals need Veterans running for Congress pushing the proposals as a major
part of their campaigns.
For further information, contact