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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS 5 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 2003 Letters 1,000 pork barrell projects was Continued from Page 4 formed for the purpose of reviewing all development. 6. Any group claiming others to be trash fish" or bottom feeders probably have hit the nail on the head about themselves. 7. True professionals have more to do than try to tear down the good ideas of real leaders. 8. Truly, certain fundamentalists are still trying to hide in rural Utah. Their real agenda needs to be revealed. Paul Bingham, Chairman Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, Mount Carmel - cope with living. Another will be dedicating a memorial young man from Pennsylvania to the 16 million men and wasnt staring at anything. He women who fought in World was blind. One leg had been War II. We already have meamputated and his arm morials for the 15 million who States decided that funding to Veterans health care funding slaughtered In rush for pork Dear Editor Oh July 25, the U.S. House of Representatives broke faith with our nations veterans by removing $1.8 billion from the VA medical appropriations bill it had agreed to in April. At a time when our nation is engaged in a worldwide war on terrorism, and 200,000 veterans from previous wars are still standingin line for medical care, the Congress of the United more important than ensuring that veterans receive timely, quality medical care. Where in the name of God are their priorities? We have money to pay for a statue of the Roman god Vulcan in Birmingham, AL. We have money to pay for a bike trail in North Dakota. We have money to fund a Nevada helicopter company that performs Elvis impersonator weddings. And yet we have neither the heart nor the will to ensure that all United States veterans receive the medical care they earned and we owe them. This is outrageous and I can not believe the American people will stand for this. During the past year, Ive visited more than 60 VA hospitals. Last month I visited a military hospital in Germany that was receiving three plane loads of wounded veterans a day. Last week I visited several hundred more wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC. I have never met such patriotic, dedicated and committed young men. To a man, each wanted to be back in Iraq with his buddies, with his unit. One young man from Micronesia, who had lost both legs and an arm, was just staring at the ceiling, obviously wondering how he would be able mangled. Another had his leg crushed by a tank. Each of them, like thousands of their brothers and sisters in previous wars, was passing through Walter Reed on their Americans - will stand idly by while Congress refuses to fully care for those who bore the battle? I dont think so. America will Korea and Vietnam. not in accept this VA budget. We fought we have soldiers in will take this fight directly to Today, more than 130 countries wag- the people and there will be ing a war on terrorism whose no armistice until every vetend is not yet in sight. eran, everywhere, receives the 60 the years, medical care so richly deDuring past nearly every family in America served. - Ronald F. has sent one or more of their Conley sons and daughters to fight wmmMmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmm somewhere in defense of freeNeed Storage? dom. Dont you think that the Try Ocean . very least we owe them is adin medical care equate provided Cargo Containers a timely manner? No community is untouched 8 x 20, 8 x 40 by war. Somewhere in your Tough & Tight , neighborhood there flies a Blue Delivered to your Site Star Banner, or Gold Star Banner, signifying a sacrifice made Call Toll Free not statistics. by a family on the altar of freemerely theyre They are the human toll taken dom. Do you think that these by war, and we owe them first families - do you think that these priority in any budget decision made on behalf of the American way, eventually, to a VA hospital, joining those in the long, long line waiting for care because the system is desperately under funded. I suggest that Congress make a point of visiting Walter Reed and the local VA hospitals in Washington - theyre right up the street from where they voted yesterday to decimate the VA medical budget. These men and women are not merely numbers; people. The inevitable result of Con- gress ignoring its duty and breaking its promise will be deprivation for those who have paid the price for freedom. 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