We are the ignored "Cold Warriors", we served our tours during the Cold War
from Sept. 1945 to Dec. 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I would like to invite all those who served during this period to join the American Cold War Veterans. We are a VSO dedicated to researching and preserving the history of the Cold War.
One of our goals is to convince Congress to authorize and direct DOD to issue a Cold War
Victory Medal to everyone who served honorably durng the Cold War.
Another goal, a long term goal, is to have a memorial dedicated to the Cold War errected in
Washington, DC.
Please visit our website at http://www.americancoldwarvets.org/
our message forum at http://americancoldwarvets.aimoo.com/
and our membership page at http://americancoldwarvets.onefireplace.org/
Join us in our quest to honor all veterans of the Cold War, most expecially those who paid the
ultimate sacrifice, laid down their lives to protect freedom and America.
There was a bill in the Senate, S.1097 The Cold War Medal that got as far as the Senate Armed Services Committee, where it lay there gathering dust. Unfortunately it never got out of committee.
Now that the elections are over and Congress is in recess until January, we have to start again with a push, a large push. Everyone please write, call, fax your senators and represeentatives. Ask them to please introduce legislation to direct DOD to issue a Cold War Victory Medal. Have it included in the National Defense Authorization Act 2009, or to introduce a stand alone bill.
The Cold War Veterans of our country deserve to be recognized and remembered for their honorable and distingushed service to the United States. Those who gave their lives to protect American, and the defeat of Communism.
You were there, youy know the truth, even if the general public thnks it was "peace time" and
nothing happened. No shots were fired is something we hear very often, but it is not true. Lives were lost, there are still MIA/POW's that need to be accounted for.
Thank you to all veterans of every era, our current military, and those to come who will carry on
the tradition.
Jerald Terwilliger
Vice Chairman
American Cold War Veterans
www.americancoldwarvets.org
"We Remember"
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