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"Legionnaires Condemn War Protests, Pledge HONOLULU, August 23, 2005 - Delegates to the nation’s largest wartime veterans organization meeting here in national convention today vowed to use whatever means necessary to ensure the united support of the American people for our troops and the global war on terrorism. ... The resolution passed unanimously by 4,000 delegates... “No one respects the right to protest more than one who has fought for it, but we hope that Americans will present their views in correspondence to their elected officials rather than by public media events guaranteed to be picked up and used as tools of encouragement by our enemies,“ Cadmus said. “It would be tragic if the freedoms our veterans fought so valiantly to protect would be used against their successors today as they battle terrorists bent on our destruction."

This is wrong on so many levels it defies explanation. Suffice it to say that Thomas P. Cadmus sounds more like a latter day brown shirt than he does a veteran defender of freedom. Perhaps the legionaires swilled too much booze in Hawaii and were well beyond three sheets to the wind when the vote on this fascist proposal was taken.

I do know that this USAF veteran (1959-66, all active duty) is thankful that he never had the urge to join such a group of misguided fools.