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beachmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 02:23 PM
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Moving story of a disabled vet who met President Clinton yesterday
Now most people know that my allegiance this primary season lays elsewhere, but I can vouch for DailyKos's TestVet6778 as a real hero and activist. He had good reason to want to get an autograph from President Clinton:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/18/91819/916/355/423728

I was invited to meet with President Clinton due to my participation in the Steering Committee for Military & Veterans for Hillary on December 17, 2007.

I received the e mail on Sunday telling me when and where to be, it was not a campaign stop, rather he wanted to meet with and thank a group of homeless veterans that were in a VA sponsored program at the Alston Wilkes Society trying to get their lives back together.

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I tried explaining I was supposed to be with the "political types" and the Director told me not to worry about it, I was a disabled veteran and he wanted me to stay with the vets and meet President Clinton with them. I quickly learned why, the President spent 3-5 minutes speaking with each of us, there was a lot of laughter and plenty of pictures.

I asked him to autograph my book about the Edgewood experiments written by DR James Ketchum Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten that I had purchased from DR Ketchum and he had signed it, I just thought it was appropriate for the President that had finally acknowledged the immoral experiments and had publicly apologized for them should also autograph it.

The apology can be viewed here it is about 30 seconds

More information on the experiments can be seen the CIA Mind Control experiments

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Most of my regular readers know my wife is republican (hey no marriage is perfect) but after meeting with Bill Clinton and watching him interact with me, and his offer to help with the Veterans Administration, followed up by his aide giving me his business card with an e mail address to contact them with the evidence and how they can help. She was very impressed, with him, which is to say a lot. She even admitted as how she might even have to vote for Hillary, she feels if Hillary is even half the person Bill is then the nation will be far better off than in the hands of another republican.

You all know I don't get out of the house much, but the trip yesterday afternoon was well worth the trouble. You know those people that spend 10,000 to meet with the Presidents? I got to do it for free, drank coffee and had some good fellowship with other vets, and now most of my neighbors are probably scratching their heads wondering why I was in a homeless shelter meeting the President. ROFL


Please go to the link for the diary to get all pertinent links to what happened to TestVet. Thanks to TestVet for fighting all of these years for other vets, and to President Clinton for doing the right thing. The Democratic Party will always be the party that has veterans' backs.


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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 02:35 PM
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1. Excellent story!
Thanks for posting. :hi:
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beachmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 04:15 PM
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2. No problem, Shaniqua6392. There is so much negativity, that
it is always nice to read a heartfelt story.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 04:34 PM
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3. nice, nice story. :) Thank you.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 09:47 PM
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4. Great story
Any Democrat will always be better than any Republican. It's nice for Bill to do that.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 09:52 PM
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5. That's my Bill!
Thanks for the story! :)
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 01:36 AM
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6. Thank you for the story,
but since it's a positive post about Clinton it figures that only 5 people responded. :eyes:
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beachmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 10:11 AM
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7. Well, I am wondering where the main Hillary supporters are.
Maybe they rec'd but didn't comment. Also, I posted it in the Kerry forum, too, since that crowd is very sentimental about vets, and I think some of them rec'd it, too. The Hillary forum isn't as active, I guess, because my post in there only got 5 views.

I was hoping this thread would turn into a "story" thread, but alas, it didn't.
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