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148 Military Brass and Veteran Luminaries Endorse John Kerry for Commander-in-Chief; Kerry-Edwards Campaign Announces Veterans National Steering Committee
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2004-09-25, BLUELINE EDITORIAL LLC - 148 Military Brass and Veteran Luminaries Endorse John Kerry for Commander-in-Chief; Kerry-Edwards Campaign Announces Veterans National Steering CommitteeLas Vegas, NV (PRWEB) September 27, 2004 -- The Kerry-Edwards campaign announced its National Veterans for Kerry Steering Committee. Co-chairman Edward Baca, a lieutenant general and the former Chief of the National Guard Bureau, made the announcement in Las Vegas in advance of John Kerry’s address to the General Conference and Exhibition of the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS). Baca said “The strength of this National Steering Committee speaks to the confidence and commitment of America’s military brass, veteran leaders and decorated soldiers, that John Kerry will make a strong Commander-in-Chief.” The committee includes veteran luminaries: generals, admirals, former VSO commanders, Medal of Honor winners, and elected officials from both the Democratic and Republican parties. “John Kerry has not only served in battle for our country, he has shown resolve in ensuring that our veterans get the support they deserve after they leave the battlefield,” said Baca. “While Bush has been figuring out ways to cut funding for veterans health, John Kerry has been working to streamlines veterans’ health care and end the unfair disability tax that hurts those who need help the most." The National Veterans for Kerry Steering Committee comprises 38 federally elected officials, 37 generals and admirals, 11 former National Commanders of Veteran Service Organizations, and 6 non-commissioned officers. These individuals are joined by many Prisoners of War and honored veterans from wars in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. Senator Kerry`s crewmates and Swift Boat veterans will also serve on the steering committee, along with members of Easy Company and Tuskegee Airmen. Baca is joined on the committee by co-chairpersons Claudia Kennedy and Senator Daniel Inouye. Kennedy is the first and only woman to have earned the flag rank of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, serving for 31 years. She is one of 12 women on the steering committee. Inouye, a seven-term Senator from Hawaii, earned the Congressional Medal of Honor with the U.S. Army in 1945 while leading his platoon in Italy. Among other military leaders co-chairing this committee are: retired Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark, former Senator Bob Kerrey, General Tony McPeak, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili and William Crowe, Medal of Honor recipients Paul Bucha and Hershel "Woody" Williams, former Senator Max Cleland, and Congressman Charles Rangel. The co-chairs are committed to sharing John Kerry’s vision to win the peace in Iraq and his plan to assure that American soldiers won’t make up 90 percent of the casualties and American tax payers will not bear 90 percent of the burden for this war. Senator Kerry also has detailed a plan to provide assistance to those who have put their lives on the line in battle. Kerry’s Military Family Bill of Rights would ensure that all military reservists have health care. These committed veterans will join the 50 Kerry Edwards veterans state coordinators in organizing 1 million veterans nationwide to elect a John Kerry a combat veteran with a plan to put America’s soldiers first in the White House. Veterans for Kerry-Edwards National Steering Committee Co-Chairs Lt. General Edward Baca (ret.) USA New Mexico Paul Bucha Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient New York General Wesley Clark (ret.) USA, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO Arkansas Fmr. Senator Max Cleland USA Georgia Admiral William Crowe (ret.) Fmr. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff USN Oklahoma Senator Daniel Inouye Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient USA Hawaii Lt. General Claudia Kennedy (ret.) USA Virginia Fmr. Senator Bob Kerrey Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient USN President, New School University Nebraska General Merrill “Tony” McPeak (ret.) Fmr. Air Force Chief of Staff USAF Oregon Congressman Charles Rangel USA New York General John Shalikashvili (ret.) Fmr. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff USA Washington Hershel “Woody” Williams Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient USMC West Virginia Steering Committee Master Sergeant Manuel Almeida (ret.) USA New Jersey David Alston USN, Gunner’s Mate PCF 94 South Carolina Lee Archer WWII – Tuskegee Airmen Army Air Corp., USAF New York Congressman Joseph Baca USA California Phyllis Bachman Past President, American Legion Auxiliary North Carolina Skip Barker USN, Skipper, PCF 31 Alabama Rand Beers Fmr. Special Asst. and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism, National Security Council USMC Washington, D.C. Dr. Sam Billison WWII, Navajo Code Talker USMC New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman USA Reserves New Mexico Congressman Leonard Boswell USA Iowa Major General Jack Bradshaw (ret.) USA Illinois Rear Admiral Herbert Bridge (ret.) USN Reserves Washington Dr. Roscoe Brown WWII – Tuskegee Airmen Army Air Corp. New York Brigadier General Rosetta Burke (ret.) Army National Guard New York Phillip Butler, PhD Prisoner of War, Vietnam USN Oklahoma Betty Calder Past President, American Legion Auxiliary Arizona State Senator Terry Care USA Nevada John Carney Past National Commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars USN Florida Senator Thomas Carper USN Delaware Rear Admiral William “Bill” Center (ret.) USN Washington Colonel Roxanne Cheney (ret.) USMC South Carolina Lt. General Daniel Christman (ret.) USA Ohio Ronald Conley Past National Commander, American Legion USAF Pennsylvania Sergeant Major Keith Cook (ret.) USA North Carolina Senator John Corzine USMC Reserves New Jersey John H. Dalton Fmr. Secretary of the Navy USN Texas Brigadier General Tom Daniels (ret.) USAF, Air National Guard Texas Colonel Thomas Davis (ret.) USA Virginia Jimmy Dean Past National Commander, American Legion USA Mississippi Congressman William Delahunt U.S. Coast Guard Massachusetts Brigadier General Richard DeMara (ret.) USA Michigan Bill Detweiler Past National Commander, American Legion USA Louisiana Senator Christopher Dodd USA Reserves Connecticut Major General Donald Edwards (ret.) Army National Guard Vermont Congressman Bob Etheridge USA North Carolina Congressman Lane Evans USMC Illinois Mack Flemming Fmr. Staff Director, House Veterans Affairs Committee USA South Carolina Brigadier General Evelyn “Pat” Foote (ret.) USA Maryland Major General James Fretterd (ret.) USA Maryland Alice Galka Past President, American Legion Auxiliary Indiana Congressman Richard Gephardt Air National Guard Missouri Fmr. Senator John Glenn USMC Ohio Hershel Gober Fmr. Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs USMC Arkansas Congressman Charlie Gonzalez Air National Guard Texas Dick Grenier Prisoner of War, Korea USA Maine Rear Admiral Roland Guilbault (ret.) USN Florida Vice Admiral Lee F. Gunn (ret.) USN California Forrest Guth WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Delaware Dr. John Hardebeck Past National Commander, China-Burma-India Veterans Affairs Army Air Corp California Senator Tom Harkin USN Iowa Steve Hatch USN, Boatswain’s Mate, PCF 44 New York Major General Charles Henry (ret.) USA Kentucky Silvestre Herrera Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient USA Texas Congressman Maurice Hinchey USN New York General Joseph Hoar (ret.) USMC Florida Senator Ernest F. Hollings USA South Carolina Rear Admiral John Hutson (ret.) USN New Hampshire Major General Randolph “Randy” Jayne (ret.) Air National Guard Virginia Congressman William Jefferson USA Louisiana Ed Joint WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Pennsylvania Robert Jones Fmr. Director, AMVETS USA Maryland Jack Jones WWII – Navajo Code Talker USMC New Mexico Sergeant Major Ray Jones (ret.) USA Georgia Major General Nicholas Kafkalas (ret.) Army National Guard Pennsylvania Mary Lou Keener Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary Air Force USN , USAF Reserves Georgia Senator Edward Kennedy USA Massachusetts Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr (ret.) USA, Army Reserves California Lt. General Donald Kerrick (ret.) Fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor USA Florida Judy Droz Keyes Gold Star Widow Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP California Young Oak Kim WWII – 442nd Regimental Combat Team California Barbara Kranig Past President, American Legion Auxillary Wisconsin Keith Kruse Past National Commander, American Legion USA Wisconsin Governor Ted Kulongoski USMC Oregon Senator Frank Lautenberg USA New Jersey Joseph Lesniewski WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Pennsylvania Clancy Lyall WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Maryland Ray Mabus Fmr. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Fmr. Governor USN Mississippi Brigadier General Donald McAuliffe (ret.) USAF North Carolina Earl McClung WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Colorado Richard “Dick” McCool Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient USN Washington Congressman Jim McDermott USN Washington Brigadier General David L. McGinnis (ret.) USA, Army National Guard Virginia Michael Medeiros USN, Quartermaster, PCF 94 California Ray Miller Chair, National Association of Black Veterans USAF Washington Major General Melvyn Montano (ret.) Army National Guard New Mexico John Moon Past Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars USMC Ohio Bobby Muller Veteran’s Advocate USMC New York Congressman John Murtha USMC Pennsylvania Senator Bill Nelson USA Reserves Florida Richard O’Dell Fmr. National Officer, Vietnam Veterans of America USA Virginia Dr. Sandra Ortega USAF New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell USA New Jersey William Perry Fmr. Secretary of Defense USA Pennsylvania Douglas “Pete” Peterson Fmr. Ambassador of Vietnam, Fmr. Congressman USAF Florida Master Sergeant Phillip Potter (ret.) USMC Pennsylvania Darrell “Shifty” Powers WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Virginia Jim Rassmann USA, Mike Force Officer, 5th Special Forces Group Oregon Senator Jack Reed USA Rhode Island Joe Reeder Under Secretary of the Army USA Washington Brigadier General Virgil A. Richards (ret.) USA Texas Larry Rivers Past Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars USMC Louisiana Pat Runyon USN, Engineman, PCF 71 Ohio Major General Gerald Sajer (ret.) USA National Guard Pennsylvania Wade Sanders USN, Skipper, PCF 98 California Del Sandusky USN, Lead Petty Officer, PCF 94 Florida Congressman Robert “Bobby” Scott Army National Guard Virginia Congressman Jose Serrano USA New York Vice Admiral John Shanahan (ret.) USN Washington, DC Fred Short USN, Gunner’s Mate, PCF 94 Arkansas Jeffrey Smith Fmr. General Counsel, CIA USA Washington, DC Congressman Vic Snyder USMC Arkansas Senior Master Sergeant John Soltero (ret.) USAF Arizona Congressman John Spratt USA South Carolina Congressman Pete Stark USAF California Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman (ret.) USPHS/US Coast Guard Washington Percy Sutton WWII – Tuskegee Airmen Army Air Corp New York Richard Swartz USA Florida Congressman John Tanner USN Tennessee Brigadier General Preston Taylor (ret.) USAF New Jersey Bruce Thiesen Past National Commander, American Legion California Gene Thorson USN – Engineman, PCF 94 Iowa Congressman Edolphus Towns USA New York Tracy Droz Tragos Filmmaker – Be Good, Smile Pretty California Congressman Jim Turner USA Texas Admiral Stansfield Turner (ret.) USN Maryland Colonel Lew Tyree (ret.) USA Reserves West Virginia Master Sergeant John Valdez (ret.) USMC California Lionel Van Deerlin Fmr. Congressman USA California Jerry Waldie Fmr. Congressman USA California Jim Wasser USN, Lead Petty Officer, PCF 44 Illinois Brigadier General Robert Westphal (ret.) Army National Guard Washington Drew Whitlow USN – Boatswain’s Mate, PCF 44 Arkansas General Johnnie Wilson (ret.) USA Ohio William Wingett WWII – 101st Airborne, Easy Company USA Oregon Brigadier General Jack Yeager (ret.) Army National Guard West Virginia Bill Zaladonis USN, Engineman, PCF 44 Florida
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