Vets Back Man in Trouble Over Protest (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Vets Back Man in Trouble Over Protest

By SAM HANANEL
The Associated Press
Friday, June 1, 2007; 2:42 PM

WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest combat veterans group
on Friday urged the military to "exercise a little common
sense" and call off its investigation of a group of Iraq war
veterans who wore their uniforms during anti-war protests.

"Trying to hush up and punish fellow Americans for exercising
the same democratic right we're trying to instill in Iraq is not
what we're all about," said Gary Kurpius, national commander
of the 2.4 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars.

"Someone in the Marine Corps needs to exercise a little
common sense and put an end to this matter before it turns
into a circus," Kurpius said.

A military panel in Kansas City, Mo., is holding a hearing on
Monday to decide whether Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh's
discharge status should be changed from honorable to "other
than honorable" after he was photographed wearing fatigues
_ with military insignia removed _ during a mock patrol with
other veterans at a protest rally in April.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060101060.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. Elizabeth, this is the big one

I can't believe I'm actually agreeing with the VFW about anything. I did my time, am a VFW, but told them to take me off their mailing list as long as they thought it appropriate to suck bush's cock in public. Surely to Christ Almighty, the Marine Corps has enough on their plate without fucking with a man who just happens to be on the right side of the Iraqi War argument.

[Karenina]

2. Kokesh is NOT AFRAID of them

AND he's photogenic :swoon: AND he's CORRECT. He's a REAL MARINE!!!

[BikeWriter]

3. Yee haw!

[myrna minx]

4. K&R. What a brave man! n/t