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We, as military veterans, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others both nationally and internationally.

To increase public awareness of the causes and costs of war.

To restrain our governments from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations.

To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons.

To seek justice for veterans and victims of war.

To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

For More Information (Including how to become a member): www.veteransforpeace.org

THE PENTAGON HAS BILLION$ TO SPEND ON WAR. OUR CHAPTER HAS ONLY OUR DUES AND YOUR DONATIONS TO SPEND ON PEACE.
PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION BY CHECK MAILED TO THE ADDRESS BELOW.
THANK YOU!

Join us for the weekly vigil at Pack Square/Former Vance Monument, Tuesdays from 4:30pm to 5:30pm.
MONTHLY MEETING TIME: The Third Tuesday of each month from 6:00PM to no later than 7:00PM. Land of the Sky United Church of Christ, 15 Overbrook Place, Asheville. All are welcome; please join us. Call Gerry Werhan: (704.957.2924)

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Handout for WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 on October 4, 2022

 Excerpts from remarks by Rusty Sivils, a Western North Carolina VFP member:

     I appreciate your thanking for my service, and since you have, I will tell you what my service was. I spent three years in the army helping my country to murder a couple of million women and children, (and that is a conservative estimate of the number of civilians the the U.S. military killed in Viet Nam).   

  Today the “defense” budget is officially $839 billion (or about $93 million an hour), which is even bigger than Biden asked for, although if all the programs that are not in the official budget are included, such as the Veterans Administration, the nuclear arms program, military pensions and others, the figure is around $1.4 trillion a year.

     If you really want to thank me for my service, you could, for instance, find ways to stop paying war taxes (you could consult the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee at WWW.nwtrcc.org). If you continue to pay them, your children will not die as a result, but someone else’s children will, as the US continues to fuel and supply and profit from wars around the world, like in Yemen and Ukraine,

To join Veterans for Peace, or to sign up for VFP e-News, go to: https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Chapter 099 - Western North Carolina Website: www.vfp099.org  
Facebook: Veterans for Peace Chapter 099
Email: president@vfp099.org
Mailing address: VFP Chapter 099, PO Box 1024, Asheville NC 28802

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