Veterans Day

On Veterans Day, we honor veterans, including my late father. My father volunteered the Army the day after Pearl Harbor, joining the 82nd Airborne Division, making three combat jumps, the last in Normandy at 1 AM on D-Day. He was wounded in the knee with Nazi shrapnel, hospitalized, with shrpnel in his knee until he died.

Today on Veterans' Day we remember our veterans' sacrifices, hoping and praying they were not in vain.

My dad never believed the Warren Commission report on the JFK murder. In 1964, he asked the eight top marksmen in the 82nd if they could have made the shot Oswald allegedly made -- every one of them said no. Dad read all of the books he could on the JFK murder, and often spoke on radio about the fact that there had to have been a conspiracy, it being impossible for one man to have fired those bullets.

Today, only a quarter of Americans believe the Warren Commission report, and some 75% agree with my dad that there was a conspiracy to murder JFK.

To honor my dad,who was relentless in pursuit of truth, the South Jersey Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Divn. Assn. is named for my dad, the Edward A. Slavin Chapter.

Today, documents on the JFK murder are still being held, while our government spies on us in violation of our Fourteenth Amendment rights. Enough.

In the words of Senator Albert Gore, Sr. on Election Night 1970, "The truth shall rise again."