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Moms like Cindy Sheehan need World Service Corps legislation passed

by Dwayne Hunn (dwayne [at] dwaynehunn.biz)
If the nation wants fewer Camp Casey’s and grieving moms in its future, then create law that gives the nation a patriotic, peaceful, productive service that reduces misunderstanding, ignorance, suffering, terrorists, and uniformed policies. Push Congress to pass the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals into law.
Moms like Cindy Sheehan need World Service Corps legislation passed

By Dwayne Hunn

Several thousand grieving mothers and fathers, and multitudes of saddened relatives and friends, know a lot more about Cindy and Casey Sheehan, Camp Casey, and Crawford, Texas than they did on our flag waving 4th of July.

A woman who spent a lot of time pushing a vacuum in Vacaville is shaking flag-waving, legacy President, who has probably never stooped to vacuuming. Bush’s chess-meisster, accustomed to merely waving his Rovian hand to knock off, like mere pawns and rooks, Secretaries of Defense, Treasury, CIA, FBI, and news networks, seems befuddled by feudal moms camping on arid land.

Davida vesus Goliath. Little mom versus King George. Colored aprons teasing horned black limos. It’s great drama, perhaps turning an historical footnote into a chapter. The real loss of life behind the drama, however, makes many cry.

So how do we reduce the tears, the grieving parents, planted and stomped on white crosses, lost legs and arms, missing lives – both here and abroad? A meeting or non-meeting with the President, an exchange of words, and the subsequent media spin will not save future families from tasting more of the same. Today’s pains and tears come from bad intelligence that runs far deeper than not reading and reacting to State Department reports.

If you disdain the policies that sent loved ones into more than harm’s way, be assured that demonstrations won’t change the likelihood of following future uninformed policies. Only when millions of Americans from all income and power levels better understand the world, through hand-dirtying, first-hand experiences in it, will we dramatically reduce the number of policies that blindly take our loved ones’ lives and limbs.

How do we get enough first-hand American experiences to reduce dramatically the future number of uninformed, bloody policies?

A nationwide grassroots movement pushing Congress to introduce and pass the citizen-initiated World Service Corps Proposed Bill would:
• Save tens of thousands of future lives.
• Reduce the hatred and ugliness increasingly fired at our soldiers and all Americans.
• Reduce the skyrocketing and unsustainable cost of maintaining our military, which if unchecked will turn America into a second-class economy.
• Help make the world a better, safer, saner place, as idealized Americas are idolized as able to do.
• Allow a significant chunk of Americans to form their worldviews through serving in its pockets of need, and thereby have their own learned opinions later stand up to slanted or limited news sources.

If the WSC proposal were passed in Congress this year and signed into law, each of the next six years would see 100,000+ Americans volunteer to serve in their choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross and other similar organizations. By the sixth year, the world would be duly impressed seeing a million Americans working either here or abroad helping the needy, and building the world’s capacity to care peacefully for itself.

In gratitude, America’s rich and famous and those rich, powerful, and lightly taxed corporations, as well as our federal budget, would reward those who served with two years of community college plus two years of state college tuition, the equivalent pay down of educational loans, dedicate that amount to tuition costs of a relative, or place that amount in an IRA or Medical Savings Account. Details at http://www.worldservicecorps.us.

If you want to lose fewer sons, have fewer grieving Moms, then push your elected officials at all levels to introduce and pass the WSC legislation. Global villagers are neither complex nor dangerous when we do unto others, as we would like to be done to us.

When we fail to follow that golden rule, the global village becomes complicated and dangerous, especially to our goggled and armored soldiers.

If America’s grassroots activists push Congress to enact the WSC proposals into law, a million Americans will soon be changing the world at the grassroots level, and we will all live better, safer, saner lives.

As moms across the nation focus their thoughts on today’s sons and daughters, and worry about policies that may someday put them in harm’s way, pray that they push elected officials to adopt the World Service Corps proposal for the health of tomorrow’s sons and daughters.

By birthing the Peace Corps, John Kennedy showed the world his vision to invigorate America’s idealism with actions that would simultaneously enlighten America’s political IQ. Within ten years, he wanted the Peace Corps to have reached a million. Then, he felt, it would be making significant improvements in the state of the world. And he knew that the knowledge Returned PCVs would bring home would significantly improve the quality of America’s policies.

Today, only slightly over 175,000 Returned Peace Corps volunteers add to those significant differences for which Kennedy hoped.

In these increasingly dangerous times, where poverty, needs, explosives, and terrorists hide themselves well, it is time for mothers to circle the wagons and tell our government, “Given our sons, daughters and us grown-ups a patriotic, peaceful, and productive World Service Corps outlet that will, in bettering the world, make military service easier for our soldiers.”

“Give us World Service Corps legislation this year, Congress, so we won’t have future Camp Casey’s and mourning Cindy’s.”

Those of you outside of dusty Camp Casey can bring the WSC to life by being one of the tens of thousands needed to sign the on-line Petition at http://www.worldserivecorps.us. And you can do more by clicking the How-to-help link to make this citizen-initiated proposal become law.

Thanks for helping to put a million World Service Corps volunteers into the world so that tomorrow will be safer and healthier.

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