steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (03/18/85)
** Santa Cruz Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5888 is "99% certain" to get kicked out of the VFW organization. They wrote a letter opposing US intervention in Central America. The VFW is a traditional and consertive organization whose national policy is to support US policy in Centeral America. It is not surprising in Santa Cruz county, of course, last year's Santa Cruz mayor was a gay socialist, there are two colleges full of students, and there is always plenty of left wing political activity going on. However, there is a sidelight this is very strange. Here is part of an article from the "Santa Cruz Seninel" March 17, 1985 p. 1: For someone who has been a longtime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the resolution opposing U.S. intervention in Central America by local Post 5888 might be seen as a betrayal of VFW traditions. The national VFW leadership might revoke the post's charter as punishment for its action. But something else is happening, too. [sic] World War II veterans, long considered the standard bearers of national VFW policy, are joining the post since the resolution was made public. . . . . . . . the nature of the local membership has chaged dramatically. . . . "85-90 percent of our members used to be Vietnam vets. Now we have a 50-50 balance with the World War II men that have signed up, many of them for the first time." ------------------------------------------ That is pretty much the opposite of what my presuppositions would lead me to expect. --- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta -\ 109 Torrey Pine Terr. ucbvax!twg --> scc!steiny Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 fortune!idsvax -/