RE:Cold War Letter Rejection Letter
(Date Posted:12/30/2008 10:43:17)
Rob, your letter to Secretary Gates got "staffed." He never saw the letter -- here is how it works. Mail to SECDEF goes to his office and is reviewed by the staff of the EXECSEC (Executive Secretary), who is the traffic cop for correspondence -- he/she decides whether the SUBJECT matter requires the SECDEF's personal attention (99% of incoming does not) or whether it is to be "staffed out" (goes to a staff office for reply). So your letter went to Army Personnel Command (the Alexandria, Virginia return address is miles from the Pentagon) and this is the same office that administers the certificate program. Thus, you got the party line.
"The Cold War is regarded as the period in history beginning at the end of World War ll until the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991."
JUST A PERIOD IN HISTORY. Like the Great Depression or the Industrial Revolution, or the Roaring Twenties.
Someday, they may speak of the GWOT as a "period in history."
We need to get to someone above the LTC's pay grade -- someone who can think outside the bioler plate. That means US Senators and media people. We have to change the thinking of important people, and that will take a long-term campaign.
Thank you, Rob. Keep pushing, never give up!
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