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(Date Posted:02/08/2008 12:44:20)

Is the Medal name Important to you?

The results will not be used to determine policy. It is a simple exercise to take the pulse of our members and supporters.

It must be a Victory Medal(22)
It must be designated a Campaign Medal with VA preference!(31)
Any Medal recognizing the Cold War is Okay.(98)
I don't care about the Medal. I'd rather have a Day of Rememberance and a monument(2)

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Paul V. Dudkowski
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US Navy, 1973 to 1978
"Dedicated to the Cause"

NuclearVeteran
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RE:Is the Medal name Important to you?
(Date Posted:10/23/2008 17:58:55)

 Yes it is. The enemy could issue a "Cold War Service Medal". Only implies you served in the Cold War.
"Cold War Victory Medal" says I served and we won!
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RE:Is the Medal name Important to you?
(Date Posted:10/23/2008 18:09:40)

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RE:Is the Medal name Important to you?
(Date Posted:10/25/2008 14:20:12)

That is why a 'Cold War Victory Medal" will NEVER happen.  We do not want to rub it in to the former Commies who were defeated.
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RE:Is the Medal name Important to you?
(Date Posted:09/21/2009 06:02:13)

Much talk here in the month of September 2009 refering to this Poll. By posting to it, it brings it back up front for the new folks to see and remind the rest of us what the reults were.

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Paul V. Dudkowski
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RE:Is the Medal name Important to you?
(Date Posted:09/21/2009 22:18:30)

Thanks for posting that.  I see most don't care what the medal is called as long as we get one.  I also notice that most prefer to call it some campaign medal over a victory medal by only a few points, kind of even there.

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Re:Is the Medal name Important to you?
(Date Posted:09/22/2009 16:35:10)

Stick with service medal, not victory medal.
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The American Cold War Veterans is a nonpartisan 501c nonprofit veterans service organization incorporated in the State of Florida and founded on August 18, 2007 at The Truman Library in Independence, MO. As a group we are dedicated to all of our Brother and Sister Veterans, with special dedication to those who served during the Cold War era September 1945 to December 1991. Our Mission is to bring respect, recognition and awareness to Veterans of the Cold War era no matter what branch of service, whether active duty, reserve or National Guard. We are committed to honoring the sacrifices made by millions of American men and women during the Cold War, especially those who paid the ultimate price of life or liberty. We intend to see that the Cold War's history is completely and accurately understood by people everywhere. We are united in these goals and speak with one voice.

NDAA 2002 - FACT


The NDAA 2002 was passed by congress October 2001 signed into Law Dec. 28 2001, In the NDAA that was approved by both houses, signed into law by the President, was the Sense of Congress to authorize the Campaign Medal for service in the Cold War.

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2002

115 STAT. 1118 PUBLIC LAW 107–107—DEC. 28, 2001 Code, that the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to that individual is warranted and that a waiver of time restrictions prescribed by law for recommendation for such award is recommended.

SEC. 556. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ISSUANCE OF CERTAIN MEDALS.
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should consider authorizing—

  1. the issuance of a campaign medal, to be known as the Korea Defense Service Medal, to each person who while a member of the Armed Forces served in the Republic of Korea, or the waters adjacent thereto, during the period beginning on July 28, 1954, and ending on such date thereafter as the Secretary considers appropriate;

  2. the issuance of a campaign medal, to be known as the Cold War Service Medal, to each person who while a member of the Armed Forces served satisfactorily on active duty during the Cold War; and

  3. the award of the Vietnam Service Medal to any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for participation in military operations designated as Operation Frequent Wind arising from the evacuation of Vietnam on April 29 and 30, 1975.


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