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Dear Editor: One of the recent Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer mailings started showing up on my voice messaging right away: "Isn't that your back on Jack's mailing?" I went and looked more closely, and sure enough, it was. Pallmeyer, face to the camera, is hugging me, with his hand on my back, on the back of my Veterans for Peace tee shirt. Jack's got my back. I was drafted and served as an army medic during Vietnam, a war that many of us believed at the time was wrong or hadgone wrong. I can't adequately explain the rage I felt a few years back when Robert McNamera, Vietnam era Secretary of Defense,came out publicly and said something like, "Well, gee, well uh, yeah, we knew we shouldn't be there at the time, but well,gee, uh, I'm sorry." Watching what's happening in Iraq, and here at home because of it, in this context is virtually unbearable. Anyone who's been in the military deeply knows the meaning of, "I've got your back." Jack Nelson -Pallmeyer wasspeaking out about how wrong this invasion of Iraq and its impact on our economy would be for us and the world long before it actually happened, and I can't bear the thought of someone from the Bush administration 30 years from now saying, "Well, gee, well uh, . . ." I'm supporting Pallmeyer to win against Norm Coleman because Coleman's support of Bush policies is nothing buttalking dangerously behind our backs. Jack's got my back. Jack's got your back -- even if you disagree in the moment on the details. Larry Johnson
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