UMWA’s Roberts: Nation Must ‘Keep Its Promise’ to Vets

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/01/21/umwas-roberts-nation-must-keep-its-promise-to-vets/

UMWA’s Roberts: Nation Must ‘Keep Its Promise’ to Vets

by Mike Hall, Jan 21, 2007

Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts says the nation has an “ethical and moral obligation to do better” for the nation’s veterans.

Roberts, a Vietnam vet, told the Commission on the Future for America’s Veterans:

These brave men and women answered their country’s call and in doing so have left parts and pieces of themselves on battlefields across the world. Our nation promised to take care of their health care in return for their fight for freedom and America must keep its promise to them.

The Jan. 16, Charleston, W.Va., town hall meeting was part of the group’s effort to determine the needs of veterans 20 years down the road and develop recommendations on how the federal government can meet those needs and obligations.

For more information, click here and read more about the meeting from The Charleston Gazette here: http://wvgazette.com/section/Today/2007011613?pt=0