VoteVets.org Sends One Across the Bow

[kpete]

VoteVets.org Sends One Across the Bow
by Brandon Friedman
Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 09:12:35 PM PST

At VoteVets, we’re gearing up for a yearlong fight. An important part of this plan includes the expansion of VetVoice, our community blog for troops and veterans. So to reach further into this community, we added three new writers this week. Alex Horton (creator of Army of Dude), LT Nixon (currently in Baghdad), and RockRichard (a Kossack currently in Afghanistan) have all come on board. You can read their bios here.

To go with that, we’ve gotten a little publicity in the traditional media. In fact, today, the Fayetteville Observer (which has 70,000 daily readers in the Ft. Bragg and Pope AFB communities) published a nice piece on VetVoice today.

But the significant thing about this piece wasn’t just that we were covered. It’s the quotes they chose to put on the front page.

This is significant because Fayetteville and Ft. Bragg are home to the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, as well as the United States Army Special Operations Command. It's



http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/18/01114/2329/645/438701

[JNelson6563]

1. The worm is turning

Good quotes on that front page. Hopefully we'll see more of this spilling into the corporate owned media and more actual people will see it.

Julie

[MethuenProgressive]

2. http://www.vetvoice.com/

If you appreciate VoteVets.org, you'll enjoy this project of theirs:
http://www.vetvoice.com/

[mopinko]

3. just fucking awesome.

i guess this is what the left gets for actually supporting the troops. not like the left didn;t support the troops in viet nam. it was a lie that they didn't.
but,
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[countryjake]

4. kick