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December 2008
Dear Friends of our Beloved K-9 Veterans,
I hope that this report finds you and yours well and good, and that this awesome season of joy and thanksgiving is bringing you cause to laugh and smile at a time of much distress for our Country. For me personally, I never tire of the smell of a juicy turkey cooking, and all the great lights and decorations of Christmas. And of course I do also hope that all of you gave some thought to the fact that dogs are veterans back when Veterans Day was celebrated.
In the past I have mentioned that the gathering of petition signatures is important to our mission, and many of you have increased your efforts to gather additional signatures. Petitions have come in from way over in the Netherlands, and from the Quad Cities German Shepherd Club, the Blount County Animal Shelter, Amvets of Harrison, PA (they sent a ton of signatures), and many individuals. The Northern Neck Kennel Club, and the Animal Welfare League of the Northern Neck of Virginia, continues to set the standard here for all of us, as they gather names at all of their events, and carry support ads in their publications. More of you need to get involved in signature gathering, and this season is the perfect time to get signatures from friends and family during Christmas parties, and other gatherings.
We have begun to consider making a trip to Washington to personally speak with Senators in hopes of getting one or more to submit a bill for the creation of K9 Veterans Day, and I will be taking the petitions with me. You can help with this by directly calling your own Senators to ask if they would be willing to meet with me. We are tentatively looking at being in Washington in October. Calls from people like you, who support this effort in their own state, are far more effective than getting one from me, in another state. And be sure to make it known to your Senators that all we want is a day, and that no federal money will be needed. We just need them to create the bill and submit it to the Congress.
Something else that you can do to help our overall effort, is to help us to get roughly 30 easels. You see, we have this traveling display of historical photos of our dogs at work throughout the years of our many wars, but we lack a proper way to display them. Easels are the simple, basically inexpensive, way to do this. They travel without taking up much space, are cheaper to ship when needed, and easily replaced when necessary. If you or your group can take this on as a project to purchase one or more easels, it would really help. And along those same lines, you may want to consider having the display at your event. And I am available to travel with the display to speak about it, and our mission for K9 Veterans Day. I am also working at putting together a video that you may want to use.
If it is in your heart to help financially with travel to Washington, and expenses that I have been supplying from my own personal funds, it too would be greatly appreciated. Now I know that it has been made known that no money is being raised for our mission, as this memorial does not need money to build it. We just need a bill for K9 Veterans Day to be put through Congress. But we all know that the phone, literature, travel, easels, and more, do in fact cost money.
It would also be a good thing to update our mailing list, as these mailings need only to go out to those of you who really care about K9 Veterans Day. So, if you would simply reply to this email, no text is necessary, I will put you on our new mailing list. And all future mailings for K9 Veterans Day will be sent to you from our new email address - k9veteransday@aol.com
And finally, my Wife Sally and I want to wish all of you a blessed Christmas, and an even better New Year.
Sincerely,
Joe
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