SPIRITUAL
WARRIOR
MIA - in LAOS Since 1972
CPT. GEORGE D. MACDONALD
I want to honor a web
site that has been fighting for answers to the basic questions surrounding the
MIA issues. In this particular web site, the plight of Air Force Captain
George D. Macdonald is championed by a young advocate - Jennifer
Martinez. She has been walking the point with this issue for about a
decade. She has been very active in helping families and veterans of the Vietnam War.
She was recently appointed to "The Vietnam Veteran Support Network" - becoming not
only the youngest member, and the only women to serve in this select group - but
she also is the only non-veteran ever allowed to assist in this organization.
She is a special young angel and this web site wants to call attention to her
work and promote her web site and it's cause. Below is an excerpt from one of my
first emails with Jennifer.
Here's a bit about me incase you're wondering about my interest
in the war. As a teenager in the early to mid 1980's, I became very interested
in the war. I didn't hear much about it and what I did hear was usually
negative. I felt there had to be more to it than that and for some reason,
became consumed with the quest for knowledge and understanding. To this day
I'm still deeply interested, my research and study continues. I do this alone
by reading, networking with other vets and researching online. After several
years of this, I reached the conclusion that these brave men needed to be
remembered, it seemed as if know one cared. So I do my best to think of them
and remember them. I discovered the POW/MIA issue through my research and
became involved with that. I felt then, and feel now, that these missing men
and their families need all the help they can get.
People always ask me how a young girl (I'm 34 now, not so young
anymore) such as myself became so involved with the Vietnam War and the
POW/MIA issue and that's a hard question for me to answer. There wasn't any
one thing that triggered it, it was almost as if it were a calling. I just got
it into my head that this was something I needed to study. There have been
several times throughout the years that I have taken a break from both the War
and the POW/MIA issue, but then I get that strong feeling again, kind of
nagging at me to get back into it. It won't go away until I become involved
again. So here I am...
Jennifer Martinez - VETERAN ANGEL
VISIT HER WEB SITE CALLED:
CPT.
GEORGE D. MACDONALD
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