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OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Official Website
of the
United States Navy
Veterans
Association
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9 MILLION FANS AND COUNTING!
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unique visitors the Association
has had on all its websites,
this one, as well as all
our predecessor sites
dating back to the 1990s.
on March 27, 2006.
We support our Troops,
We support our Grunts,
We support our Swabs,
and always have, and always will.
War is a dirty, mean, messy business,
as every combat veteran knows.
War itself is never to be glorified.
But we believe that America is the best
country on earth.
We believe that America's manifest
destiny is
to light the lamp of liberty for
all the world to see.
And we are for America First.
And...WE ARE NAVY.
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and let's roll.
The
UNITED STATES NAVY
VETERANS ASSOCIATION
is an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(19)
war membership organization, fully tax-exempt with contributions fully tax-deductible. The Association is primarily
composed "of " naval veterans, and this extensive website was created "by" naval veterans, but both the Association and
this website are "for" all America and all Americans; and all those who appreciate America are welcome here.
This site belongs to YOU. It is for YOU, and
not selectively for some more defined group.
Don't live in fear of things you cannot control.
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be they opposed to ours, or in agreement with us, and to make your voice count.
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and non-governmental non-profit communities of the United States. Accordingly, we now post online the National Association's
Annual Report detailing in easy to read format the finances and achievements of the Association for the current year, as well as, separately,
the IRS Form 990s for the both the National Association and all its state chapters, when the latter become available. Less
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"The Navy of
the United States
is the right arm
of the United States."
- Teddy Roosevelt
THIS IS OUR HOMEPAGE FOR 2008, AND,
FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
OF THE YEAR 232.
 The boundaries of freedom for the United
States in the 21st Century no longer lie off the waters of Pearl Harbor or the East River of our beloved
New York, or at Barrow on our Arctic Ocean, or on our Gulf Coast.
All that ended with 9/11.
The vacation from foreign turmoil we enjoyed at
the end of the Cold War in 1991, a vacation which lasted for ten years, is over, America. We face new enemies.
It was a good vacation.
Now we need to wake up.
This is a New Frontier.
And that New Frontier of man's Freedom
is joined today wherever the enemies of little girls going to school, those who want to sell drugs, those who hate the United
States, those who preach Islamic fascism, and those who preach hatred or seek the destruction or alienation of our
freedom of speech, of worship, or of movement, want it to be joined.
Bring Them On.
This is the real New Frontier.
And, speaking for the membership of the
United States Navy Veterans Association,
We are Ready.
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UNITED STATES NAVY VETERANS ASSOCIATION
2008-2009 National Association Directors and Key Officers:
All United States Navy Veterans Association Directors and Officers
serve without compensation.
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
| Jack Nimitz |
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In his campaign statement for
election as National Director, Jack said he "... does not like to pull rank ...has a lack of admiration for those who do on
the officers' boards of other veterans' organizations, opposes an elitist approach to what is or what is not good for American
national security, welcomes all opinions, and seeks an Association with an expanding, and young, membership." Jack also suports
the REAL ID Act as providing a required, and additional, measure to American national security.
Jack is a lifelong resident of Texas.
Bob's
comments on public affairs, national security and veterans' issues, have been featured in the Tampa
Tribune, and on the PBS-TV Show (WEDU-TV Tampa) 'Tampa Bay Week' and on WTVT-TV (Fox-TV Tampa) and in the national media.
In his duties with the Association,
Bob works actively in both program services and in organizational development. He is one of the featured speakers on veterans
and their history in the Association's free National Speaking Program for schools and churches.In addition to being a member
of the United States Navy Veterans Association, he is also an honorary member of the Royal Naval Association as well
as a number of other British naval societies, honors he was awarded in part because of his substantial work for and
dedication to the cause of the Anglo-American naval services, their histories, traditions and the alliance of the two
nations those services represent. Bob is also a member of the American National Association of Railroad Passengers Advocates.
Bob opposes the REAL ID Act because it focuses unfairly on American citizens and those who are already
here in this country, as opposed to where he feels the real war should be brought, upon foreigners abroad who hate the United
States.
Bob is a lifelong resident of Tampa, Florida.
| Brian Reagan...General Secretary |
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In his 2006 update to his campaign
statement for re-election as National Director,
Brian said: "Here's what's
wrong with self-proclaimed experts chosen by the media commenting on anything:
On May 18, 2006, BBC-TV had an "expert" on
air worldwide commenting on a major lawsuit relating to IPod. It turned out the guy had shown up that morning at the
station to apply for a low-level computer techie job.
While this is an extreme example, the
fact is major news media in the U.S. pick their favored 'non-expert' du jour to
comment on major issues every day:
In September, 2004 PBS-TV's Lehrer
Report featured a retired military officer currently working for a think tank, who said, as to the Missile Defense Iniative,
'So far, there is no actual proof the system can deflect an incoming missile.'! What kind of proof is he asking for? An actual
incoming IRBM from Kim Jong Il? The whole purpose of the system, an American 8th grader could tell this 'expert,' is to DETER
incoming missiles, and the success of the system is found in the hopeful fact there will never be actual proof.
[ America "proved" the accuracy
of the system, the Association wants to point out as an update to to Brian's statement when, in March, 2008, a US Navy
missile shot down with pinpoint accuracy, a disintegrating satellite about to hit the planet Earth.]
This clown's comments on BBC-TV
on IPod sounded no more smart than the comment of this so-called military expert on the Lehrer Report."
Brian also suports the REAL ID Act as providing a required, and additional, measure to American
national security.
Brian is a resident of San Diego, California.
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
KEY OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
"Hawaii, Hawaii, No Ka Oi!"
Sam is a lifelong resident of the great State of Hawaii.
Wiley Hance...National Vice-President, Education - Hance@NavyVets.org
| Linda West...Assistant General Secretary |
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| Assistant Director for Public Information - West@NavyVets.org |
Katherine Hughes...Assistant Director for Public Information
Hughes@NavyVets.org
| Karen Adair |
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| Assistant Director for Government Liaison...Adair@NavyVets.org |
| Brandi Darcy |
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| Assistant Director for Membership...Darcy@NavyVets.org |
| Patsy Mii |
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In her resume, Patsy says:
"I loved the Navy when I was in it. I love the Navy today. Diversity is important in America. It is one of the most important
aspects of our freedoms, that sets us apart from the countries our ancestors came from."
| Suzanne Chamberlain |
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In her resume, Suzanne says:
"I am an African-American. I believe that affirmative action is good for America and, having served in the Navy as an enlisted
woman, good for the Navy."
Suzanne is a lifelong resident of Chicago, Illinois.
| Melissa Anderson |
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A list of recent NAVA and Association Presidents,
General and Assistant Secretaries, who, while in office, collectively serve as an advisory panel to the Executive Board, can
be found at the bottom of the Mission Statement Page.
Key Officers for the Association's Newstand organizations can
be found on the respective Newstand Pages.
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RECENT PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS OF
THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE
UNITED STATES NAVY VETERANS ASSOCIATION:
"Supporting the physical welfare and
protection of our Armed Forces in combat while simultaneously opposing the national security of the United States, is at best
an intellectually paradoxical position, a position straining hard to become an oxymoron.
Nevertheless, in this blessed land of
Liberty, we must, and do, support the right to speak of any American or any veterans' group which disagrees with that proposition.
But we also believe the average active
duty service member, the overwhelming majority of our troops in Iraq today, and the average veteran alike, not only agree
with that statement, but that they also put the national security of their country first, ahead of their own personal welfare.
That is what 'Duty, Honor, Country'
is all about.
And there is no higher calling than
theirs."
-United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board
Public Resolution
8/31/ 2005
" Islamist fundamentalism is, fundamentally,
a lie. There is nothing fundamental about Islamism, the hijacking of a respected religion into a political creed which preaches
jihad, "holy war," by any means, against all men, women and children who are not Islamic.
Islamist fundamentalism is terror. It
is fascist terror incarnate. It threatens with immediate death every citizen of Western civilization. Its threat is real,
and it is imminent. That clear and present danger will not go away until the individuals who comprise the threat are destroyed,
every last one of them. Politicians who say otherwise are liars, and they compromise with the devil in so saying, or implying.
Islamist fundamentalism is today, in
the 21st Century, a greater threat than that faced by the U.S. in the last century by Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or international
Communism. It is a greater threat than those because it is popular among masses of madmen who inhabit the third world and
whose leaders are capable of both developing and using any weapon modern technology permits them, in order to kill every
person they and their jihad hate.
Its that simple."
-United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board
Public Resolution
10/9/2006
"Presidential decisiveness on issues
pertaining to the national security of the United States is a far, far better thing than a President who wrings his hands
endlessly, or submits each matter pertaining to our national sovereignty to some international body for their approval
by committee."
-United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board
Public Resolution
8/1/2003
 "The Executive Board of the Association views
with disdain the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, announced on Flag Day, 2004, no less, merely to deny jurisdiction in
a case brought by an American atheist to throw out the words 'under God' from our Pledge of Allegiance, on the technical grounds
the appellant did not have standing because he was not the legal custodian of the minor asked to recite the Pledge.
Only three justices wrote substantive opinions saying our Pledge was constitutional as constituted.
This Assocaition joins with those three. Here
is what we would have written:
'The founders clearly intended that the anti-establishment
clause in the Constitution promote an idea neither of an atheist America, nor even of a secular America, but, instead
of a non-sectarian official policy. Jefferson - our third president - wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia, that
"God, who gave us life, gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only
firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be
violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that His justice cannot sleep
forever."
In Washington's First Inaugural Address in
1789, he told the nation, '"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal
rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
And James Madison - one of the chief Framers
of the Constitution and our fourth President - wrote, "Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society,
he must be considered a subject of the Governor of the Universe. We have staked the future of all our political institutions
upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
John Adams, second President and one of the
Framers, warned in 1798, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the
government of any other."
And Thomas Paine, Virginia legislator, born
in England, whose pamphlet Common Sense had such an effect on the American Revolution, wrote, "The cause of America is in
a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the King of America? I'll tell you, friend: He reigns above."
The Founding Fathers saw no reason , in or
outside the Constitution, why America could not officially be a non-sectarian, pluralistic nation, but one which, at the same
time, professed official respect for the Providence from which all our rights, the same rights which are at the
core of our government, flow.'
That's what we would have written."
United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board
Public Resolution
6/14/2004
On March 28, 2006, Justice Stephen G. Breyer
of the United States Supreme Court cross-examined the attorney from the Office of the Solicitor General of the United
States on a case involving the right of the President of the United States to try foreign war criminals in tribunals other
than the civilian courts of the United States. In the course of that cross-examination, Justice Breyer said that the War on
Terror was not a real war at all, and that the President's requested powers of trial meant that any President of the United
States could walk into "Toledo, Ohio" tomorrow and set up tribunals to try Americans for any purpose whatsoever. The
oral response of the Solicitor General's office to Justice Breyer was, in our opinion, weak, and too meek. Here is how we
would have responded to Justice Breyer's interrogation:
"You do not intimidate us, Mr. Justice,
by your questions, or by the position you hold, regardless of whether we win or lose this case. Your statement that the
War on Terror is not a war, or not a war the moral equal of our Civil War, or World War II, is a false statement. And if that
is the starting point as to where we disagree, it is probably also the finishing point, and we are not going to call you names
accordingly as to that disagreement, since we are Americans, and we would hope you would afford us the same courtesy,
because that is a purely political disagreement between your side and our side. The War on Terror against Islamist
fundamentalist terrorists is every much a war threatening the United States and its social fabric as World War II ever was.
During World War II, by the precedent of this very court, the President of the United States, using executive national security
privileges which could, and should be, regulated by our American concepts of due process by our courts, had the right to try
foreigners who violently posed a threat to the United States in a judicial system separate from the formal judicial courts
of this nation.
The statement that, by so arguing, we
are saying that the President of the United States can walk into "Toledo, Ohio," or anywhere else for that matter and
start trying people for no reason at all, or any reason he sees fit, is preposterous on its face, and constitutes political
pandering, and no person, lawyer, or otherwise, who poses that sort of analogy from the bench, is fit to be a judge anywhere
in America, no less the Supreme Court of the United States."
- US Navy Veterans Association Executive
Board Public Resolution
3/28/2006
" 'U.N.izing' how the United States deals with
any foreign policy situation, where there is a direct security threat against the United States, inherently means some sublimation
of our national sovereignty. Protection of the national security of the United States lies, and should lie, in the final
analysis, with the American people, and their Government.
And our national sovereignty is inherently put
at risk when powerful foreign ideologues preach a 'Caliphate' world order designed to take over the United States and
destroy its way of life, as Al Quaida and their allies, which are to true Islam as the Ku Klux Klan was to true Christianity,
do.
When Khrushchev said to Nixon in the kitchen
debates, "We will bury you," he meant it. And the national security threat was real.
The threat from the new Klansmen of the jihad
is just as real. They are even more resolved than Khrushchev was, and they will not rest until we are buried, or they are."
-United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board
Public Resolution
9/5/2003
We are resolved as follows in the total humility of our opinion,
and not in speaking as anything other than as common Americans who believe in Providence:
"Our strength as a Nation lies not in our military or naval might,
nor in our economic or financial prowess. It lies, primarily, and instead, in our moral values to know, as a people, right
from wrong, both domestically, and internationally.
God has neither foreordained America as the leader of the world; nor
has God foreordained the success of the United States and its cause. 'While God may not be on our side,' as Abraham Lincoln
once said,'we should all humbly pray that we are on His side.'
What Providence has done, we humbly believe, is to speak to the universal
freedoms of every man and woman born on the face of this earth, and to bless the United States with the only government document
of any state ever written, the Decaration of Independence ratified by our Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in saying
so, that these rights come from Providence, not from government, that they are universal, for all men and women everywhere,
from the beginning of time to the end of time, and that man is the master of government, and that government is not the master
of man.
It is the manifest destiny of the United States to proclaim those truths,
that shining city, that light unto the world.
That is our destiny.
Not more. Not less."
-United States Navy Veterans Association Executive Board
Public Resolution
6/14/ 2004
'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'
- Edmund Burke
"There is a Non-Proliferation Treaty in the U.N. In simple English, states
which voluntarily have signed it which don't have nuclear weapons, pledge not to develop them.
In Simple English, some of those states have violated that Treaty.
What is more important is the spirit of the Treaty, and that spirit,
regardless whether a given country state is a signatory or not, is that if the world has a bunch of small states with half-crazed
governments turning out nuclear weapons, the world itself is in clear and present danger.
There are nine nations today with known nuclear weapons: North Korea,
China, the United States, Great Britain, Russia, France, India, Pakistan and Israel. Most of them understand nuclear deterrence
in a responsible sense, but that is saying nothing, for even one nuclear weapon, including dirty radioactive bombs, in the
hands of one irresponsible man or woman, is one nuclear weapon too many. Nevertheless in the 1960's there were predictions
that at this time at least 30 nations would have nuclear weapons. So nuclear proliferation is a containable problem, and international
cooperation on this issue should be requested.
But if requests for international cooperation are not successful, and
the national security of the United States is at stake, then we as a people should be resolved, despite the loss of lives,
to act in our own self defense without asking anybody's permission first, or listening to their Monday morning quarterbacking
after the fact.
The United States, as the world's only superpower, in the age of terror
in which we live, has a moral obligation to step in in such a case, as necessary, to see that the spirit of Non-Proliferation
which President Kennedy spoke so eloquently about at Georgetown University in 1963, is enforced."
-United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board
Public Resolution
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