Vets' preference.As Charles Peters noted in "Tilting at Windmills," people with past military service are rare not only among the members of Congress but also among their family members. But there may be a cure--institute a veterans preference system (the type we vets used to get civil-service jobs after World War II) for high elected and appointive ap·poin·tive adj. Relating to or filled by appointment: an appointive office. Adj. 1. appointive - relating to the act of appointing; "appointive powers" 2. offices. A veterans' preference of, say, 7 percentage points in congressional elections would do wonders for our enlistment figures, and it would forestall fore·stall tr.v. fore·stalled, fore·stall·ing, fore·stalls 1. To delay, hinder, or prevent by taking precautionary measures beforehand. See Synonyms at prevent. 2. such scandalous situations as last year's ejection ejection /ejec·tion/ (e-jek´shun) 1. the act of casting out or the state of being cast out, as of excretions, secretions, or other bodily fluids. 2. something cast out. 3. of disabled veteran Max Cleland Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a former U.S. Senator, disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, and a critic of the Bush Administration. from the Senate or the lack of military experience among White House officials who so cavalierly sent our troops to overseas wars. Of course, no preference would be given to those who served in draft-dodging outfits such as the Texas Air National Guard. William M. Burke Via email |
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