What Military Retirees Must Do
To Regain Benefits They Were Promised!

GET INVOLVED!

• Keep the military retiree medical care broken promise issue alive:

• Encourage your Representatives to support the Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act.

• Educate your Representatives and Senators. Send messages via regular mail, e-mail, web form, FAX, and telephone.
  See http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html for contact information.

• Educate the Veteran's Service Organizations. Ask for their support.
  See http://www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view&SortCategory=4 for contact information.

• Educate the news media and the public. Write letters to the editor.
  See http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/ for contact information.

• Get other military retirees involved via the Internet and in person.

• Spread the word to military retirees not on the Internet. This can be done via letters to the editor.

• Picketed near the local offices of your Representatives and Senators.

• Attend meetings designed to call attention to the plight of military retirees.

• Call your Reps and Senators via TOLL FREE numbers provided by National Veterans' Service Organizations.

• Get familiar with pertinent Military Retiree House and Senate Bills.
  See http://thomas.loc.gov/

• Make Congress aware of the greatest swindle of all time.
  See http://mrgrg-ms.org/swindle00.html

• Make Congress aware of the difference between a military retiree and a military veteran.
  See http://mrgrg-ms.org/retiree-vs-vet-00.html

• Make the Congress aware of what the Courts have said.

• On 8 Feb 2001, WE HAD A CONTRACT: The retirees entered active duty in the armed forces and completed at least twenty years service on the good faith belief that the government would fulfill its promises. The terms of the contract were set when the retirees entered the service and fulfilled their obligation. See http://mrgrg-ms.org/d99-1402.html#conclusion

• On 18 Nov 2002, WE DID NOT HAVE A CONTRACT: We cannot readily imagine more sympathetic plaintiffs than the retired officers of the World War II and Korean War era involved in this case. They served their country for at least 20 years with the understanding that when they retired they and their dependents would receive full free health care for life. The promise of such health care was made in good faith and relied upon. Again, however, because no authority existed to make such promises in the first place, and because Congress has never ratified or acquiesced to this promise, we have no alternative but to uphold the judgment against the retirees' breach-of-contract claim. See http://mrgrg-ms.org/f99-1402.html#conclusion

This web page is designed to assist the military retiree grass roots movement in their effort to regain the medical care that was promised to them before their retirement. Some of the medical care that was promised was restored when the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 was signed into law, on 30 Oct 2000, that bought us Tricare for Life. However, this web page will remain on the Internet as a reminder of THE WAY IT WAS. The American people and the United States Congress must never forget that which is owed to its military retirees, military veterans, active duty military, and their eligible dependents.

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Changes:

Was: "Contact your Representatives and Senators.".
Is: "Educate your Representatives and Senators. Send messages via regular mail, e-mail, web form, FAX, and telephone.".

Was: "Write letters to the editor of your local newspapers.".
Is: "Educate the news media and the public. Write letters to the editor.".

Added: "Educate the Veteran's Service Organizations. Ask for their support.
See http://www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view&SortCategory=4 for contact information.".

Was: "Spread the word to military retirees not on the Internet.".
Is: "Spread the word to military retirees not on the Internet. This can be done via letters to the editor.".

Was: "Find House or Senate Bills.".
Is: "Get familiar with pertinent Military Retiree House and Senate Bills.".