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Columbia Missourian

LETTER: Government insults veterans, dissenters

By James D. Miller, Fayette
August 19, 2009 | 10:35 a.m. CDT

In April of this year, the Department of Homeland Security had a report that claimed, "Veterans are potential domestic terrorists." I am a Vietnam veteran. Why is my government insulting me like this?

Now I am hearing that people who oppose the health care plan are un-American. I am an American. I think the health care plan has a lot of flaws. Again, why is my government insulting me like this?

Is it because I have the audacity to think they don't have all the answers and that I think they should leave some of the decision making to me?