Subject: GI Bill Passes, Thanks to You
From: "Brian McGough, VoteVets.org" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:42:30 GMT

Dear VoteVets.org Supporter,

Yesterday, I represented VoteVets.org at a press conference with
leaders in the Senate, before the body passed the bipartisan GI
Bill for the 21st Century. It was an honor to be there, but I
wasn’t just representing my fellow veterans, I was representing
each and every one of you. 

30,000 petition signatures. Tens of thousands of letters to
Capitol Hill. Thousands and thousands of letters to the editor.
Donations that allowed us to air national TV ads on the bill.
That’s what you did to help pass this bill, in the name of
VoteVets.org, and that’s why I was invited to stand with
Senators as the bill was brought up for consideration. 

More importantly, your work made passage of the bill a reality.

Now, the bill will go to the President’s desk, and he has
signaled he will sign it. It wasn’t so long ago that the
President had threatened to veto the legislation, with Senators
like John McCain backing him up on that decision. The
President’s reversal can also be attributed to just how much you
worked to pass this bill. The President and those in his party
know that there could be nothing more unpopular than vetoing
increased education benefits for those who serve in war, in a
time of war.

That’s why I want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, on
behalf of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. What you have done
is make the American dream possible for so many of us. Many of
us who couldn’t afford college will now be able to. We’ll go on
to become doctors and lawyers and teachers, and have the chance
to raise families in the American middle class. It was a promise
made to us by Franklin Roosevelt, and your work has restored
that promise.

You are truly patriots, in every sense of the word.

Sincerely,

Brian McGough
Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran
VoteVets.org

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www.VoteVets.org
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