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"The Guidestar Exchange Seal tells funders that the organization has satisfied all the transparency and validation
criteria from Guidestar."
UNITED STATES NAVAL VETERAN SINCE 1927.
1997 Annapolis Exchange Parkway Ste 300
Annapolis MD 21401
Telephone: 202.736.1725 (DC)
410.972.4700 (Annapolis)
Fax:
202.785.3607 (DC)
Email: USN@NavyVets.org
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Official Website
of the
United States Navy
Veterans
Association
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9 MILLION FANS AND COUNTING!
...Our count is a count of all
unique visitors the Association
has had on all its websites,
this one, as well as all
our predecessor sites
dating back to the 1990s.
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.
If all that appeals to you,
then WE are the assistance group for veterans
you are looking for.
United States Navy Veterans Association
Not radically different.
Just radically better. 
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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 
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
2/12/2004 "The globalization of nuclear weapons is everybody's problem"
- Mohammed al-Baradeh
Chairman, IEAA, United Nations
"We have some very simple military advice as
to the War on Terror abroad for future American presidents as to how to deal with the jihadists who strike at us first ('Square
0'):
1. Invade their countries with overwhelming
conventional forces and turn their deserts into glass. Overthrow their governments, but no protracted guerilla war like Iraq.
2. Withdraw and let them sort out their own
internal anti-American political mess.
 3. Work diplomatically, non-militarily and with
covert action to hurt and destroy their new anti-American regime as much as possible, for as long as it takes. No accomodation.
No containment. Nothing less than destruction of their regime should be the goal.
4. If they go back to square 0, start 1, 2 and
3 all over again.
No overstretching our currently underfunded Armed Forces in fighting protracted guerilla
wars on the Asian land mass. A well-defined short-term mission with a publicly announced end game in advance. In and out.
Guarantees of long-term support for indigenous, truly popular pro-American forces capable of defending themselves with minimal
U.S. troops on the ground. No surrender to, or negotiation with, the Islamist enemy, ever. Announced, unswerving, strategic
goal of the unconditional destruction of every Islamist terrorist worlwide.
This model, we should point out, was successfully
used by the Administration of President George H. W. Bush, in the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, to overthrow the government
of General Manuel Noriega, who, like Saddam and others before him, claimed to be democratically elected. The foreign policy
concepts behind the Noriega invasion were scoffed at at the time by the Association's predecessor organization"
-United States Navy Veterans Association Executive Board
Public Resolution
6/15/ 2004
Kelly Craven passes on this email story from a U.S. Armed Forces military
father in April, 2006: But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped Everyone within hearing distance cheered!”
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But, to quote with apologies from "West Wing" White House Press Secretary
C.J., on a show about North Korean nuclear blackmail of the United States: "America was built on freedom. Every country in the world has less
freedom than we do. That's why they want to come here." That's the REAL argument, folks, about our national security, and the
most important one. Circular as it may seem, our freedom is based on our security, and our
security is based on our freedom.
There is no moral equivalence between the forces of freedom on the one hand, and the forces of
Islamic jihad and theocratic tyranny like those we are seeing operate in Afghanistan and Iraq, on the other, in the
world today. These two sets of forces are not moral equals..
The War on Terror is not a war on the process of guerilla warfare. It is an ideological, and substantive,
war on Islamic jihad and its politics of anti-Americanism.
One of these notions is based on the gift of true Providence; the other is based on true evil.
There are those Americans, men and women, who were never embarassed by patriotism, who, throughout
history, have fought that fight for freedom, and who have always had their opponents: Those who called them traitors, war
criminals, and people who used illegal means to achieve their ends.
President Eisenhower was once asked why the free world had to use underhanded tactics to fight Soviet
imperialism. He replied bluntly, "Because you have to fight fire with fire."
To those who call real American heroes names, whose vision for a little America is that she can act
on her own behalf only in concert with third worlders in the U.N., we say forthrightly, we know which side you are on.
Of the two sides, only one can prevail.
And the United States Navy Veterans Association believes it will be America's side.
"We do not live in Freedom," an American immigrant philosopher versed in music once
said, "Freedom lives in us."
This new website of the United States Navy Veterans Association was
dedicated on September 11, 2001, and everything you see hear, everything you hear here, everything you read here, was
re-formed as of that date. We Americans are constantly re-inventing ourselves as a people, and that is part of our wonder
for the rest of the world, and part of our glory. 9/11 made such a new American renaissance a necessity.
We will rebuild, we are told, on the site of the old World Trade Center,
a new Tower, One World Trade Center, 1776 feet tall, over one-third of a mile high, the tallest building in the world.
The United States needs its perpetual rebirth. It needs to move on to
new frontiers, but never to forget its past.
And to those who oppose us, we say, simply: "Bring Them On."
"We cannot plan future military campaigns in the
War on anti-American Terror as if they are parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. But plan these campaigns, and execute them, for
the forseeable future, we must.
We must be obdurate as well as straightforward with
the American people as to the sacrifice needed in these campaigns. We need to be as persistent and as patient as our enemies.
This was a problem in the past: That we were not. That is why we lost the only war we did.
And we cannot pretend that these enemies do not exist.
This War, like the Cold War, will not end until one
side or the other is, irrevocably, buried.
It should not be our side. It should be theirs. And
it should all end on a day and time of our choosing, not theirs."
- United States Navy
Veterans Association
Executive Board Public Resolution,
May 2, 2005
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the
doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort
without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst,
if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither
know victory nor defeat.”
Emma did not say "...[or] your huddling masses yearning to breathe
free." She said "...[and] your huddling masses yearning to breathe free."
“This you knows. The years travel
fast. And time after time I’ve done the Tell. But this ain’t one body’s Tell. It’s the Tell of us all. And you got to listen it and ‘member. ‘Cause what you hears today, you got to tell the newborn tomorrow. I’s looking behind us now, into history back. I sees those of us that got the luck and started the haul for home. It lead us here and we was heartful ‘cause we seen what there once was. One look, and we knewed we’d got it straight. Those what had gone before had knowing of things beyond our reckoning. . . . . .even beyond our dreaming. Time counts and keeps counting. And we knows now. . . . . .finding the trick of what’s been and lost ain’t no easy ride. But that’s our trek. we got to travel it. And there ain’t nobody knows where it’s gonna lead. Still and all, every night we does the Tell. . . . . .so that we ‘member who we was and where we came from. But most of all we ‘members the man who finded us. . . . . .him that came the salvage. And we lights the city. Not just for him. . . . . .but for all of them that are still out there. ‘Cause we knows there’ll come a night. . . . . . when they sees the distant light. . . . . .and they’ll be coming home.” --- With apologies to Savannah in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Every reader over the age over the age of 12 in “It was the height of American patriotism for President Barack Obama
in It is the height of hypocrisy for any President at the same time he is
making these statements in Ghana, to support or says he supports or says that he recognizes the likes of the dictator Hugo
Chavez in Venezuela, who threw out the constitution of Venezuela because it prevented him from being elected as a life term
dictator in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez did this in It is the height of hypocrisy for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
upon the orders of the President of the United States, to say that we support any government democratically elected, meaning
one man, one vote, regardless of what they seek to do to interfere with, alienate, regulate, or deny the fundamental constitutional
rights that were announced by the founding fathers of this Republic in the first official document of our government, the
Declaration of Independence, which was passed on July 4, 1776, which said that these rights, these fundamental constitutional
rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness come not from government, not from a president, but from Nature and from
Nature’s God. This same concept is established in the Declaration of the
Rights of Man of the French Revolution of 1793. The same concept is established as a fundamental definition of all of our
rights as individuals in the Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. The
concept of one man, one vote is irrelevant and needs to be universally made irrelevant, for purposes of United States foreign
policy, with regard to any government which claims to be democratically elected, be it Hitler’s, Chavez’, Hamas’,
Hezbollah’s, or the government of the Mullahs’ in Iran, which deny fundamental individual human rights that are
given to every individual at the moment of his or her creation. The words of President Obama in Ghana seem almost as if they are part
of a spin that he says to one audience in a far away place, Africa, while at the same time his minions in Washington are saying
totally different things in the world here. That hypocrisy deals specifically
with saying that the United States recognizes constitutionalism in Ghana, as it should, but at the same time denies fundamental
constitutional rights based on a one man, one vote theory of democracy, to people in Venezuela or to the people in Honduras
or to Jews who lived in Nazi Germany or to Jews who might elect to live under a Hamas government or a Mullah-run government
in Pakistan or to others who believe in all of those fundamental freedoms which are contained in our Bill of Rights and, who
might elect to live in Iran. This is more than simple inconsistencies. It goes beyond that. This is shear hypocrisy. These are people in control of the
foreign and domestic polices of the This Public Resolution is not meant to advocate simply the “protection
of the rich,” and surely there are many rich people both in the This Association is probably the only IRS-recognized war veteran membership
organization which openly says these things and at the same time provides, not in terms of the totality of our programs, but
in terms of a part of the totality of our programs, specific assistance to veterans and members of their families who have
been left out by official government mechanisms. If you believe in what we say,
and we certainly do, and seek, as all patriots do, to assist those veterans and
those members of their families, you need to look no longer for any other group to support.” National Board Public Resolution July 21, 2009 |
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