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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

> I have three crosscut saws just in case but am your typical lazy American 
> geezer; I prefer the noisy, smelly, 
gas-and-oil-guzzling chain saw.

Couldn't be because the job is done in
one swell foop and then you can 'retire' 
on a broadening backside, could it ? LOL !
(And yes, mine has ... sigh ... I also
remember ... when I could zip up a
hill and not be a trembling wreck 
gasping and leaning on any handy
tree ...)
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see Rob's "heads up" below : 
*This* 'good man' is not 'remaining silent while evil triumphs' ....

Sunday, November 7, 2004 · Last updated 7:53 a.m. PT
Gulf War vet sues Army over new call-up

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HONOLULU -- A veteran of the first Persian Gulf War is suing the Army after 
it ordered him to report for duty 13 years after he was honorably discharged 
from active duty and eight years after he left the reserves.

Kauai resident David Miyasato received word of his reactivation in September, 
but says he believes he completed his eight-year obligation to the Army long 
ago.

"I was shocked," Miyasato said Friday. "I never expected to see something 
like that after being out of the service for 13 years."

His federal lawsuit, filed Friday in Honolulu, seeks a judgment declaring 
that he has fulfilled his military obligations.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Yee said his office would defend the Army. He 
declined to comment further. An Army spokeswoman at the Pentagon declined to 
comment to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Miyasato, 34, was scheduled to report to a military facility in South 
Carolina on Tuesday.

Within hours of filing the lawsuit, however, Miyasato received a faxed letter 
from the Army's Human Resources Command saying his "exemption from active 
duty had not been finalized at this time" and that he has been given an 
administrative delay for up to 30 days, said his attorney, Eric Seitz.

Miyasato, his wife, Estelle, and their 7-month-old daughter, Abigail, live in 
Lihue, where he opened an auto-tinting shop two years ago.

His lawsuit states that Miyasato is suing not because he opposes the war in 
Iraq, but because his business and family would suffer "serious and 
irreparable harm" if he is required to serve.

Miyasato enlisted in the Army in 1987 and served in Iraq and Kuwait during 
the first Persian Gulf War as a petroleum supply specialist and truck driver.

Miyasato said he received an honorable discharge from active duty in 1991, 
then served in the reserves until 1996 to fulfill his eight-year enlistment 
commitment.

The Army announced last year that it would involuntarily activate an 
estimated 5,600 soldiers to serve in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Army 
officials would be tapping members of the Individual Ready Reserve - military 
members who have been discharged from the Army, Army Reserve or the Army 
National Guard, but still have contractual obligations to the military.

Miyasato said he never re-enlisted, signed up for any bonuses or was told 
that he had been transferred to the Individual Ready Reserve or any other 
Army Reserve unit.

"I fulfilled my contract," Miyasato said. "I just want to move on from this, 
and I'm optimistic that I'll be successful."

Miyasato speculated that he may have been picked because his skills as a 
truck driver and refueler are in demand in Iraq. He told reporters he did the 
same work as that done by a group of Army reservists who refused to deliver 
fuel along a dangerous route in Iraq last month.

myNOTE: and why shouldn't they refuse to drive unarmored unacompanied trucks 
when the enemy is *ununiformed* and indistinguishable from 'innocent 
bystanders' ?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rob<mailto:becidawa AT hctc.com> 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
  Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:44 AM
  Subject: [Homestead] Drafted...


  Just read this one...
  Unless this story is wrong this guy fulfilled his obligation and was long 
  gone... Maybe they are just drafting truck drivers?

  
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Reservist%20Lawsuit<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_storyasp?category=1110&slug=Reservist%20Lawsuit>
   >>HONOLULU -- A veteran of the first Persian Gulf War is suing the Army 
  after it ordered him to report for duty 13 years after he was honorably 
  discharged from active duty and eight years after he left the reserves<< 

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