My Nonprofit Reviews

I am a 100% disabled two tour Vietnam Combat veteran. I came back and got a Ph. D. so I could teach the horrors our Imperial Power is seducing our young, as it did myself, to impose upon the world's innocent people and the planet. Unfortunately for me, my teaching career was stopped cold by sudden onset of and permanent and total incapacitation with PTS; this has prevented me from teaching in a formal institution due to the social stigma attached to folks the government calls heroes while leaving us frevented from and alienated from professional occupations. I have dedicated my life to taking action and teaching where I can, usually with individuals, and also with trading stories of "what brought you to this work." Most contacts are much younger, eager to learn from the experienced and educated, and willing to make heroic efforts to achieve what needs achieving. And they need all the help they can get. EDF is one of the very few organizations that is interested only in doing what needs to be done, and in guiding those who need the guidance to taking the most urgently needed action precisely when it is most likely to be effective.

I admit my stomach churns with someone calling me a hero. What is heroic about having your society and government seduce and then rape one's innocent and pure patriotism? What is heroic about being reduced to a violent warrior trained and pushed into situations where survival requires of one the violent demolition of innocent peoples and their cultures? What is heroic about being seduced into destroying the planet just so a few insanely and irresponsibly wealthy psychopaths can steal a few more billions from society's most destitute, impoverished ahd dispossessed?

Be that as it may, Iunderstand that is not what EDF means to tap into, and elicit from the veterans of the Imperial terrorism the US Government imposes upon the world's innocent and the planet's life. EDF is rightfully pointing out to the young and innocent that they are indeed taking up a non-violent and noble path against all that is rotten and corrupt in this very empire. For this EDF needs all the help they can muster.

Thank you for hearing me out.

Sincerely,

Walter J Smith
Enterprise, Oregon
Founder, Climate Watch Wallowas