As it relates to Brownwood National Guard Members & their families

Where's support from Conaway ?
Letters to the Editor
July 31, 2005
Editor:

I thought your readers might like to know that their U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway recently voted against extending health insurance coverage to military reservists and National Guardsmen.
Apparently, he felt that we did not deserve the same coverage as active duty troops, even though we would have had to pay for the coverage that active duty troops receive for free. This is just another sad example of chicken hawk patriotism.
Conaway reminds me of the diner who loudly praises the food, then sneaks out the back when the bill comes. He finds it easy enough to say he supports the troops, but is unwilling to spend the money to give them the benefits they deserve, even while our own hometown National Guard unit is deployed to Iraq.

Marshall L. Wilde
San Angelo

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