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Agree...I knew NOTHING about it. I thought the email was a hoax. So I checked with Snopes.com first. It wasn’t. I called both Senators offices today and confirmed it’s TRUE!

They said they are getting quite a few calls. I was so emotional about it, and I must say, the clerks were very supportive to me.

But we have to support our troops on this. It’s so sad to think we’d allow this to happen to our troops.

I’m sick to my stomach.

If only we could get this out to O’Reilly or Hannity in time to get the word out big time!

Our Vets and troops are getting blind sighted.

It’s heartbreaking.

I did see where it was posted before, but I didn’t want to restart an old thread. We needed to let people know it has now PASSED in the house!

This just got dead serious!

Thanks for helping to get the word out.

I sent out emails to everyone I can think of.

Copying this and spreading it to Disabled Vets groups and Veterans of Foreign Wars is a good idea too!

In Desert Storm I was sent into Kuwait 48 hours before the ground war started to verify bombing had been successful on an enemy forward listening post. I was part of a combined anti-armor (CAAT) team consisting of 8 Hummers with various weapons systems. I was a TOW missile gunner.

We had a short engagement and took out the very operational forward listening post. We were told to stand by in place for further orders.

I was scanning the horizon for signs of the enemy as we were some few miles into enemy territory.

I saw 2 A-10 Warthogs circling a few miles out with the IR TOW sight. We had been airlifted over the first minefield by CH-53 helicopters with Cobra and Hornet escorts earlier that night.

I thought for a second that maybe I should attempt to contact air command to verify they knew we were friendlies, but decided to maintain radio silence instead, figuring they were sent to watch over us.

A few minutes later a Maverick missile came in and killed five of my brothers.

I tried to pull on of them from the flames and the skin came off his arm in my hand.

I have troubling sleeping to this day, and cannot get enough sleep to properly function as a productive worker without the aid of some sleeping pills.

They say this is PTSD. I am ashamed that I have to have some help in this manner...I just feel so guilty over not preventing this. I was only 18.

There are a lot of vets that will not speak of their experiences out of the shame of accepting some help from the VA. This gun ban will affect many.