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PRESS RELEASE
(9/17/2006)
VoteYesForLife.com Joins in Thanking Vietnam Veterans Takes note of legalization of abortion day before Vietnam ceasefire Sioux Falls, South Dakota--Today the VoteYesForLife.com campaign joins the rest of South Dakota to thank Vietnam Veterans for their service and sacrifice. More than 50,000 people gathered in Pierre for the Vietnam War Memorial Dedication. More than 200 South Dakota servicemen lost their lives in the Vietnam. The VoteYesForLife.com campaign extends gratitude to them, their families and the living servicemen who protected freedom. In 1967, Vietnam Veteran Bill Kortemeyer, a VoteYesForLife.com volunteer, returned from Vietnam. He remembers when many Americans scorned his fellow servicemen: “In an invocation at the Vietnam War Memorial Dedication it struck me how ironic it is that the Vietnam War occurred in the same era that abortion was legalized. Vietnam Vets were called babykillers. And that hurt.” Abortion was legalized on January 22, 1973. The president ordered a ceasefire in Vietnam the next day. Kortemeyer acknowledges that innocent children were unintentionally killed during the war. “We lost 58,000 American military in Vietnam. But what hurts me more is that since that era America is intentionally killing almost twice as many babies every month via abortion,” he said. “And that’s why VoteYesForLife.com passed out thousands of flyers expressing our gratitude to Veterans for protecting our rights,” Leslee Unruh, VoteYesForLife.com campaign manager said.
VoteYesForLife.com campaigns on behalf of Referred Law 6. The campaign organized in 2006 to support HB 1215, the Women’s Health and Human Life Protection Act.
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