My name is Adele Kubein; I am a member of Military Families Speak Out, and the mother of a twenty-six year old veteran of the Iraq War. My daughter served in Mosul for ten months and was injured and medevac’d out of Iraq in January of 2004. The window of opportunity for our troops to [...]

June 6, 2006 Dear Governor Kulongoski: I would like to thank you for attending and speaking at the memorial service for my nephew, PFC William Ramirez who was killed in action in Baghdad, February 11, 2004. Your care and sympathy were evident as well as your sincere understanding for exactly what William suffered and sacrificed. [...]

June 5, 2006 Governor Ted Kulongoski Salem, Oregon Dear Governor Kulongoski, I am writing to you as a constituent to voice my request for you to join us, a majority of Oregon and the nation’s citizens asking for an end to the Iraq war. Our 21 year-old son recently returned from one year of urban [...]

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