<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of the Army Times.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; font: normal normal normal 26px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Marine’s injury draws vets to Occupy movement</h2></span><br></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Spurred by an injury to one of their own, military veterans are mobilizing to increase their presence and profile in the Occupy Wall Street movement.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Wednesday on Wall Street, the New York City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and dozens of other uniformed veterans known as “Veterans of the 99%” are expected to mass near Wall Street, where Occupy began Sept. 17.</p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; ">Although they’ve been participating in Occupy protests throughout the country, vets said their ranks have been swelling since last week, when former Marine and Iraq War vet Scott Olsen sustained a skull fracture when he was hit by a police projectile at an Occupy Oakland protest. Although still hospitalized, Olsen, 24, is expected to make a full recovery.</span><br></span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; ">“His injury has definitely galvanized veterans,” said University of Illinois senior Scott Kimball, 27, who served in Iraq as an Army</span> specialist. He’ll be helping coordinate Wednesday’s New York City event, which begins at 11 a.m. march at Vietnam Veterans Plaza</span><br></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">“We’re getting calls from veterans across the country who are extremely angry and appalled that someone who served two tours in Iraq got injured as a well-behaved protester,” Kimball said. “It’s rallying vets across the country. We’re just seeing the beginning of it.”</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Interim Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan has said that the events leading up to Olsen’s injury would be investigated.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Occupy Wall Street launched as a protest against corporate America’s influence on government and the growing income disparity between the nation’s rich and poor. Although many protesters have appeared disorganized, Occupy’s central themes have attracted a widening band of followers, as Occupy protests spread to scores of U.S. cities and abroad.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">The movement has been gathering support from labor unions and liberal groups such as <a href="http://MoveOn.org">MoveOn.org</a>, although support from veterans has been less vocal. Occupy Marines, a Facebook support group that did not respond to calls, has been urging vets and active-duty personnel to show up at demonstrations but not in Marine uniform.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">“I’m in it for the long term,” said former Marine Shawn Riley, 25, who served in Iraq and is a participant in Occupy Chicago. “This is an idea we’re going to pass to future generations.”</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Joe Carter, a retired Army sergeant and national head of Iraq Veterans Against the War, said he expects increasing involvement from retired and active-duty personnel.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">“We’re hearing from 80-year-old former Marines,” said Carter, who served two tours in Iraq. “Scott Olsen was willing to put himself on the line, so a lot more people are willing to take a more visible role.”</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Carter said he hopes vets can parlay higher visibility in Occupy protests into heightened awareness of issues that are crucial to vets: high jobless rates, declining benefits and lingering postwar trauma. According to a recent Department of Labor report, unemployment among 18-to-24-year-old vets is over 20 percent, compared with a national unemployment rate of about 9 percent.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em; ">Oakland, city officials are bracing for a possible shutdown of the Port of Oakland on Wednesday by organizers for Occupy Oakland, which is planning to disrupt the nation’s fifth-busiest shipping container port in a broad call to action that will include a march against local businesses.</p></span><div>------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"Honest and true,</span></div><div>As the morning star.</div><div>Vote for just two,</div><div>Ament and Lamar."</div></div><img src="cid:EDBABAC2-C497-4794-B9CA-F8C86A83EE29" alt="image.jpeg" id="EDBABAC2-C497-4794-B9CA-F8C86A83EE29" width="200" height="100" apple-original-width="200" apple-original-height="100"><div> </div></body></html>