How you can help the Guam War Claims Effort!

Here's a great suggestion from a Big Show listener on how to get action on Guam's War Claims issue.

Dear Travis,

There are a number of our fellow Guamanians suggesting we write
e-mails to all the US Senators about the now pending reparations
law.

That cannot hurt, of course.

However, it's been my experience you get a better response from
people in Washington with hard copy correspondences. In fact, you
get the best when you send hand-written letters... and post cards.


http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/
senators_cfm.cfm



And that's the real point:

There is a locally very famous - and very powerful - photograph of
two little boys with a home-made American flag they carried to greet
the Liberation Troops in 1944,

It seems worthwhile to have that photograph made into a post card
with the legend: "Why have we cheated them?" beneath the image -
leaving the back of the card blank for short personal messages in
support of passage of Guam war reparations - appealing to the
American sense of fair-play - to be sent to every one of the hundred
US Senators... by as many of us as there are post cards made.

In fact, it would not be a bad idea to sell the cards to raise whatever
funds we need to make Guam's collective efforts in correcting this
genuine historic wrong as successful as we possibly can.
Businesses could be encouraged to buy them & give them to
customers or supply them to schools. Children could even send
send post cards as class projects.

And it wouldn't be a bad idea to see if you can find the two little boys -
we hope they are still with us - and have them on your show.