
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 19, 1990                   TAG: 9005210205
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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`NOTCH BABIES' SHOULD BE MILITANT

I READ with interest D. Ballinger's letter April 5 about the "notch babies." I would say that 50 percent of the veterans of World War II were notch babies, some of them with arms and legs scattered through Europe and the Pacific Islands.

Is this a way for our Congress to show appreciation for these people who spent years away from home sleeping in foxholes with bullets and shells bursting around them? If this isn't discrimination, then we might as well do away with the word.

I think that every person born in the notch years should visit his or her congressman and senator and find out if they are doing anything about this great injustice.

Maybe we should suggest that they change the notch years and start paying these people their share of Social Security. If this doesn't work, the only alternative is for us to take our case to Washington and camp out on the White House lawn until something is done about it. I can leave tomorrow. NELSON RICE VINTON

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