[Peace-discuss] Senate renaming Post Offices after military heroes

[Karen Medina]

Fascinating. Thanks Laurie!
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at advancenet.net> wrote:
>
> It has been a long standing policy since WWII that military veterans were
> given preference in hiring at the Post Office in the Postal Service in that
> they were given a 5-10 point head start in their scores on the hiring tests
> over non-veterans.
>
> Many if not all federal buildings are named for some honored dead elected
> official, famous person, or local hero of some sort or another - except the
> White House, the Supreme Court building, and the Congress (although the
> associated office buildings that house the offices of Representatives and
> Senators are named after legislators - e.g., the Sam Rayburn office
> building).  The Vice President's office is in Blair House.
>
> Did you ever notice how man high school and jr. high school as well as
> middle school principals, vice principals, and deans tend to be retired
> military officers, who happen to have a degree in education administration,
> business administration, or management program but whose real claim to fame
> is their status as career military officers?
>
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> heroes
>
> Wow. I guess I had not ever noticed the Post Offices being named
> anything but the name of the town.
> Recently, I have come to think of the Post Office as serving an
> essential role of inexpensive communication to every household --
> which I feel is somehow vital to democracy. Much in the way that I see
> libraries as being vital to democracy, I now see the Postal Service.
> But I guess they name libraries after rich donors. And the Post Office
> has very long ties to the military. A very large percentage of my
> co-workers were military veterans.
>
> I still think it is sad state of affairs that there is a Senate
> committee called the "Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
> Affairs".
> And that any committee spends its time renaming Post Offices.
>
> -karen medina
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think this is particularly new, nor, unless you know to the
>> contrary, that it is particularly  limited to "military heroes" or
>> even veterans.
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