5/19/2010 – Thaddeus Wojcik -
US Army Veteran Patch
Dear Mr. Attorney General:

Like yourself, I am a non-combat veteran of the US Armed Forces. I served four years active duty in the United States Army. I served honorably as a “cold warrior” in a tactical intelligence unit near the East German Border in the FRG as an intelligence analyst and Russian translator.

I’ve not only listened to the news recently, I’ve focused on what you’ve said, the import (literal and colloquial) of the words, and listened to it in context. Though proud to state what I believe, at times forcefully, I am not prone to histrionics, and believe in giving the benefit of the doubt; I insist on the whole story, and I recognize that at times reasonable minds may differ.

Yet, while each of us fails in our own respective areas of human fallibility, your sins of semantic gilding require a bold, uneuphemized apology; I dare say, too, that your withdrawal from the election and your resignation from your current position would be the minimal steps sufficiently weighty to put substance behind the form of such an apology.

You may recall in your time in service that language which summarizes awards and commendations, to the effect that by doing such-and-such the recipient thereof has brought great credit to herself or himself, her or his unit, and the United States Army (or Navy, Marine Corps Air Force).

You, sir, by your rodentine patter, have earned the antithesis of those hallowed accolades, and have brought great shame not only on yourself, but on your fellow servicemen and women (in particular those who’ve actually faced the stark terror of combat, or the heart-wrenching rejection of the ungrateful public in the Vietnam era), the United State military, your family, your friends, your supporters, the great state of Connecticut, and attorneys general throughout the United States.

Worse, by your past deceit and your continued gnawing recalcitrance, you shame and mock the quasi-sacred electoral process itself, which is vivified each generation by those men and women of true valor whose blood nourishes the roots of the tree of American liberty.

Consider seriously, sir, the sardonic burlesque show into which your campaign and career will incongruously transmogrify should you not withdraw and resign, respectively; note well–your current office, and that which you seek, each bears with it the ironic epithet of “Honorable.” That, sir, you are not.

Most sincerely,
Thaddeus Wojcik