Veterans, take note

How ironic that the Army National Guard Spc. Joe McNeilly, whose loss of custody of his son was the subject of an Aug. 21 LSJ article, will take his fight for his rights to the Veterans Memorial Courthouse to ask Judge Janelle Lawless to overrule the lawless act of a rear-echelon bureaucrat.

That such a hearing is necessary is reason enough to support Rep. Rick Jones' bill to end the practice of preying on deployed service members, so they don't have to dodge subpoenaes and bullets at the same time.

If dad lost joint custody because, while he was in Iraq, the mother had day-to-day custody, then he lost custody due to military service.

I hope every veteran reading this takes the time to register a protest because an attack on one should be viewed as an attack on all of us.

SFC Lloyd A. Conway
Charlotte