THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, June 9, 1996 TAG: 9606070006
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 28 lines
As a ``thrown-away'' military wife who served as an active-duty wife for 37 years and walked away from that long marriage with little more than the clothes on my back, while my former husband almost immediately remarried and bestowed my share of the jointly earned pension on his second mate, I was happy when the honest and courageous senator from Virginia, the Honorable (and he really is) John Warner, wrote recently: ``The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act'' is necessary to ensure that the spouses of service members are protected. I believe the spouses also served our nation by supporting their husband's or wife's military career.''
Military wives, ex or otherwise, particularly need Senator Warner in the Senate to make sure that military divorce rules for both military member and military spouse are fair.
As the next senator in line for the chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee after Sen. Strom Thurmond, Senator Warner will be in a position to be a fair arbiter of divorce laws. Those who believe in fairness and who are against the ``throw-away-military-wife'' divorce system should express their opinion of Senator Warner on June 11 at the polls.
BETTY FRAILEY
Grafton, June 2, 1996 by CNB