Dear Mr. Gordon Mansfield,

Thank you for the greeting cards you sent me. I do not use them because I am Orthodox and Romanian and we use our own greeting cards in our religion and language.

Further, I can understand the situation of the Paralyzed Veterans of America because they believed they fought for America, but I cand not see what was the purpose of USA fighting along with the Communist Russian against the Central and Eastern Europe. As a Romanian I had to fight against the Bolshevist Russian who invaded our country based on Ribbentrop-Molotov Pakt from 23 August 1939, when they took from Romania the province of Bessarabia and also the Eastern part of Poland.

Later, in the WW II the American fought along with the Communist Russian Army against us. They bombed all our cities and killed civil population by hundred of thousand, and at the Peace Treaty the USA gave the Bolshevist Russia all of the Eastern Europe, where they installed communist regimes who killed all who were anti-communists. And to be anti-communist signifies to be Christian and Nationalist. So you believe you fought for USA but you just helped the Communist Russians to kill the other nation Christians and Nationalists and expand their communist terror regime all over Europe. Is there anything else the American Veterans were fighting for?

I escaped from Romania in 1948, as soon as the Communist regime of Romania, installed by Stalin and suported by USA governments (Roosevelt and Truman) took over Romania and when they wanted to arrest me. I had to fled my country, to let there all my familiy and friends and my profession, just to escape the communist terror brought in Romania by the Americans, because without the help of USA, the Communist Russia could never win the war. So the main actual and moral responsibility for the tragedy of my country lies first of all by the USA governments. But these veterans did not know for whom they were fighting. They just obeyed the orders and therefor I am sending you my contribution of $ 25.- because they love their country, which is very important to me. Not the government, which sometimes can be wrong, but the country, which is never wrong.

February 6. 1997

Sincerely yours,

Traian Golea

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