MEDIA ADVISORY
"It's Duty, (Not Beauty) Honor, Country"

Committee to Elect Jeffers MacArthur Dodge
California State Assembly, District 47
www.votedodge.com

MEDIA ADVISORY                Contact: Jack Cummins
                                                                                     Telephone: (310) 658-9711

June 30, 2006                                                  for Immediate Release

Jeffers MacArthur Dodge begins campaign to end
Desecration at West Los Angeles Veterans Park

WHO: Jeffers MacArthur Dodge

WHAT: "Beauty Honor Country" or "Duty, Honor, Country" - Desecration at Veterans Memorial.

Jeffers MacArthur Dodge begins campaign to end desecration of "Duty, Honor, Country - Three hallowed words..." General Douglas MacArthur 1962, at Veterans Park Gateway Plaza

WHEN: Wednesday July 5, 2006, 10:00 AM

WHERE: Wilshire Blvd & San Vicente Blvd, West Los Angeles

Culver City, California

State Assembly Nominee, Jeffers MacArthur Dodge will announce the campaign to end the desecration of "Duty, Honor, Country" which has taken place at the Veterans Memorial Gateway Plaza in West Los Angeles.

The Plaza, a four million dollar project at the Veterans Facility has been posted with what can only be described as a desecration of military tradition and patriotic pride.

Along the east wall of the gateway are posted the words "Beauty Honor Country". The sign located behind the wall states:"Honoring our Veterans and cherishing the land". The desecration of the words "Duty, Honor, Country" does not honor our veterans no matter how applied. The words immortalized in a speech given by General of The Army Douglas MacArthur in 1962 to the Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point have held a sacred place in the annals of American Military History.

"Duty, Honor, Country, three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be." General Douglas MacArthur 1962

Jeffers MacArthur Dodge whose 47th State Assembly District includes the location will hold a press conference following the 4th of July to announce the effort to have the word "Beauty" replaced with "Duty". He strives to have the words match those which have been engraved in granite at West Point since 1898.

Jeffers MacArthur Dodge comes about his middle name as a result of family lineage.

Forty four years later he is called into service defending those words so eloquently spoken by his name sake General Douglas MacArthur.

He will enlist veterans groups, members of the Armed Services Committee and Veterans Affairs to return those words to their rightful place in the history of the Armed Services of the United States.

"The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule." General Douglas MacArthur 1962

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