Thank you all so much for the enthusiasm! :clapper:
Now, please allow me to explain this more in-depth for you…
1) The Veterans have nothing to do with online gaming and hold no official position. Some of them play, some of them don’t… just like the rest of us.
2) Veterans Health Care, and other benefits, have been lacking for years. They identified online gaming as a potential revenue stream in a charitable gaming model.
3) The communications and marketing arm of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (Called the VFW Web Com) and the APCW have partnered to try to capture the now abandoned US Gaming Market’s revenue for Veterans Services. Our job is to educate the members, answer questions, help in the legislative process, grow our membership, and (eventually) help choose how the whole system is set up from software to affiliate program.
4) The VFW has over 2.4 million members who need additional funds for services that the US Federal Government does not pay. In fact, their funding will be cut even more within the next 2 years. The VFW Webcom network connects all the Vet’s together with emails, message boards, blogs, and over 8,000 websites to discuss the strategy.
5) Discussion is where we are now. There has been little negative feedback privately when online charitable gaming has been discussed. Once the “higher ups” approve the model, we write legislation.
6) Now the fun begins, because once the VFW goes forward with this the American Legion will follow, as well as ofther Veterans Service Organizations like the Disabled Vets, Vietnam Veterens, and Purple Heart Association. That would bring the numbers to around 6,000,000 represented Americans.
7) With that kind of representation all over the country, no congressman will dare to not take our calls or welcome us to their office. We give them a choice to pay for the Veterans Services or find another model to do the job… If they don’t want to help, then the thousands of Veterans in their districts will not be happy.
I hope this expains the strategy, and shows that this process will take long hours and hard work… but it’s totally winnable.