I met Don in the fall of 1995.

I was back in my home state of Minnesota to
do as many radio, T.V. and 'news' paper
interviews as I could, in an effort to put
pressure on my senators, Wellstone and Grams,
and my Congressman, Gil Gutknect to co-sponsor
legislation to ban the sale of weapons to and
from countries that won't account for U.S. POW/MIAs.

These politicians had been a brick wall to my efforts.

I had asked at least 10 Pioneer Press
reporters to do a story on the issue.
Each had told me to speak to another.
Finally one told me to talk to Don.

He gave me an interview and I spent almost
one hour talking w/ him about the issue.

I was very happy.

I thought it was going to be a great article.

When it appeared on the front page of the
Sunday, Nov 24 1995, D section, I was shocked.

It had 2 errors in the headline alone.

It claimed I was a former POW and characterized me
as lonely, although I had never claimed to be either.

He completely omitted every comment I had made
about my efforts to pass a law banning the sale
of weapons to countries that won't account.

They quickly put a 'correction' of the
"Former POW" comment into the next edition.

But that was not all.
The article contained 17 errors, one out right fabrication
(that he later explained away as "journalistic license"),
and 1 misquote.

The article made it appear as if I had acted unprofessional during
my White House demonstrations and my meeting w/ President Clinton.

It took over a week and several phone calls from
angry veterans to get him to run an apology.

The apology ran on page D2,
as opposed to the original story being on D1.

It only clarified 6 of the 17 errors, and he still acted as if
he had some reason to paint me in an unprofessional manner.

I wrote a 'letter to the editor' to clarify the whole issue,
but the paper refused to print it.

Needless to say, I have been unable to get
my state's politicians to co-sponsor my bill.

This is the 'article'. Notice his picture at the left.
The idiot was actually proud of his censorship.
The torn edges tell you how proud I was.