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To the editor: .

I agree with the Honorable Norman Sisisky’s slick, expensive campaign ads that he has cut government red tape, but not always for the best.

Recently, by voting to take away duly-awarded shares to the military pension from certain long-term military wives, he cut out a lot of “red tape” for these old, poor, tired and often sick military ex-spouses. He voted to return their honestly earned and legally awarded share of the pensions they helped to earn to their former husbands.

By denying (by fiat) these old military wives their pensions, he has cut out a lot of red tape for them. Now they won’t have to take their

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