6923 Vera Cruz Ct.

Citrus Heights, CA 95621

January 9, 2007

Dear Congressman Kucinich,

First I must express my delight at your decision to run again! As one who worked long and diligently for you in your campaign leading to 2004, it rejoices me to see that you’re back, this time buttressed with your astonishing wife Elizabeth whom I got to meet at your fund-raiser in Marin in September—and this time the sole candidate standing for the will of the American people.

I am a progressive activist based in two grassroots organizations. One is the suburban group, the Peace Pyramid, that my wife Dar and I are carrying into its fifth year of bulldog tenacity. In February we will be sending a representative to your conference in support of a Department of Peace for the second year in a row. The other is Freedom From War, the nurturing network of the amazing David Dionisi. When I spoke to you in Marin of the possibility of your accepting FFW’s Lightning Rod of Courage Award, you appeared open, but a conflict in your October schedule prevented. David and I intend to renew this proposal with the approach of the second FFW Week of Peace this coming fall.

Meanwhile, the purpose of my present letter is to bring to your attention a project with which I have become familiar in my attendance of the Davis-based FFW—one that would be the perfect complement to a Department of Peace, as well as represent the perfect longterm follow-through to your current proposals for extricating ourselves from the morass of Iraq. Here we come to the connection, made through FFW, that possibly adds a third grassroots project to my citizen involvement list: working with People’s Lobby to implement its American World Service Corps. Its generator and dynamo is a man named Dwayne Hunn.

In the year 2000 Dwayne Hunn decided to revisit haunts he had served as a young man in the Peace Corps, doing so as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity in India and Sri Lanka. Dwayne, the Executive Director of People’s Lobby and of the American World Service Corps, has regaled groups such as Freedom From War and the Peace Pyramid in the Sacramento vicinity with many uplifting stories. The tales he tells run to a gladdening close: whole villages of folks who come to view Americans not as an army of occupation and exploitation, but rather as ministering angels.

Unfortunately the arms of U.S. world service are feebly staffed at this time. The Peace Corps, for instance, while still in operation, has a serving base of only around 7000, compared to some 15,000+ in its peak years under the encouragements of the Kennedy administration. History leaves us JFK’s immortal summons, Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country... From the ashes of this all but forgotten idealism rises the phoenix of Dwayne Hunn’s dream and mission: American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals to build a volunteer service corps of one million can-do Americans. These proposals would engage already existing core organizations such as Peace Corps, Habitat for Humanity, AmeriCorps, Headstart, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, etc., asking not simply what we can do for our country, but what we can do for the world.

I think you know better than most how difficult it is to change a myopic world view. Well, good proactive laws (like Brown vs Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act) change people’s perceptions as well as involve them in doing good.

As a remarkable visionary leader yourself, Congressman Kucinich, you can surely appreciate the embracing dream of Dwayne Hunn... Think of quelling terrorism through our friendly acts instead of creating terrorists by our violence. Imagine legions of the peaceful and productive going forth to assist with the next disaster such as Katrina, a tsunami, or an African genocide. Such a fulfillment, hand in glove with a fully realized Department of Peace, can only be viewed as a consummation devoutly to be wished. I suggest that the AWSC is the very army that the Department of Peace needs in order to implement many of its goals of spreading peace, understanding and successful projects at home and abroad.

With these considerations in mind, please answer these few questions in your response:

1) Are you aware of the AWCS Congressional Proposals www.worldservicecorps,us?

2) Pondering the text at the website, do you not arrive at conclusions similar to mine?

3) Will you cosponsor and help lead this legislation to passage in Congress, and educate people about it on the presidential campaign trail?

I look forward to any insights that may occur to you in response.

Yours cordially,

Dr. Thomas J. King

916-728-2391

tjking@rcip.com

Faxing of this letter to the Washington office would be a greatly appreciated favor.