ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov. 14 -- The Georgia Public Policy Foundation issued the following news release: "Veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they've suffered the scars of war. We can offer them no better tribute than to protect what they have won for us. That is our duty. They have never let America down. We will not let them down." President Ronald Reagan, 1986 Six days after a bitter presidential election marked by assassination attempts, comparisons to Hitler and di more PR