This is a rant on how poorly veterans are treated: Parades twice a year on Veterans and Memorial day don't make up for poor treatment.
I think that they should be honored more than twice a year on Veterans and Memorial day.
I get a bit cynical - NOT in anyway towards the soldiers and Veterans but towards the media and politicians who make a holiday with parades about this twice a year.
My uncle served in WW TWO in some of the worst fighting in Germany and got no honors. Instead he came back and was an alcoholic due to post traumatic stress disorder. Back then it was just call "shell shock" and no one helped the men with that.
My father wasn't in a combat zone but was stationed in a hell hole doing what needed to be done. He contracted amoebic dysentary which ruined his health but was denied benefits because having constant diarrhea wasn't considered battle related.
I've known many men who did their duties and came back unhonored and physically and emotionally scarred.
I sure do think that vets should be honored (women vets as well) everyday not just twice a year.
And no I never was in the military (even if I wouldn't have been 4F which I was always lead to believe I would have been my father never encouraged it. Since I was 18 shortly after the end of the Vietnam War he saw how poorly those veterans were treated. I sure hope that those vets from the middle east are treated better.
Now the liberal bleeding hearts cry about the dropping of Atomic bombs on the Japanese as they drive their Toyotos and Nissans. They don't acknowledge the lives (both Japanese and American) that were saved by quickly ending the war.
I do indeed think we should honor the Vets everyday.
Sorry for the ramble and I know that as someone who was never in the military I probably have no moral right to make it. However due to my freedom of speech that the military preserves for us I can.
I see that B. O. the "commander in chief" who never server in the military proclaimed Memorial day as a day of "Peace" - http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...l-proclamation-prayer-peace-memorial-day-2013
Peace of the dead I guess; America's DEAD SOLDIERS!
I think that they should be honored more than twice a year on Veterans and Memorial day.
I get a bit cynical - NOT in anyway towards the soldiers and Veterans but towards the media and politicians who make a holiday with parades about this twice a year.
My uncle served in WW TWO in some of the worst fighting in Germany and got no honors. Instead he came back and was an alcoholic due to post traumatic stress disorder. Back then it was just call "shell shock" and no one helped the men with that.
My father wasn't in a combat zone but was stationed in a hell hole doing what needed to be done. He contracted amoebic dysentary which ruined his health but was denied benefits because having constant diarrhea wasn't considered battle related.
I've known many men who did their duties and came back unhonored and physically and emotionally scarred.
I sure do think that vets should be honored (women vets as well) everyday not just twice a year.
And no I never was in the military (even if I wouldn't have been 4F which I was always lead to believe I would have been my father never encouraged it. Since I was 18 shortly after the end of the Vietnam War he saw how poorly those veterans were treated. I sure hope that those vets from the middle east are treated better.
Now the liberal bleeding hearts cry about the dropping of Atomic bombs on the Japanese as they drive their Toyotos and Nissans. They don't acknowledge the lives (both Japanese and American) that were saved by quickly ending the war.
I do indeed think we should honor the Vets everyday.
Sorry for the ramble and I know that as someone who was never in the military I probably have no moral right to make it. However due to my freedom of speech that the military preserves for us I can.
I see that B. O. the "commander in chief" who never server in the military proclaimed Memorial day as a day of "Peace" - http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...l-proclamation-prayer-peace-memorial-day-2013
Peace of the dead I guess; America's DEAD SOLDIERS!