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reply posted on 12-11-2007 @ 01:57 PM by roadgravel
reply to post by marg6043
Vets, Please accept my thanks, it is appreciated.

To marg, my thanks to you also. Thanks for being there through the thick and thin for a vet and there when he returned.



reply posted on 12-11-2007 @ 02:14 PM by grover
As a veteran, abit one who served in peace time... I can say that in all honesty it is a hollow gesture.

Rather than thank a vet better to work towards making this a world where we need no more veterans, wounded, maimed or dead.

Failing that make your voices be heard and do what you can to pressure your lawmakers into making sure the VA and the hospitals are fully funded and that our government would keep its promises to us veterans.

from article www.alternet.org...

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday by the Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit.


And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.


The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.


The Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. Data from 2005 estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans.



also from Alternet.org an article about an increase in suicides of Iraqi veterans.

www.alternet.org...

The tolls of war are always too high.

[edit on 12-11-2007 by grover]


reply posted on 12-11-2007 @ 02:41 PM by grover
reply to post by nyk537


Sorry but that attitude simply does not cut it... the issue of veterans has been politicized since the bonus marches of the early 30's if not before and at the heart of it is the fact that the government, no matter which party that is in control makes all sorts of mealy mouthed noises about honoring its veterans, and then screws them every which way but loose.

This administration is no different, and in fact is in a lot of ways far worse, but still they all do it. And given the fact that it is the administration, regardless of party, whose politics are behind the wars that make injured, deceased and maimed veterans...

... politicans, who odds are never served, who sing their praises while cheating them, is obscene.
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