This is how America takes care of its heroes.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMELESS_VETERANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Yep. The latest plasma tv is more important.

And how many more will there be after this latest fiasco is finished?

How many more damaged, broken people, abandoned by their country and their countrymen and women?

Lots of young men and women will be coming home mentally or physically broken.

Because they don't look at them as Heroes, they are just retired employees for them.

Our shameless government takes no hostages. It leaves them to fend for themselves.
Sorry, I am so shocked at what our soldiers go through and live with and without.
Kat

War ,even when over,has everlasting concequences.

yet those in congress leave with full pay and beniFITS


hhhmmmmmmmmmmm

well actually that is true.. the guy that im kindve seeing is a vet and he is living in a dorm for recovery verterns that have gone through alot.. its dormitory as where you can stay there for as long as you need pretty much. he going to school and in 3yrs he will have his degree in human services

That's bull crap that the negative media influences want to think. There are plenty of programs thru the VA to help out any and all veterans. They offer shelter, vocational rehabilitation, medical aid, and fincial assistance.

I am a former marine and even though I did not serve in a war, I am eligible for compensation payments and health care thru the VA. If these veterans really wanted to be off of the streets and helped out, all they have to do is contact the local Veterans representative for their county and assistance will be provided.

Before critizing, maybe you should look into the subject and what IS being done. You can't just look at one source and say it is the truth.

Semper Fi

Some of these a holes don't just have benefits; they have bonuses and insentive and retirement funds and values up in the millions with insurance. After they leave the job.
Kat

war is terrible no one really knows how it wikk affect a person until put in that situation ppl that have never been there(lawmakers) think that thay may over look the problem and it will go away, i came home with a disoder called PTSD and a few others from my 2 years in a combat zone luckly the military takes care of thier own, now im a fully functional person that thinks we need to take a stand for our protectors of freedom

and war torn vets don't want to fight anymore. Let alone watch their neighbors bicker over melodramatic and useless and meaningless concerns that are not life threatening.

after killing and fighting on a primal level, coming home to argumentative and whiny citizenry can tip them over the edge to where they would rather disassociate themselves from the party.

Broken hearts and broken men don't always heal.

well, it is what it is...

I for one; do not have to look it up. I was married to a special forces man and know a few more that served in the Viet Nam war and also gulf war. Many have nothing to fall back on as far as help except for hospitalization. No real help. Some even are fighting to get the government to acknowledge their illness as a wartime illness. Rusty has many diseases from VietNam. Including the sores and lungs from agent orange or something like that. They do not want to call it that. He gets a check, he gets pills. He gets no satisfaction.
His family suffers and worries right along with him.
Kat

Oh and I have another friend that has many illnesses which his Drs. say are direct consequenses of the war. The medical Drs. the government wants him to see. But, they will not warrant him any help because they are fighting it saying he could have had it before the war and he has the burden to prove it. His heart and lungs and skin suffer.
Kat

Kat my ex-boyfriend was a medic in Vietnam and got the silver star. He was fighting agent orange and recently got disability for his diabetes...prayers to rusty and his family.

I was just fixing to recant and say that I have since learned that the government is now at least trying after all the outcrys from the people to do more and try and help them the way they should be. At least it is a start.
Kat

Quite often the physically ill , and the physically challenged are looked after, but ask some Viet vets how well they have been looked after...in many countries, here in Australia as well...then lets look at how well those suffering with mental health issues are being looked after..also the drug addictions created through their rehab...one being Morphine addictions...


I don't need to look it up...

And I don't speak from simple knowledge gleaned from the internet...first hand is always a realistic approach.

And the same question asked by many...Is the Defence force paying for your education, Fanta?

How well are you being looked after, and for how long.

Many mentally challenged ex vets are struggling...socialising, re-socialising into society, as will many of our ex Iraqi kids.

Why is it that yall worry about who is paying for my education?

Who payed for yours? Do you have one?

Paying ny tuition and books = "NOYFB," but the US government!

Military-NO!!

"NAFTA" My ****ing job was outsourced!!

I am a trained Lead Carpenter, but the illegal immigrants make it impossible to make a good living at that anymore! I could have went to Atlanta and ran a crew of 10 illegals, but after seeing my old American labor laid off to hire said illegals for half the wages, I decided not to be a part of the problem!

Principles are more important than money. After seeing those Americans and their families suffer losing their good jobs, I couldnt remain, and still sleep nights!

Some people seem to think this internet is the world, or in the foreigners mind, our whole country! For every one person I know that uses a computer regularly, I know 20 that dont and 10 more who dont even own a computer!

Most Americans will realize how true that is, but for the rest of the world communnitee; what you see looking through that little cloudy window at America, is not close to all of America!

The rest are even more bold and deviant! More apt to tell you to kiss their ass, and most of the more deviant, are veterans! "Funny how that works"

One thing too, is we will stand up and fight and we will band together to protect whats ours! From all enemies foreign (all) and Domestic (All, even our government)!

This one this government of ours, we know they are bad. More so than you. Soo, if you get your hand bit or your feelings hurt, then dont stick it in the cage!

We can handle it!