How about fewer wounded vets?
November 11th, 2009 by John Grooms in Boomer with an Attitude
Today is Veterans Day, and the nation is having its annual festival of hurrahs and heart-tugging nods toward the flag. And then, if the past is any indication, the country will go back to giving veterans about 2 seconds’ worth of thought each day.
Hopefully, though, the past won’t be a guide this year — not with the recent massacre at Ft. Hood still fresh in our minds. Nor with reminders from VA Secretary Shinseki that veterans “lead the nation in homelessness, depression, substance abuse and suicides.” Nor with a new study revealing that more than 2,200 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance. The Obama administration deserves credit for its array of efforts to improve the lot of veterans, but there’s still much more to be done.
One important thing the President can do is establish policies that would drastically cut the number of wounded vets coming home from some Third World hellhole, starting with getting American soldiers out of the hopeless, never-ending mess that is Afghanistan.
November 11th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
The reason there are so many wounded soldiers that that they did not die like they would have in past conflicts.
How many people lived due to a lack of health insurance goofy boy! So many people each year show up to the emergency room for care or pay for it out of there own pocket. Leave it to Grooms to use meaningless or misleading stats. Maybe Obama should call him out on it.
there are also much easier way to get money for college. If this is why you joined the military you have got to be pretty stupid.