American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial

[Jackpine Radical]

9. My rant had nothing in particular to do with

anything you posted; you most certainly did nothing wrong. The rant was just triggered by my sense of the contrast between the sentiments of the memorial and the reality of what is happening to so many vets. Sort of like all those little yellow "Support the Troops" magnets.

Thank you for telling me about your father. It's tragic that this country is so willing to create disabled veterans but so unwilling to take responsibility for what they have done.

I can imagine Republican Congresscritters (and not a few Democrats) walking past that memorial and saying to themselves, "Oh--That reminds me. We have to figure out some way to cut the VA budget."

I often meet with a group of friends, 3 of whom happen to be disabled vets (that's just coincidence; the group is just a coffee klatsch of guys who enjoy each other's company.) One of the three recently got a satisfactory resolution to his disability claim after several years of fighting with the VA. The other 2 of us are still pending, after about the same number of years.