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In reply to the discussion: I wept today.... [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)My wife spent two years working in some super-depressed areas as an AmeriCorps volunteer. It has had a profound impact on who she is and what she believes (and has trickled to me too, I'm sure).
I never understood why the focus for service is always focused on the vets and war. A lot of people do a lot of hard work and make a difference in our country and nobody gets hurt as result.
For what it's worth, I'm totally disabled as a result of PTSD from Iraq. I hate it when I'm thanked for my service. My service was squandered and in no way made our country or the world a better place. Some veterans have done some great and selfless things, but that wasn't me and my era of Iraq veterans. Bush and company wanted to kill as many Arabs as they could after September 11th and were pissed off to discover that ethnically Afghanis aren't Arab. So they had to go somewhere else to get their Arab blood.The war on Iraq was about nothing other than revenge on Arabs in general for September 11th. It didn't matter that none of the terrorist responsible for September 11th were from Iraq. They were Arab and they are all the same to a large swath of our citizens.