THIS is what our soldiers are coming home to in Bush's Amerika?!

[Obamarama]

This guy has given 15 YEARS of service to our country and THIS is what he gets in return? It is appalling that this can happen. There's a link at the bottom of the news story if anyone wants to make a donation to help this family out. I did.

HOMEFRONT FALLS APART FOR ONE VET
A 15-year veteran of the National Guard, Robert Workman, was called to active duty in January of 2003. In April of that year, he suffered a serious back injury. Since Robert's medical discharge earlier this year, things on the home front have fallen apart.
In fact, Robert was recently served with eviction papers. Plus, he has already had his car repossessed. Now, he is a living example that not all military homecomings are happy ones.

-snip-

Tammy Workman, Robert's wife, says, "The eviction is because we hadn't paid July's rent and hadn't paid August's rent yet. I honestly thought he'd come home, go back to work and everything would be fine." However, everything changed when Robert was injured while on active duty. He was assaulted in Iraq while guarding a camp for civilian workers.

-snip-

Robert submitted a claim to the VA in March. As time marches on, he has yet to receive a response nor has he been able to perform his civilian job building H-2's at AM General.

Tammy remarks, "We've been to the Salvation Army, the Family Christian Development Center. It's just been trying to get out of the hole we're in right now because everybody thinks somebody else is handling it."

http://www.wndu.com/news/082004/news_36834.php

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I wonder if someone

at the town hall meeting debate could ask Bush what he's going to do to help this guy. Seems to me that would be a very good question to ask him.

[opihimoimoi]

3. There better be something for this guy and all the others like him

or there be holy hell to pay....

[Mari333]

2. Used up and thrown away...these stories should be all over the news now

when Michael was sent to Iraq, he was sent with scoliosis of the spine. That, in and of itself, was illegal..the army lost his X rays..(conveniently)...now, he is there and I know he is getting NO care for it..and when he gets back, who will pay for the damage thats been done? can I send our family's counseling bills to the White House? straight to them? Can we all send the bills to Cheney? God knows that piece of shit can pay them.
Justice isnt being done..those assholes need to be in jail for what they are doing and have done to the soldiers and their families..

[Kanary]

4. Family Christian Development Center.....?

Is this another fine example of "faith based charity"?

I hope this is a clue to all the conservative military families.

We all need to vote in our own best interest.

I hope they all get enraged..... as enraged as all of us are to be reading about this crap.

Kanary

[Tsiyu]

5. How Can Any Vet Vote Now for Bush?

He has shown utter contempt for our servicemen and women.

He has put them in harm's way for $$$$$ rather than for the legitimate purpose of defending their native land.

He has betrayed them by supporting and abetting military leaders who believe in torture and rape of prisoners and their children.

His administration has dismissed the Geneva Conventions as not worth the paper they were printed on, putting our soldiers in grave danger and destroying their reputation around the world.

His admin has done everything and anything humanly possible to try to cut and/or deny benefits to Vets.

His greed, his cowardice and his enmity for the working class in America are antithetical to the position he holds, as he took a vow to uphold a Constitution he now desecrates and destroys with abandon.


The fallout of his actions will rain down on America for generations.

No Vet in his or her right mind would support this criminal and draft dodging alcoholic. This story is one of many. But the media doesn't "love" the soldier enough to tell this side of it most of the time. If only the media and George could be swept away by a hurricane. Then, maybe our Vets would be treated with dignity and compassion.

[bacchant]

6. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS (as cannon fodder) n/t

[vetwife]

7. This is the tip if the iceberg.....Thats why we are marching virtually

Monday on CNN to let them know they never report REAL NEWS !

[CityZen-X]

8. Help The Workman's

I just sent an e-mail to the reporter who wrote the story about Robert Workman.
His name is Mark Peterson, and I requested an address so I can send a check to help out this fellow American. click the address at the top.
http://www.wndu.com/about/contact.php

[skygazer]

9. Yup, this is how * supports out troops

In my opinion, the way the military and military families have been treated is one of the most shameful legacies of this jerk's presidency. He's fighting a war on the cheap by using NG troops for lengthy deployments but he won't give them full benefits or assist their families in any way. They are put in situations for which they've received little or no training (Abu Grayb anyone?) and they're expected to do the work of regular Army. It's disgraceful and I wonder how many military families are fed up with it. Only thing is, a military base is like the least open place for dissent so I'm sure most of them swallow it.

Edited to add - and WE'RE the ones who supposedly don't support the troops!

[jmowreader]

10. This is what the soldiers came home to in the last Bush Amerika

A Bush tradition seems to be Attacking Iraq. His daddy did it, and he did it. And letting the soldiers get their homes foreclosed also seems to be a Bush tradition.

When his daddy did it, he sent lots of National Guard doctors to Iraq...when they came home six months later, some of them had lost their homes, their businesses and so on because army pay ain't even close to civilian doctor pay. That war was only six months long, including the build-up. This one won't end so long as there are Republicans in the White House.

You guys like dissing my employer, but check this shit out: when the war drums started beating, Atlanta Store Support Center distributed a memo. A lot of our associates are military-affiliated, either active-duty troops who are moonlighting, full-timers who are in the reserves or National Guard, dependent spouses...What they wanted all of those people to do is to bring in their pay stubs from all of their jobs, whether military or civilian. Each store's bookkeeper sat down and figured out how much income each one would lose if they went to the Middle East. (Yes, we did this for the troops who went to Afghanistan too.) If you got deployed to the Middle East, they did a very complex calculation: they figured out what that soldier would make if they were stationed out of the war zone and paying taxes on a full-time base-pay military paycheck, subtracted that number from their total pre-war income, and sent the troop a check for the difference--and this will go on until the war ends. Note what we are not calculating in: combat pays, special-skill pays, tax exemption...(We are paying for the program in a rather unique way: Home Depot has a GSA Schedule, and we have ways of tracking purchases the military makes; this is just one of the joys of having two mainframes in the back room. This is the money that pays for the program. We are distributing some of the profits from our military sales to the soldiers who work for us--and as of right now, we're not using all the military profits for our soldiers.) We have eight core values; one of them is Taking Care Of Our Own. Letting Our Own lose their cars and homes isn't taking care of them.