1, 048, 00 soldiers have served to date of that 180,000 have come home permanently disabled

Which is a rate of 18.35% of all Americans sent have come home permanently disabled to never be the same, never is able to go back to the life they knew before?. They knew it was dangerous, they knew they might not ever come home, but they assumed that when they came home injured or seriously disabled they would be looked after, money would be no object. The federal government flaps their jaw at every chance about how wonderful the care is. We have a badly burnt ex-soldier on dancing with the stars, while every other vet has to dance a jig just to get basic competent service.

Have we learnt nothing? My brother came home from Vietnam in the early 70’s his heart soul and sane mind came home ten years later. He went through alcoholism , drug addiction, hepatitis C, and mental break down, while My mom a single mother of 7 had to beg for welfare hospital care. My brother, my brother-in-law a dozen cousins 3 uncles all served with valour and all were left high and dry by their government. Commentators recorded soldiers coming home to protests with pigs blood and red paint thrown over them and cries of baby killer, the government blamed those “damn hippies”. Once the hippies went back to their Volkswagens and bongs, the care given out by the VA was no less abusive.

Fast forward from 1974 to 2011, a man or woman comes home with a limb missing they get immediate surgery and rehab and prosthetics, A man or woman comes home with closed head injury from their brains being shaken like they’re in a blender from a road side bomb and the current wait time for any care what so ever is up to four years.

18 returned veterans a day commit suicide from mental health issues and the feelings of failure from returning home to nothing , They unemployment and in many cases foreclosure because their wage was cut greatly while their serving and yet these veterans while not declared disabled Obviously are in need of support they never see.

The promise when a Soldier goes to war is that “we never leave a man behind” that’s wonderful, but when you bring them home that’s when the desertion begins. So America start standing up for the men and woman who stood up for us, it’s our turn to serve.

Here is a Link to veteran’s affairs document on disabled treatment http://iava.org/files/VeteransWaitingForCareAndBenefits_0.pdf

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