We always sent our brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers to war with the promise that in return for their service, we would do whatever necessary to make them whole, or treat them unselfishly for the physical and psychological sacrifices they made. The hard reality has oftentimes been that politicians waved them off to war with encomiums about their heroism, only to fall silent when it came time to appropriate real money to heal them. That is, until they were shamed by scandal into doing so.