• lambovet said on Feb 20, 2007....

  I've been to WRAMC and it is similar to Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. The hospital is a group of buildings, and of course the main bldg where the VIP's go for photo ops is spotless and shiny. The others are, dare I say it, less so. That is why I say, have Congress make a declaration of war and then we'll see how many of our politicians support our troops. Fund the war and fund the Veterans Administration, present that budget to the American people in toto, and stop this phony crap of supplemental appropriation.

• bloc said on Feb 20, 2007....

  I couldn't have said it better. 

• kruuyai said on Feb 20, 2007....

  What never ceases to amaze me is that, considering the well publicized way that the US government has treated vets ever since the Vietnam war, people continue to enlist in the military... to support a government that, quite obviously, doesn't give a rat's ass about them. 

• bloc said on Feb 20, 2007....

  I enlisted when I was 17 years old. I must say that most young people don't know history or the world well enough to think about it in that way.

• Muckraker said on Feb 20, 2007....

  When I was teaching, the local national guard would come and put on slide shows, music the kids liked, and then gave them this big spill how they could get their college paid for, if they would join the gurard.  They targeted juniors, the age I taught.  The next day in class I made it a point to tell them very candidly, yes they would get nice educational benefits, but, once they joined and were trained they could also get sent anywhere in the world and possibly die fighting a war like the one that victimized me and 2 million other viet vets and killed 58,000 of them, and damaged thousands more, both physically and mentally for the rest of their life.  I was not on the guards favorite teacher list, but I could have cared less.

• BlueHotRage said on Feb 20, 2007....

  bloc:  Countdown is another show that I watch avidly (when not feeding my internet addiction).  I think Keith Olbermann is a very skilled speaker--I don't know if he writes his own commentaries as well (be they report-related or special), but if so, the vast majority of them are extremely eloquent.
   
  Muckraker:  You remind me a lot of my high-school U.S. History teacher.  The Guard never came around our school--Berkeley's probably not a big recruiting ground--but we still got the straight info on Vietnam.  More power to you, sir.

• lambovet said on Feb 20, 2007....

  Kruuyai,bloc; what you guys say is true enough, but you know that as much as I detest some of the people in the current administration, when I hear the Star Spangled Banner I still get goosebumps. When I hear Taps I get 'em as well. If you have ever heard a military band strike up Sousa, you can (sorry, I can) be seduced by the martial music. Brainwashed, perhaps?

• SeeingRed said on Feb 21, 2007....

  We can talk politics all day long concerning this war. A good place to start as an individual to help an individual at WRAMC is www.woundedwarriorproject.org

  Support Our Veterans!

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