One of the better writeups, with many backlinks, on Veterans actual support seen in a looooong time, read it, I'm just giving the link and a short cut, and pass it on!!
Supporting the troops
11 July 2010 Last week, the New York Times had this encouraging news:
The government is preparing to issue new rules that will make it substantially easier for veterans who have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability benefits, a change that could affect hundreds of thousands of veterans from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
The regulations from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which will take effect as early as Monday and cost as much as $5 billion over several years according to Congressional analysts, will essentially eliminate a requirement that veterans document specific events like bomb blasts, firefights or mortar attacks that might have caused P.T.S.D., an illness characterized by emotional numbness, irritability and flashbacks.
For decades, veterans have complained that finding such records was extremely time consuming and sometimes impossible. And in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, veterans groups assert that the current rules discriminate against tens of thousands of service members — many of them women — who did not serve in combat roles but nevertheless suffered traumatic experiences.
That, as much as anything, underscored the fundamental change in treatment of U.S. combat veterans now that the Obama administration has replaced Bush-Cheney. For all the blather about patriotism and supporting our troops, the reality is that to Bush-Cheney, patriotism was mere political jingoism and the troops were mere cannon fodder and props for photo ops.
Now to get the rest of the Country off their phony meme's and Actually "Support" those that serve them and the families of!
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