Your city or local communities may be seeing same, if you're paying attention, that has happened here. A drastic rollback in funding for local Veterans Issues help offices, some shutting down, all looking at possible further cuts coming.
Children at Operation Purple Camp dance on the beach during an outing to Del Mar Beach at Camp Pendleton. The children of servicemembers wounded in war gather together in a camp designed and established by the National Military Family Association. By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY
22 November 2010 - The four Else children of Waukesha, Wis., saw their Marine Corps father off to war in Afghanistan again this year. But this was the first year they learned they were not the only kids to lose a parent to combat duty.
The children — Julie, 16, Christopher, 12, Waren, 12, and Nica, 8 — spent seven days in July at a northern Wisconsin camp immersed in outdoor activities with scores of other military kids with deployed parents. They learned, says their mom, Kim, "to have fun and smile and not worry all the time."
About 10,000 military children have flocked yearly to these camps run by the National Military Family Association.
Now, much of their good times could come to an end.
The largest individual donation ever made to charities supporting Iraq and Afghanistan troops, veterans and their families has run out: $275 million given from 2005 through 2009 by Californian David Gelbaum. Dozens of non-profits now face drastic reductions in services ranging from mental health treatment to care packages mailed to far-flung combat outposts.
About 100 requests by convalescing troops for airline tickets to travel home over the upcoming holidays have been turned down in recent weeks because of a funding crisis for Air Compassion for Veterans, says Ed Boyer, president of the organization.
Needs continue ... or get worse {read rest}
See the children and families of the Soldiers are as non existent as the Veteran and especially the homeless Vets, just ask o'really, unless of course you need to wave that patriotic{?} flag and use empty words of 'support!!
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