Service to Country, in our modern small 'c' capitalism , latter 20th and as we've seen the now 21st century, means those called 'captains of industry', in the economy those in banks and on wall street etc., can do as they please with no need to worry about being called out for their corrupt individual wealth enhancing practices. Certainly doesn't mean serving in the Countries Military and ordered into wars of choice, which generate wealth for those 'captains' as well, are on the same plane as those corrupt and lawless 'captains', while at war with a Law that's suppose to protect them!
January 31, 2011 - There are millions of sad stories in the collapse of the nation's housing market and the often-heartbreaking foreclosures that continue. But few are as disturbing as those involving America's fighting men and women who have been dispossessed at home. It isn't enough to face death and destruction, particularly those who are part time soldiers called to active duty from the reserves and National Guard units. Now adding to their worries is the threat of coming home to nothing despite a federal law that is designed to prevent that.
But guess what? The legendary gnomes of the banking industry, it seems, don't pay much attention to the law, at least when it comes to the Civil Relief Act that states unequivocally that service members on active duty are spared many of the legal consequences of their forced absences. Their homes are protected from foreclosure among others. Yet it has taken some banks a long time to get it right -- the entire decade of two wars and tens of thousands of call-ups. Surprise!
In one blood boiling example, cited by The New York Times, a combination of apparent violations by a major international bank and a subsidiary of an American institution not only cost a young National Guardsman his hard won property but maybe his marriage. He is still fighting in court six years later. His house and acreage were sold at auction by the sheriff and his wife and two children were, so to speak, put out on the street. {continued}
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