Parades for Returned Vets While Same Soldiers Still Sent

I like parades, though over the years they've seemed to become over marketed towards commercialization in our failed economic growth based on consumption by the masses of products now produced elsewhere, and for the reasons many are held.

They're great especially for families, especially those with youngsters and even community joining together, rare indeed.

But certain ones being argued for now have a couple of 'Huge Buts' attached to them!

On one side we have this:

DOD Supports Parades When All Combat Troops Return

Feb. 8, 2012 – Pentagon officials say they’re all for a “New York-style tickertape parade” honoring combat troops who served in Iraq, but bowing to the military leadership’s wishes, agree that the best time to do so is after all combat troops have returned home from Afghanistan as well.

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Douglas B. Wilson told Lynn Neary of NPR’s “Talk of the Town” program the Defense Department fully supports homecoming celebrations for Iraq War veterans. read more>>>

The other side brings us this, and from, righteously so, many in the veterans community especially, but far more from the greater population that doesn't serve nor do their young:

History shows regrets for waiting too long to celebrate vets

Charlie Dooley, St. Louis County Executive, Vietnam veteran and supporter of the first Iraq Veterans Parade in the U.S., talks with Rachel Maddow about why he was in favor of a parade for returning Iraq war veterans in St. Louis and why a national parade in New York City is a good idea.

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The country 'regretted' waiting so long to 'welcome home' us Vietnam Vets, quaint for those of us who actually served in.

But they don't 'regret' ignoring us on the oh so many long term issues as to our wars of choice and the veterans of!

Back then, except for the always real caring citizens where still many are starting up and succeeding with organizations and programs that continually have to fight for funding needed to operate and possibly grow, tiny handfuls of among the greater population, they ignored us on PTSD which has always been, they still ignore on Agent Orange defoliants, but finally though this present VA and Executive Branch has managed to stop some of that as only a few tried previously and failed, but the citizens of Vietnam are still lied to and are only helped, recently again with millions towards cleanup, not enough for the couple of generations later who've lived with the results of our choices of wmd's.

The country always ignores the homeless vets and reasons for why, again till recently, and so much more.

Then it pushed for a war with Iraq after the leaders gave a wink and nod to Saddam about invading Kuwait, soldiers returned and country had parades but once again ignore the veterans of, most prominently related to Gulf War Syndrome, again only starting to get help in the last few years. I could go on and on but it all boils down to citizens wanting to spout how patriotic they are only to ignore, again and again, their own responsibility and the guilt of, though it seems many no longer feel guilt about anything, in not fully funding the Government Agency who's purpose is for the Veterans of the Country who Serve It. It was bad enough in the previous decades after our wars but blatantly so in the previous decade that's still ongoing.

With these two wars of choice, leaving the main mission and reasons for one invasion to only grow and expand in years to invade and occupy another country finally, after some eight years, officially ending, the country was told to go shopping with the masses tiny tax cuts, as gas prices started growing rapidly, but oh the wealthy with their huge tax cuts and expanding write offs invested either directly or indirectly in the defense machinery and no bid private contractors of the ever profitable defense industrial complex especially in war times, big or small, and are still reaping those profits.

Have parades, while not thinking about what this past decade of have wrought, wave those flags and cheer for the veterans of the wars you cheered on and sent them into, many over and over again, and many being sent into what was the main mission long ago abandoned, 'But' if you aren't, and especially any politician using them for political gain, Demanding Your Own Sacrifice for the results of, fully funding the VA finally, which will save the Government, us, money, then these parades are no more then the magnetic ribbons no longer around, or the U.S. flag lapel pins, still there but hollow decoration, and especially the hollow meanings of the oh so patriotic words and phrases used by everyone, they are not fulfilling the responsibility the country has towards those who serve and some die in supposedly defending this country and it's greater masses who don't serve!

No Revenues = No Sacrifice = No Support = DeJa-Vu all over again!. Now a decade and counting added to the previous decades of under funding the VA, while the peoples reps Still try and lay blame on the Agency, after rubber stamping wars and costs of and those represented cheer on these wars!

While the wealthy and other investors garner their booty, still, from both and many have the chutz·pa to call themselves more patriotic{?} then others wrapped in those false flags, using false slogans and various cheap symbols of!