{This blog is not affiliated with the VA. Though a Veteran, four yrs. all shore in Navy last year In-Country Vietnam, I don't work for the VA}
**USN All Shore '67-'71 GMG3 Vietnam In Country '70-'71 - Independent**

In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!
At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!
DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!
Especially for the Corporate and Wealthy Community, investors in Defense Industries, and for these, Afghanistan and Iraq, came Two Huge Tax Cuts, with more sweetheart deals to same from states and the fed!!


Thousands of people across America don’t just talk about honoring Veterans; they walk the walk. Dedicated Volunteers Serve Veterans for Decades

On this Executive Administration, it's Cabinet and those directly around same, "Best - Ever": "We haven't had this kind of visibility from the White House—ever." Joyce Raezer National Military Family Association - Dec. 30, 2011, and plenty more of similar since Joyce, others, spoke and continues!

Ask yourself: If the Veterans Administration is so corrupt and mismanaged, as the conservative ideology, under which the seeds of are planted when they control, wants everyone to buy into as they obstruct the budgets and do extremely little after they charge same, then why does the Private sector, many problems within rarely heard about, adopt so many practices and advanced technologies developed within the VA, for free?! The VA, DoD, and in partnership with Universities and Colleges, not just Health Care are constantly in R&D and that developed that works is quickly moved into the private, for profit, sector, even as the VA is long under funded, decades, and especially during and after our wars that the few are sent into!

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President Obama 26 August 2014
Fact: "This is not just a job of government. It’s not just a job of the veterans’ organizations. Every American needs to join us in taking care of those who've taken care of us. Because only 1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars, but 100 percent of Americans benefit from that 1 percent. A hundred percent need to be supporting our troops. A hundred percent need to be supporting our veterans. A hundred percent need to be supporting our military families."

Fact: "We’ve been able to accomplish historic increases to veterans funding. We’ve protected veterans health care from Washington politics with advanced appropriations. We’ve been able to make VA benefits available to more than 2 million veterans who didn't have them before, including more Vietnam vets who were exposed to Agent Orange. We’ve dedicated major new resources for mental health care. We’ve helped more than 1 million veterans and their families pursue their education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill."

August 26, 2014 - Secretary Robert A. McDonald's Remarks for the American Legion's 96th Annual Convention, Charlotte, NC
Fact: "Unlike, P&G, VA may not be concerned about quarterly profit and loss statements or shareholder value, but it does have a bottom line—Veterans. "
{which is why No Government agency should be turned into a private corporate entity feeding for profit off the Countries duty and responsibility, especially the VA}
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Fact: “We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

Facts: Matthew Hoh {former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan}: "We spend a trillion dollars a year on national security in this country."
"And when you add up to the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, Veterans Affairs, interest on debt, the number that strikes me the most about how much we're committed financially to these wars and to our current policies is we have spent $250 billion already just on interest payments on the debt we've incurred for the Iraq and Afghan wars." 26 September 2014

Fact: "If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Fact: "12 years also is a long time. We now have a lifetime responsibility to a generation of service members, veterans and their families." Dr. Jonathan Woodson 11 Sep. 2013: With 9/11 Came Lifetime Responsibility
 {two tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, came with these two recent unpaid for wars, nor the results of, DeJa-Vu all over again from the previous decades and wars from! Ignore the many issues, by those served, no need to fund!}

Fact: Sen. Bernie Sanders told Republicans: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.” February, 26th, 2014

Fact: 25 June 2014 U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Veterans' Affairs issue an 'all too similar' scene

Fact: How We Could Do More For Our Vets: "We need to go into debt to pay our debt to U.S. veterans to make sure they get the care and services we owe them."

Fact: “Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!


Bob Herbert Losing Our Way : "And then the staggering costs of these wars, which are borne by the taxpayers. I mean, one of the things that was insane was that, as we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration cut taxes. This has never been done in American history. The idea of cutting taxes while you're going to war is just crazy. I mean, it's madness." Bill 'Moyers and Company': Restoring an America That Has Lost its Way 10 Oct. 2014

Presidential Proclamation -- Veterans Day, 2013: "As we pay tribute to our veterans, we are mindful that no ceremony or parade can fully repay that debt." read more>>>


Under two previous Executive administrations and wars from, father and son. With son and conservative congresses leading the extremely quick abandoning of the missions and those sent to accomplish after 9/11:

ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
"DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War."

Part Two: A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?

Army Says War Records Gap Is Real, Launches Recovery Effort

3/27/15 - U.S. Nerve Gas Hit Our Own Troops in Iraq
"During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today."
"When Brown and others tried to obtain their medical records to prove their illnesses were service-related, they learned that the records had disappeared."



Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by the Shinseki Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!

How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!


"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan" - President Lincoln

She wrote that she's proud of her service but added this: "That doesn't change the fact that I contributed - however indirectly - to human beings vanishing from the earth in a moment of sheer agony."



Homeless Veterans/Stand Downs

Are You Concerned About a Veteran? The Veterans Crisis Line Can Help>>>

For our sisters: National Women Veterans Hotline, call 1-855-VA-WOMEN1-855-VA-WOMEN (1-855-829-66361-855-829-6636) New Hotline now up and running

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Bergdahl Captivity: 'Knock the Poser Patriotism Off!!!'

It's actually worse then being a Military Poser, way too many attempt, and way too constant among way too many in a Country based on the Rule of Law and Freedoms under it's Constitution that has developed into 'I want mine and you can't have yours if it isn't my wants!', your interpretations of that Constitution and even religious teaching's of Jesus!!

So quick in changing the meme's, in only hours, from your Total Lack of Support on Veterans Issues, mission accomplished as to that target since telling the Military Truth on Gen Shinseki has been fulfilled, and trying to give cover to your Obstructors!! As quick as your full support to abandon the missions and those sent after 9/11 as the drums beat louder with each lie, you fully supported those lies and policies!! Probably also deflecting from the recent news that the British Iraq War Inquiry final report is soon to finally be released!

You all could care less about the Military, their Families, the Wars and Sacrifices and Us Veterans!! If you did you would have started long ago, instead of flag waving cheering Poser Patriotism, and Demanded Those Served Sacrifice As You Demand Those Serving and Their Families Do! Especially Them Wealthy Who Reaped More From Their Investments In With Help From The Rubber Stamping Conservative Congresses and the policies they quickly jumped on board for!!

You show, once again, how little you understand the Military Community and everything Military, if there's questions on Bergdahl those will be addressed within the Military Community as Dempsey stated: "Army will investigate Bergdahl for desertion" now that he is safe and out of theater and in the Military's hands!! It also shows the use of military personal/veterans as political pawns, Again, on purpose by them as to the politics or through the propaganda machines talking heads seeking out any, including so called intelligence experts, to speak what you and thus your legions want to hear!!

Statement by Secretary of the Army John McHugh on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
June 03, 2014 - Secretary of the Army John McHugh released the following statement:

"As an Army, we are grateful that an American soldier is back in American hands. The warrior ethos is more than words, and we should never leave a comrade behind.

"Our first priority is ensuring Sgt. Bergdahl's health and beginning his reintegration process. There is no timeline for this, and we will take as long as medically necessary to aid his recovery.

"As Chairman Dempsey indicated, the Army will then review this in a comprehensive, coordinated effort that will include speaking with Sgt. Bergdahl to better learn from him the circumstances of his disappearance and captivity. All other decisions will be made thereafter, and in accordance with appropriate regulations, policies and practices."

Those who've served with Bergdahl and taking microphone time, those so called Intelligence experts, those who served in these recent long run theaters of operations, should fully understand what Dempsey and McHuge are saying. The oh so many Posers joining the FOX speak, like them, certainly don't. They haven't a clue about the Military and only seek some sort of glory by claiming they do and so called support for those who've actually sacrificed serving them!

The Military, over these long five years, have questions, many probably answered shortly after he went missing. They weren't going to do the rovian political speak of letting on what position they feel Bergdahl took and the why he did. Their main concern was hoping the Taliban wouldn't kill him so they could get him back alive and get answers to their questions directly from that source, still a U.S. Army soldier, reason they also awarded him the rank increases during captivity. He also can give first hand first person valuable intelligence about those five years with the Taliban band or bands he lived with, they also really want that. Those speaking out now, by the way you're the only ones I see using 'Hero' in trying to condemn others as using, should have and should stay very quiet, especially any Military, Veterans of and so called Intelligence experts, until the Army and full Military do what they would always do and you should know that, it's no big top secret with that community!! That's what the Uniform Code of Military Justice - UCMJ is all about, or are you now rewriting that, in your own twisted minds, as well!! Your rubber stamped extremely expensive private merc army didn't fall under that nor any laws!!

06/03/14 - Right wing organizes bashing of American POW - Rachel Maddow reports on the passion and outrage with which the American right is objecting to the return of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl, rejecting the longstanding American principle of leaving no soldier behind.

06/03/14 - Right ignores due process in zeal to condemn American POW - Patrick Murphy, an Iraq War veteran, former congressman, and the host of “Taking the Hill” on msnbc, talks with Rachel Maddow about unexpected passion on the right for leaving an American soldier behind in Afghanistan as a prisoner of the Taliban.

The way I read what has so quickly cropped up is that you're calling on this country to revisit All those cases of personal held captive or missing in action, how about sunday mornings with Sen John McCain, and investigate whether they were traders, especially the Prisoners of War's, All Of Them, for it's your 'patriotic' interpretations and those are your gospel! How about disbanding the DPMO - Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personal Office in the Pentagon and our Government. After all it's very expensive, and we all know how little you want to Sacrifice yourselves, and so would be adding investigations of those remains found to those previous from All our wars, still being brought home, to find out if they were as 'patriotic' as you demand they be just like you all are!!

They're Still Coming Home:

Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For

May 27, 2014 - The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Army Pfc. James R. Holmes of Warren, Ohio, will be buried May 29 in Arlington National Cemetery. In November 1950, Holmes was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, which was pushing north through North Korea to the Yalu River. In late November, the unit was attacked by enemy forces and withdrew south to the town of Anju. On Dec. 1, 1950, Holmes was declared missing in action. read more>>>

Decades and Wars of of NOT fully 'Sacrificing', especially this past decade plus with two tax cuts coming with these wars, while Ignoring the So Many Issues and Laying Blame on the Civil Servants of the grossly under funded, with wars and long occupations, Veterans Administration, only a tiny few it will be found were corrupt personal and not interested in their charges nor duty to!!!


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