THE OLD VET

You newbie veterans are not alone, we old vets have the same problems you are having. I will no longer go to urology because on my last visit I waited four (4) hours in an exam room in a tiny gown, for a cysto, I am a diabetic and had nothing to eat all day, and I had to get dressed to leave when they begged me to stay. Everything was closed when I got out. It is not the staff who is at fault, it is the top rulers who set the example for the staff to follow. Those rulers ordered the use of paper plates, and everyone followes there example of what they consider as respect. There real motto is to cure them enough so we can label them cured and be done with them. I can remember when the VA was allowed to represent a vet and help them to get there disability rating, just like the VFW or The disable veterans org does now. I remember when travel pay was good and nothing was deducted from it like the Fargo VA does. I remember eating on real plates in the cafeteria, and proudly to people to the VA to eat at the cafeteria. Yes, I can remember a VA system that was for the Vets, and there was no greater respect shown anywhere. So as good as it seems, it is nothing like what we once had.

RESPECT OUR VET'S

The Fargo VA hospital serves your food in there cafeteria on paper plates, now that's showing the respect they have for our Veterans. I think we should serve our men and women in congress there food on paper plates to show our respect for them, I bet they get a food allowance to buy food at a fancy restaurant. How did our servant's in Congress become more important then our combat Vets? Now tell me how many restaurants would be able to get away with this in the private sector? Do other hospitals with cafeteria's serve food on paper plates? But of course it will remind them of the good old days on the combat field eating C and K rations. People, we did not send them on a vacation in Paradise, when we sent them to war. Do our recruitment posters say fun in Iraq? Enough already...

WHAT HAPPENED

The great America paniced, when we got hit on 9/11, they saw the sky falling and rushed to push it back up without thinking about the consaquences of there actions. So they ended up with a huge tower to heaven, but everyone started speaking a different langrage, so they had to quit. They forgot that we cannot reach heaven even today with our mighty rockets. We were so full of hate that we forgot we were so broke that we had to cut the programs our Veterans needed to balance the budget, and our old war debt was the cause of our budget problems. So we took that debt and made a tempory fix, that would make it easer to deal with if we didn't have any more costly wars, because we didn't think there would be any more costly wars. This was our second big mistake, We need a law that will add a war tax and a VA tax on any war we fight to pay for the war and to get our VA ready for our wounded, because there will always be a costly war as long as we have no law to keep our presadents from going to war when our society is volerable from panic, and going to war would have to be extreamly important before we would go to war.

The first mistake made was after the vietnam war, when we got rid of the draft because we thought there would never be another big war, and we turned on our Veterans for the same reason, we would never need so many of them again. Now our troops have to go back to war over and over again because we cannot get enough troops to replace them. The all volentary army failed big time and our troops now are suffering because of it and we still think that this is the last war also, so we will never improve our VA system, until these new vets start fighting the government for there rights.

If there were a draft, the VA would be like before, the best we could give our returning troops, because so many would have to serve and fight, who now set back and allow the VA to fade away to save tax's. But of course if there was a draft there would no longer be a war, because it was protests by our own troops during the Vietnam war that helped end it. But the government forgot is that a long war will cause the enlistment of a lot of troops that will become veterans, and when they start speaking out watch out. One other thought, if those fighting today find out they fought for not, there will be a bad taste to deal with as they take on those who did this to them.

RUN-A-WAY TRAIN

I was reading the Bertha newspaper and was shocked by the stories about the Veterans, our troops coming home with little help from our government VA system. So shocked that I created this blog to do my part to help them.