Another part of the closing down-of-the-American mind is reflected in recent news that the military's Tricare insurance concept for veterans and their family is leaving many brain-victims unaided in the years following combat or combat arenas. Â Tricare is using the same head-in-the-sand pseudo-science that the anti- Prevention of Climate-Change Folks have used so well over the past decade.
"Tricare, an insurance-style program covering nearly 4 million active-duty military and retirees, says the scientific evidence does not justify providing comprehensive cognitive rehabilitation [to American war veterans). Tricare officials say an assessment of the available research that they commissioned last year shows that the therapy is not well proven."
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OUTRAGEOUS COST ACCOUNTING AND BAD FOR ALLÂ
Tricares' treatment of American veterans of war is just the tip of the iceberg for the total lack of progressive peace and positive developmental consciousness required at the state federal, national, and international levels.
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As a lifelong progressive for peace (with great leanings towards non-violent action rather than war to solve conflict issues), I have been concerned for decades as to how one-sided or biased both the American family and its educational communities ARE WHEN IT COMES TO TEACHING YOUTH ABOUT THE REAL COSTS OF WAR.
This disgruntlement  needs also to include the super-ignorance promoted by mass-media for not mentioning most every real human and capital cost, i.e.  when reporting on war.  (Most of the time, American media has simply served as a propaganda arm for the powers that be---i.e.  brazenly glorifying America's military power and its ability at times to put pressure on less blessed nations around the globe.)
Naturally, my concern has turned to dismay at times, especially, as in 2008, I received a copy of an AARP's article entitled dated that told America's growing numbers of retired citizens that they would soon have to care for younger American generations--who are victims of political and global bullying or war-mongering. Â Â
That article was entitled,"When Wounded Vets Come Home". Â
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 DESIRE FOR ALTERNATIVE REARING OF AMERICANS
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I have shared elsewhere how in the months leading to the Coalition Gulf War with Iraq in 1991, I was astounded that my own high school students were being recruited in the hallways and cafeteria of one large Kansas high school (where I taught 1990-1991) to join ROTC as well as the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.  Meanwhile, other students' (of mine's) parents, who had already been serving/training in the Kansas National Guard  over the previous decade, had already been mobilized themselves and sent to Saudi Arabia by October 1990. (NOTE:  Yes, one national guard center was headquartered across the street from that same high school.)
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