What percentage of homeless veterans are men and what
percent are women?
Isn't a small percent of the homeless claustrophobic people who prefer to sleep "under the stars"? If you provided them with a palatial mansion, they would remain uncomfortable.
During the week that this column was being written, the Huffington Post carried a story indicating that the politicians in Washington D. C., are hesitating on taking action which would protect members of the military from predatory conduct by financial institutions.
What percentage of the politician who vote for such ridiculous nonsense are veterans and how many are fat cats who have never served in the military?
Medical care for vets is a perpetual topic for
politicians.
Are veterans being treated poorly?
This Saturday is Armed Forces Day but the weekend editions
of the nation's newspapers and the Sunday gabfests will be rife with calls for
railroad safety, tributes to B. B. King, and snide remarks about JEB Bush's
family loyalty. It seems quite likely
that there will be damn few pundits using the occasion of Armed Forces Day to
call for improving the treatment of homeless veterans.
What's not to love about corporate shills tricking young men with some all American bait and switch salesmanship chicanery to lure them into a lifetime of misery and pain?
What percentage of "our boys" who were killed in action during WWII, died before they were old enough to cast a vote to re-elect the politicians who had sent them off to the war?
There was a popular axiom during the Vietnam era that said; "Old soldiers never die . . . young ones do."
The disk jockey will play the Pogues song "The band played 'Waltzing Matida," Johnny Cash's version of "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," and the song "Smile for me, my Dianne." We have to go and re-watch "Coming Home." Have a "Seventh Heaven" type week.
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