Posted on Mar 31, 2014
I loved this when I saw it, how many of you feel the same way?
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True and to the point, this is the blood, sweat and tears of every veteran who has every served.
Thanks for posting and sharing.
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I really like this and I think I'm going to steal it. Thanks for sharing.
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SPC Charles Brown
You can't steal what you are telling me you are going to take. -1 for being a bad thief. +1 for the sentiment.
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I think that is pretty much how we all feel. It only changes when we get out and see that apparently we are the only ones who acted on our beliefs, and we become liabilities to our government. I say that with sadness, because I, and countless others, have fought with the VA VBA ever since we got out. 35 years and counting in my case.
I do it now as Vets-Help.org. Memorial Day is not just a day to honor our dead - it is a day to remember and fight for the living who have not yet come home emotionally - and the silent victims, their families.
May God Bless us all as we hear taps this weekend. I pray one day our families can be made whole. Not to be treated like foreign invaders or unwanted stepchildren by the very government who manufactured them by putting us in harm's way - for whatever ulterior motives our political and economic leaders have.
And I pray that we learn that bombing other peoples in their own homes only makes more enemies.
And finally, I pray that those nay-sayers collecting government paychecks get religion and stop violating our rights and killing us off by not treating us. To not finish us off with the chemical, biological and emotional traumas we were exposed to as soldiers - and in many cases have now inflicted on our families.
One of my buddies was in the 5th Group in Viet Nam. His assessment about the casualty rates was that one third died in combat, one third died from Agent Orange, and one third died from self-medication and suicide. In his case there are now only two remaining members of all the teams he was on.
God help us - As Pogo once said "we have met the enemy, and he is us."
I do it now as Vets-Help.org. Memorial Day is not just a day to honor our dead - it is a day to remember and fight for the living who have not yet come home emotionally - and the silent victims, their families.
May God Bless us all as we hear taps this weekend. I pray one day our families can be made whole. Not to be treated like foreign invaders or unwanted stepchildren by the very government who manufactured them by putting us in harm's way - for whatever ulterior motives our political and economic leaders have.
And I pray that we learn that bombing other peoples in their own homes only makes more enemies.
And finally, I pray that those nay-sayers collecting government paychecks get religion and stop violating our rights and killing us off by not treating us. To not finish us off with the chemical, biological and emotional traumas we were exposed to as soldiers - and in many cases have now inflicted on our families.
One of my buddies was in the 5th Group in Viet Nam. His assessment about the casualty rates was that one third died in combat, one third died from Agent Orange, and one third died from self-medication and suicide. In his case there are now only two remaining members of all the teams he was on.
God help us - As Pogo once said "we have met the enemy, and he is us."
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I love it, I had seen this on Facebook and had it as the wallpaper on my computer for a long time. Thank you for sharing.
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