Originally Posted by Tarfoot

Yep the US has a very shameful history of poor treatment of our vets. I have yet to understand how not only our government, but quiet a few of the very people our troops served during the Vietnam War were spat on when returning in the airports. Yes people literally spat on them.


Oh yes, but what is shown/reported in the media,,, is soooo different> they are all welcomed 'HOME' and all heros..right? === NOPE..


I myself did not ever serve in the military but would have if I had been drafted. We had the draft lottery when I was 18 yrs of age and my number was up in the 200's which made me safe from the draft. My daddy didn't raise no fool, so I wasn't about to join up for that war.


Kudos to your Daddy Tarfoot,,,


It's been nearly 2 decades since I last saw the hospitals that injured Vets were in.. and maybe 3-7 years since I last investigated if things had improved for Vets... they HAD NOT..AND so many were medicated to stop complaining about the mental and physical pain they were enduring..


Even our Vet Hospitals have been much under the gun the past year for there failure to take care of our vets. Just plum shameful is all I can say and my tax dollars wasted.


Well done to the person that FINALLY got the attention of the US media- so many have tried for so many years - BUT, the US media are controlled on what they can report - - even those in Press Conferences in the White House