American citizens' attitude toward and relationship with their veterans is a remarkably strange dynamic. When soldiers are called upon to fight they are lionized (as in "support our troops") but once they return home they are pretty much forgotten and left to fend for themselves. How many vets become the forgotten and maligned homeless?
American citizens' attitude toward and relationship with their veterans is a remarkably strange dynamic. When soldiers are called upon to fight they are lionized (as in "support our troops") but once they return home they are pretty much forgotten and left to fend for themselves. How many vets become the forgotten and maligned homeless?
How does an entire class of people (soldiers) go from being "noble warriors" to maligned, property-less, worthless vagrants? I think this says more about America than the people it conscripts to fights its (often pointless) wars.
I concur. Additionally, migrants receive all manner of assistance while veterans are cast aside sans assistance, as though they are disposable lives. It’s awful, really.
Being cast aside with no assistance confirms that, to a predatious Government, intent only on conquering the resources of other countries, our Veterans ARE disposable lives once they've served their purpose.
How a country treats its most vulnerable, speaks volumes.
Disgracefully, this is not a new problem. For example, the few survivors of the charge of The Light Brigade at Balaklava during The Crimean War in 1854 were also "pretty much forgotten and left to fend for themselves," as you so eloquently describe.
American citizens' attitude toward and relationship with their veterans is a remarkably strange dynamic. When soldiers are called upon to fight they are lionized (as in "support our troops") but once they return home they are pretty much forgotten and left to fend for themselves. How many vets become the forgotten and maligned homeless?
How does an entire class of people (soldiers) go from being "noble warriors" to maligned, property-less, worthless vagrants? I think this says more about America than the people it conscripts to fights its (often pointless) wars.
I concur. Additionally, migrants receive all manner of assistance while veterans are cast aside sans assistance, as though they are disposable lives. It’s awful, really.
Judge them by what they do, not what they say.
Being cast aside with no assistance confirms that, to a predatious Government, intent only on conquering the resources of other countries, our Veterans ARE disposable lives once they've served their purpose.
How a country treats its most vulnerable, speaks volumes.
Indeed, it does. I cannot state this enough…it is truly sadistic.
I don't think it is the American citizens attitude towards veterans, but the American politicians attitude, which can be completely different.
If you ask the majority of citizens, I think they would want more resources to go to veterans, but we are never asked.
Disgracefully, this is not a new problem. For example, the few survivors of the charge of The Light Brigade at Balaklava during The Crimean War in 1854 were also "pretty much forgotten and left to fend for themselves," as you so eloquently describe.