Veteran’s Day, 2018

It’s Veteran’s Day, and I recently saw this video and it just nailed me. It broke my heart. That this can be happening in America is a shame, and I mean that literally and an outrage. The fact that there are around 7,000 foreign invaders headed for our southern border and that we should even entertain the thought of allowing any of them in, and giving them any kind of social services or benefits is a disgrace. And to the “do-good” helping hand out private social groups that would help the invaders but are not helping our Veterans first? You are a sham, you are a sham and a fraud.

Someone made the comment to me recently about people not wanting the caravan in the country because they look different than we do. What utter B___ S___. חרה to put it plainly.

I’m not a man, yet I would imagine the vast majority of the veterans in need of help are men. I’m not a black, or a Mexican, and only a little Native American, nor am I Asian. But we have homeless veterans that are, and I can promise you, I care far more about them than I do any illegal invader. No matter how pathetic CNN (#FakeNews) makes them look. We owe our veterans. We owe them a debt of gratitude for their service, and we owe them far more help than they are getting.

With the Demoncratic win in the house, I do not expect to see things improve for them at all.

At the end of the video there is quite a list of agencies should you choose to check them out. I reached out to a friend for some solid leads, and that’s what these are.

War Horses for Veterans https://warhorsesforveterans.com/

Special Operations Warrior Foundation https://specialops.org/

Fisher House Foundation https://www.fisherhouse.org/

Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program https://www.yellowribbon.mil/yrrp/

Lead the way fund https://www.leadthewayfund.org/

And now, the video.

These are the statistics given in the video. Just in case you get caught up in the story and don’t absorb them, here they are to read over.

300,000 Veterans sleeping homeless on the streets, and rising.

Over 1.4 million are at risk of becoming homeless.

More than 67% of homeless Veterans served our country for at least 3 years.

Divorce rate among military couples has increased 42%.

An estimated 460,000 veterans suffer from PTSD.

Homeless veterans spend an average of 6 years on the streets.

The veterans administration has resources to serve only a fraction of our veterans.

Nearly 5000 veterans die by their own hands every year.

This is a large part of the list given at the end of the video, if I linked it, the link is active at the time of writing. Some in the video aren’t, and this is not the full list, but it’s a bunch of them.

Boot Campaign https://www.bootcampaign.org/

American Ex-Prisoners of War http://www.axpow.org/

American Forces Network http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/

American Gulf War Veterans Association http://gulfwarvets.com/

American Legion https://www.legion.org/

Blinded Veterans Association http://www.bva.org/BVA

Call of Duty Endowment https://www.callofdutyendowment.org/

Code of Support https://www.codeofsupport.org/

Disabled American Veterans https://www.dav.org/

Heartstrings for Heroes https://heartstringsforheroes.com/

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) http://iava.org/

Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors https://www.homesforwoundedwarriors.com/

Lone Survivor Foundation https://lonesurvivorfoundation.org/

Marine for Life http://www.usmc-mccs.org/services/career/marine-for-life-network/

Operation Second Chance https://operationsecondchance.org/

Paralyzed Veterans of America https://www.pva.org/

Ride To Recovery http://projecthero.org/

Semper Fi Fund https://semperfifund.org/

The Battle Buddy Foundation https://www.tbbf.org/

The Enlisted Association https://trea.org//

The Raider Project https://www.raiderproject.org/

Veterans of Foreign Wars https://www.vfw.org/

For those of you who have served in the military, you are heroes. You are my hero, I don’t care if you peeled potatoes or washed sheets. Your families are heroes, because they served in their way right along side of you. You put aside your own life to serve our country, no matter your circumstance in life now, I ask G-d to bless you and your family, and bless ya’ll richly.

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7 thoughts on “Veteran’s Day, 2018”

  1. I am a veteran.

    For ten years, I received a paycheck at your expense. I received three hots and a cot at your expense. I received healthcare at your expense. I received college assistance at your expense. If I’d done another ten years, I’d be getting a retirement check and healthcare for life at your expense (if I turn up with a “service-related disability” I’ll get that healthcare at your expense as well). And all I had to do to get all that was be willing to kill people I’d never met and had no beef with because some other government employee told me to.

    Waah. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Tune up the world’s tiniest violin at how badly you treated me and are treating me. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

    The immigrants, on the other hand, have asked you for absolutely nothing except to stop trying to run their lives.

    Damn right I’ll try to help them out, if for no better reason than that they’re already better “Americans” than the people bellyaching about them ever will be.

    1. I’m sure you won’t mind when I kick in your door and demand you pay for all my needs especially when I tell you to go “F–K” yourself.

      1. No, I won’t mind at all. Although I’m not sure how you’re going to be telling me anything with that .40 size hole between your running lights.

        A set of gang turf lines along the Rio Grande isn’t your door, nob.

  2. I’m a veteran, too. 11 years+. Up till now I thought I had it pretty cushy compared to other services. Didn’t always get the three hots. Didn’t always get three _meals_. When I got the meals sometimes it was just the old MREs, the dehydrated crap. Or C-rats. The boxed stuff in Desert Shield? Don’t know what some of that was…

    All too often it was literally a cot… in a tent… when it wasn’t a hangar floor or troop seat on a 130 or 141. Sometimes my housing was in buildings even the Air Farce had condemned. Other times, the housing was decent except for being on a remote mountaintop off in a desert somewhere. Which was good, because when you’re snowed in — we lost the D7 dozer we used as a snowplow in one snowfall — for months at a time, living conditions matter.

    I crawled through swamps, sweated in deserts, and froze my ass off above the Arctic Circle.

    I lost accrued leave due to years of flat out denials (“No, we can’t afford you to be gone.”) and recalls.

    Free medical? That would be nice. Usually none available. We lost one guy to a heart attack because the one enlisted medic in the _region_ (and an hour away even so) got reassigned without replacement, and the nearest care authorized was a six hour road trip. Happily, the time my leg was torn open, my duty station was only an hour from the nearest care. Oh, and thanks to my postings, I’m permanently disqualified as a blood donor. Being an involuntary participant in a medical experiment was fun; at least we got extra blood testing.

    Fortunately, I still haven’t come down with any cancers from the long-term RF and X-ray exposure.

    Pay checks? I mostly got caught up, but even that got screwed up a few times. Not shorted: NO paycheck. For a couple of months.

    College? Nope. Not for my era. We had VEAP, which sucked so badly no one bothered signing up. Last time I checked, I still hadn’t been grandfathered in to any of the GI bills.

  3. It’s heartening to hear of you good success with the VA and it’s medical care. But a quick search would seem to say that the video is far more representative than one persons good fortune.

    VA still plagued by problems two years after scandal https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/3/va-still-plagued-by-problems-two-years-after-scand/

    Mr. Cooper said it’s taken the VA two years to propose firing three senior leaders responsible for the Phoenix VA scandal, “which led to nearly 300 veterans dying waiting for care.”

    Timeline: The story behind the VA scandal https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/21/veterans-healthcare-scandal-shinseki-timeline/9373227/

    The VA Scandal: Two Years On https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/04/va-still-unreformed/

    The Veterans Affairs–​scandal headlines speak for themselves. The Daily Beast: “Veteran Burned Himself Alive outside VA Clinic”; azfamily.com: “Dead veterans canceling their own appointments?”; New York Times: “Report Finds Sharp Increase in Veterans Denied V.A. Benefits,” “More than 125,000 U.S. veterans are being denied crucial mental health services,” and “Rubio, Miller ask committee to back VA accountability bills.”

    Two years ago this week — thanks to courageous whistleblowers in Phoenix and a fed-up House Veterans Affairs Committee chairman — the world was finally exposed to rampant VA dysfunction and corruption. Dozens of veterans had died while waiting for care at the Phoenix VA — which was, unfortunately, just the tip of the iceberg. Across the country, VA officials had manipulated lists to hide real health-care wait times. In total, thousands — and possibly far more — met the same fate: waiting, and dying, at the hands of a calcified and soulless bureaucracy. Investigations were launched, and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki eventually resigned.

    This is not a new problem.

    The Veterans Affairs Scandal Was Decades in the Making https://newrepublic.com/article/117855/veterans-affairs-scandal-was-decades-making

    One year after VA scandal, the number of veterans waiting for care is up 50 percent https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/06/23/one-year-after-va-scandal-the-number-of-veterans-waiting-for-care-is-up-50-percent/

    One year after an explosive Veterans Affairs scandal sparked national outrage, the number of veterans on wait lists to be treated for everything from Hepatitis C to post-traumatic stress is 50 percent higher than at the same time last year, according to VA data.

    As to the immigrants wanting nothing more than for me to stay out of their lives, that can easily be accomplished by them not invading our country. Because that is not quite a true statement. The illegal invaders do impact our lives.

    Illegal alien killed 3 after release from custody in New Jersey https://tmp.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/illegal_alien_killed_3_after_release_from_custody_in_new_jersey.html

    And that’s actually not all that isolated an incident.

    Conclusion: criminal and illegal aliens commit murder at much higher rates than all inhabitants of the U.S. – at least 3 to 10 times higher.

    Full article here: Illegal Aliens Murder at a Much Higher Rate Than US Citizens Do https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/illegal_aliens_murder_at_a_much_higher_rate_than_us_citizens_do.html

    And then there is what I was getting at in the article, social services, money, taxpayer dollars going to illegals instead of Veterans.

    Why is it that Illegal Aliens Get Free Food Stamps, Health Insurance and Pay No Taxes? https://thelawdictionary.org/article/why-is-it-that-illegal-aliens-get-free-food-stamps-health-insurance-and-pay-no-taxes/

    What Benefits Can Illegal Aliens Receive? https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/james-l-seward/what-benefits-can-illegal-aliens-receive

    Report: Majority of Illegal Immigrant Households On Welfare https://freebeacon.com/issues/report-majority-of-illegal-immigrant-households-on-welfare/

    Illegal Immigrants Get Over $1,200 More In Welfare Benefits Than American Families A Year https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/05/11/waitillegal-immigrants-get-1200-more-in-welfare-benefits-than-american-families-n2161305

    And from the always popular GAO Illegal Aliens:
    Extent of Welfare Benefits Received on Behalf of U.S. Citizen Children https://www.gao.gov/products/HEHS-98-30

    As the NY Senator said, while they may not be entitled to benefits, they apply for them and get them.

    So I would say the illegal immigrants are not nearly as benign as you believe, or hope.

    Regardless of any of this, our Veterans deserve far better.

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