http://joscafe.com/2007/02/21/walter-reed-probe Live, Laugh, Love Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:28:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://joscafe.com/2007/02/21/walter-reed-probe/comment-page-1#comment-127895 Ailine Watterson Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:01:50 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/02/21/walter-reed-probe/#comment-127895 You know it gets me in the guts! I am free because of thee! Our men and women suffer indignities every day in the Military hospitals and nursing homes. And I have always been an advocate. But just recently, my brother who was a POW and had abt. 10 or more medals, wounded in Vietnam, came stateside and went another tour, shot on duty as a MP on base went to surgery, they left scrapnel in him. It causes cancer. It goes into remission, goes into the hospital for stomach pain, of course by now he is an incomplete paraplegic, it took them so long to find that he had an intestinal blockage that his body began to starve itself and the cancer went rampant, he died less than 2 months later and that is suppose to be the end of the story. Walter Reed is pitiful, but because the conditions are pretty and clean, does not mean that there aren't rats and black mold in other quarters. How about a man in WWII, lost his hearing, but because his wife got a divorce from a previous soldier and married him, he was turned down a pension until the details of the divorce could be investigated. Well that has been about 15 yearss and still can't get through. There are so many wrongs. The President and all his men sat so pompous because the men and women, the foundation of who and what we are, have been giving their blood freely and this is what they get. I love my country too, but the price is way too high for those who actually serve it. You know it gets me in the guts! I am free because of thee! Our men and women suffer indignities every day in the Military hospitals and nursing homes. And I have always been an advocate. But just recently, my brother who was a POW and had abt. 10 or more medals, wounded in Vietnam, came stateside and went another tour, shot on duty as a MP on base went to surgery, they left scrapnel in him. It causes cancer. It goes into remission, goes into the hospital for stomach pain, of course by now he is an incomplete paraplegic, it took them so long to find that he had an intestinal blockage that his body began to starve itself and the cancer went rampant, he died less than 2 months later and that is suppose to be the end of the story. Walter Reed is pitiful, but because the conditions are pretty and clean, does not mean that there aren’t rats and black mold in other quarters. How about a man in WWII, lost his hearing, but because his wife got a divorce from a previous soldier and married him, he was turned down a pension until the details of the divorce could be investigated. Well that has been about 15 yearss and still can’t get through. There are so many wrongs. The President and all his men sat so pompous because the men and women, the foundation of who and what we are, have been giving their blood freely and this is what they get. I love my country too, but the price is way too high for those who actually serve it.

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