Thursday, May 04, 2006

About Those Who Have Felt The Pain. . .

. . . and buried the mistakes

To quote Rambo:"I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilt his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That's what I want! "

Let's not let it all happen again.

The Blog | Dan Lohaus: For Soldiers Returning From Iraq, Another Battle Awaits | The Huffington Post:

". . .These homeless Vietnam veterans are all in their early sixties and in poor health. I really felt that if something wasn't done, many of these guys would end up just dying on the streets. I tried to imagine what it was like for so many of these guys - having to go through combat in Vietnam and then come home to a country which has basically swept them under for the past 30 years.

Once the war in Iraq started, so many of the Vietnam vets I interviewed told me to keep an eye out for the Iraq Vets coming home. They told me that not enough had changed in the last 30 years in this country to keep another generation of veterans from ending up homeless as well. They were right.

The film tells the story of Herold Noel, an Iraq War veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living in his car in Brooklyn, railing against a system that has failed him and struggling to survive after returning from the war.

He's not alone. The first article about homeless Iraq War vets appeared in the Boston Globe, just a year after the war in Iraq had started. There are now over 500 homeless Iraq War vets across the country and we MUST do something to stop history from repeating itself."

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