There is a story at the link below which accuses the government of ignoring the plight of our returning injured war veteran's. Our men and women in the armed forces should be treated with respect and dignity. The politicians on the right and the left purport to care for the troops, each in their own way. If this is so they should be able to get together and fix whatever is broken with the Veteran's Affairs system, so these injured warriors can get the care and benefits they were promised.
Tuesday, Injured Iraq war veterans filed a class action suit against the United States Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday, "accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment" reports CNN. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco on behalf of thousands of veterans, alleges the VA failed to provide prompt disability benefits or extra staff to reduce wait times for medical care among other criticisms.
Hopefully, this will wake our politicians up, and make them do the right thing, without having to wait for a lawsuit to wend its' way through the court system, and bring about the needed changes to assist the past and current injured veteran's, in obtaining treatment and benefits. The system may need to be overhauled to handle the larger than expected number of injured troops. I think the truth is that they just were not equipped to handle this many people and were overwhelmed and underfunded.
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