[Chainmail]

While the Iraq war was going, I used to visit Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital to talk to some of the casualties returning from the war. I discussed the changes that they would have in their lives from their wounds and from the stresses of combat, since I went through my own recovery after my time in Vietnam.

I was overcome by the courage and dignity of those young people and it reinforced my faith in the quality of these men and women who volunteered for the dangerous work of fighting for our country. They were and are our best.

Those of us from my generation will never let our new veterans experience the hatred and ingratitude that we found after we came back. It's still out there - the same liberal/Leftists are pushing their unpatriotic anti-veteran poison.

Never again.

[xuberalles]

I agree. It’s a travesty that some have so little regard for our veterans, their plight, and yet the fact they are free to spew their political nonsense and ingratitude is because of those very men and women they slander with their ignorance. Unforgivable.