[snippy_about_it]

My mother served as a WAVE in WWII at Ford Island and is treated today in Virginia at her local Veteran's hospital/clinic.

They see very few women and treat her like a queen. She has nothing but praise for the staff there. Her service too has been recognized and that is a good thing. We do sometimes forget the women veterans who served as well.

While I'm at it, we often hear horror stories of the Veterans Affairs hospital and clinics and granted they could use much improvement. However, I know from too much experience both in Ohio and Virginia that the staff, many of them veterans themselves, and especially the veterans who work serving our veterans, have the very best intentions and work with what they have to treat our veterans needing their services the best they can.

There are good and bad in all the hospitals and clinics but most to blame is the funding of and administration of those hospitals. You can only do so much with the money given. It needs to be more.

</rant >

[WaterDragon]

That is so neat about your mom, that she was a WAVE. During the Vietnam war there were many, many nurses. Those are the only women I know about who were military then.

Recently there was a small article about vets in, I think, a southern California town, who had been begging the Vets Admin for years for a hospital there. Then the government suddenly decided to build a hospital....exclusively for the illegal immigrants! It felt like such a slap in the face to the vets. They were outraged and rightly so. Those men certainly seem to consider a Veterans Hospital something very desirable indeed!