The reason I make my observations is because I think back and compare today’s soldiers against the men who fought in World War II. Certainly there were a lot of shellshocked soldiers coming back. Certainly there were a lot of battle scarred veterans who never fully recovered. PTSD was a term we never heard of back then, but that is what many soldiers had.
But now? With tens of thousands of veterans who are suffering mental illnesses, veterans who are homeless, veterans who are depressed and even killing themselves at rates that are off the charts. Especially compared to veterans from 50 and 75 years ago. What changed?
I think we all know the answer to that. Our culture is pathetic. Unless and until America returns to its moral, fiscal, and social sanity, we will continue to fail the very men we send out to protect us.
“Unless and until America returns to its moral, fiscal, and social sanity, we will continue to fail the very men we send out to protect us.”
I look at it as a two sided sword. We might be failing them, but the system is causing them to fail themselves also. And they are being taught that the failure is acceptable. And many of the repair actions being advertised are even closing down without the military member noticing it.
And the public is being conned into the gist that we care so much about them while the government is trying like hell to find ways to cut the services going to them because the feds over spent themselves like giving money to countries that can’t pay it back and are only taking a handout because it is offered. Charity begins at home. But it isn’t looking that way.
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