Always some bad apples in the bunch and they should be weeded out but for so many honorable veterans to go down with them is disgraceful
It’s worse than you know, katie.
At a Legion Post I was member of, we had built up quite building fund. Well, we learned of a deal from the village that an old house had fallen behind in tax payments. We could pick it up for a few thousand.
We called a meeting and determined we could fix up this old house for maybe 10 to $20,000, which would include all the code updates. It was an old manshion that had been converted into a boarding house in the year 1900.
It had about 10 bedrooms, a big kitchen and a community room for watching TV and playing checkers, etc.
We estimated we could use the free labor of the legion members to maintain the place and rent out these rooms to retired vets for a small portion of their SS or vet retirement checks each month.
We’d provide a cook for two meals per day, a nurse visit twice a week and a house sergeant-at-arms for what the vets could pay.
The costs demanded by the fed bureaucrats and the state bureaucrats made the proposal impossible.
What we offer our vets is unconscionable for service provided. And so much could be provided by our service organizations. Just get the damn fascist government out of the way.
Cheers, FRiend