Posted on 10/24/2013 1:43:22 PM PDT by DFG
During last night’s World Series opener Major League Baseball staged a salute to our military heroes, complete with three living Medal of Honor recipients, including the newest, Will Swenson.
Likely similar tributes will take place two or three times during the remainder of the National Football League season too.
Giant flags will wiggle across the fields. Color guards will parade. The broadcast team will cut away to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan where troops in camo uniforms will wave at the cameras. There may or may not be a flyover by fighter-jets; those are mostly on hold because of budget cuts. Crowds will cheer. The announcers will praise our heroes. Everybody will feel good.
But Will Swenson doesn’t have a job.
He has been out of the Army and unemployed since 2011. Last week, his hair way-past regulation length, he put on his dress-blue captain’s uniform long enough for President Obama to drape the Medal of Honor around his neck. He has a college degree. He has the Medal of Honor. But he doesn’t have a job.
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Obama says......No....because...No.
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