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I'm getting a little tired of all the whiners. These guys are getting recompense from their "employer" for their disability. This is money they get for life. But there's always someone looking to try to get more of something for nothing.

I have to listen to my dad every month or so whining about being a "notch baby" and getting screwed by the government because someone is getting more social security payment than he is, just because he was born in a certain year. Then I get to listen to him whine because he was in the Merchant Marines during WWII and he got screwed there, too, no GI Bill and until recently no medical help, either. Reminding him that he's not lying in a ditch crying out for help doesn't seem to make him feel any better about it. Someone, somewhere has a better deal than he does and it's JUST NOT FAIR! It gets old, real old.

One of the problems is that there is too many whiners who deserve nothing, and complicate the system for the truly deserving. I have a brother that is one. He complains of every malady (sp) known to mankind, when in truth, there is nothing wrong with him. He claims to be a viet-nam vet (he ain't), claims to suffer ptsd from the mortar attack he was in in Thailand (he wasn't), and the new catch-all of fibromyalgia. Hell, he is healthier than I am, but he sees a government hand out, and his hand is. God bless the true veterens.

I am a retired disabled vet, and I appreciate the compensation I receive from the VA for my injuries. Injuries that cost me my ability to earn a paycheck in the civilian world. When you retire at 43 and have a family to raise what are you to do? Does begging on a street corner sound about right to you?

That's not the point. I served more the 20 years in the USAF and earned my retirement (pension)