[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!

[snippy_about_it]

That's shameful. I really wish we had more coverage on those issues. It's bad enough our "greatest generation" has had to suffer from bad administration of VA hospitals and it would be good to correct the errors before our Vietnam Veterans the age our WWII vets are now. Grrrr.