Posted on 11/04/2001 5:54:46 AM PST by B4Ranch
Hey dude! I wrote the President about this brother! You got a problem with that? TOO BAD! You come up with all these things which are bullsh*t solutions. First off, nobody was asking anyone of you to put this guy up in a room. ALL we ask for is that he gets his dog TJ back. This brother gave up body parts for your freedom ... you fool! But you lend credence to the meaning of the word ingrate. I suppose if we looked that up in the dictionary we'd find your picture under it. This man fought so you wouldn't have to.
This man was willing to at least try and do something patriotic by guarding the War Memorial and the flag, what have you done for your country? Thomas Northcut was harming no one, yet he was arrested and treated like a common criminal; yet we all support freedom of speech and allow traitors like Malik Shabazz to spew hate filled, anti-American invective on TV ... and do nothing!
Do you get the picture yet? If we allow the shabby treatment of just one combat veteran, or any veteran for doing something patriotic ... then we as a nation, are lost!
IF YOU LOVE YOUR FREEDOM, THANK A VET!
By the way ... I'M STILL SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY!
redrock
The anger here is NOT over a fellow Vet being homeless.
That was his choice and by all reports He has made a life where he is at ease with himself.
The anger here is over how He was treated,
Monuments are PUBLIC Property,
They belong to all of us,
ergo the city cannot put up a sign saying No tresspassing just to run off one man and his dog.
I have a friend,
perhaps that is the wrong word a buddy is more like it,
His name is Sandman and he's a Viet Nam Vet
Recently Sandman went through a change of fortune when his car was wrecked,
Because of the crash He was unable to walk without a walker,
His girl friend of fifteen years threw him out when he could not work.
He ended up in a VA halfway house while he healed.
He lost 60 lbs during his rehab,
and as soon as he was pronounced fit to walk,
The VA kicked him out onto the street
He had no place to stay, he had no car, and a job just barely.
He took to sleeping in one of the parks here in Miami.
I won't say which one because the park manager for this park sat down and talked to Sandman,
and decided to look the other way while Sandman stayed in his park.
The cops that patrolled the park at night knew Sandman was there
and said nothing
or stopped to visit with him during their rounds.
Every morning Sandman would wash up and hobble off to work,
No one the wiser,
But where ever Sandman had decided to rest his head was cleaner than when he got there.
I begged him to stay with me and my family, as did many of his friends.
He felt that he couldn't impose himself on anyone.
After a time Sandman went to live with his relatives in Ohio,
I still get letters and pictures from him and he is doing well.
Sandman never lived on the dole or welfare,
By his choice he turned down a 100% disability from the Government for the steel plate in his head
and the steel pins in his leg from wounds he recieved in Viet Nam.
When he was down, all he asked for was a place under the stars to lay his head
and those that could have run him off or arrested him gave him that,
but it was their's to give in the first place
Sandman had paid for it in his taxes,
his blood and his service to our country long time ago in the rice paddies of Viet Nam.
This Vet and his dog could have been better taken care of,
instead of treating him as a criminal, they could have treated him as Sandman was treated
with respect and with the sence that He was there for a reason.
Instead they treated him like $%@#!
Hince the anger!
TO ALL: Love our vets, because without them we wouldn't have any of the rest!!
Any Texans reading this, don't forget to vote.
Your tax dollars at work folks. Just keep contributing to the IRS and pretend nothing bad is going on!
Ah, so Stephen Jaffe is a medical or psychiatric doctor, or is quoting one here? It's interesting how the president of a company, Sam Georges and his artist wife, consider Thomas their friend, yet couldn't bail him out.
Treated like what? All you have read is a biased press release which smells to begin with. You haven't read anything in the press. No interview with the arresting officer, no mention of the reason for the charges. Perhaps his panic attacks are drug withdrawls, and he would be dead now if intervention had not happened. Who knows?
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