MEMORIAL DAY AND HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A VETERAN

My visit to a civilian medical center turned sour when, after 1 1/2 hours ending up on an examining table, under a gown, with nobody to attend me for over a half hour I left.

In the timed 38 minutes on the table my feet were so cold they hurt, my thigh was cramping under the cold.

I asked someone if there was going to be much longer and she said, "Are you a veteran?'" to which I replied, "Yes ma'am."

She said, "You'll have quite a wait." I heard a large women say to another, "Paying patients first."

I got the hell out of there and called the VA to complain. I'd have to be on death's door to go there again!
****MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 26, 2025
Remembering those who died in our behalf.

#1. The United States enjoys the rather dubious distinction of continuously waging war for over 200 years. Through the centuries young men, and some women, have lost their lives in service to their country. We've fought England, Mexico, Spain, Germany TWICE, Italy, Japan, Panama, Bosnia, Korea, Vietnam, George Bush's War on Terror, Iraq TWICE, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Gaza, and the list is certain to grow.

#2. I'm not here to tell you that we're wrong in maintaining a state of "everlasting war" as we toss our marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen into the grinder. I'm not here to stir the American conscience, so adept at waging war, that our single largest industry [after propaganda] is the Military~Industrial complex.

#3. No, I am here to ask you to pray for those who have been killed, maimed and crippled, and those whose lives have been forever upended by war ... to serve America.

#4. I salute them all, young and old alike, for their courage and selflessness. I applaud their wanting to serve their nation; right or wrong. While not blindly, they steadfastly pursued war for our nation's sake.

#5. I've lost 2 friends, fellow marines, in Vietnam and in Lebanon. I was out long before George Bush sent us into the Middle East so we could rotate our ammunition and our people. I am so glad that I missed war in "the sand box" simply because it turned out to be the most propagandized campaign since Vietnam; another war that we "lost'.

#6. One needn't agree with his country's government to support it. One needn't agree with America's invasion of any other land or defensive cooperation with other countries in order to fight for our country.

#7. On this solemn day when we honour our war dead, ask yourself, "Where would we be if we had had righteous and honest government?" And ask, "What would our world be like if all of those marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen who lost their lives had been allowed to die through natural causes?"

We'd be in a better world.