April 11, 2005

• There is something seriously wrong with this country, read this story, then continue on.

  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=650484

  For starters, our country asks so much of our brave men and woman in
  uniform, yet we don’t take care of them. Routinely, and for years I
  might add, our country has not given our soldiers their just due.
  Vietnam vets were not taken care of when they got home. The same is
  shaping up for our Iraq soldiers. Now, here is a man, a hero, who was
  wounded in the war. Wants to go back, but they won’t let him, because
  he is gay. In fact, he might be jailed because he is gay. This is a
  disgusting outrage. It flat out makes me ashamed to be an American when
  I read things like this. In a war we shouldn’t be in (thats a whole
  different story) with a desperate need for troops, we discriminate and
  take away the freedoms of our own, when those same very people are out
  there fighting for the freedoms of another country. How can we even
  justify this? First of all, gays should have the same rights. Secondly,
  veterans should be well taken care of and should not have to worry
  about their health or getting benefits, as is a common problem of those
  injured in wars.  They should not have to come home and wonder if their
  country, the very country they are fighting for, is going to take care
  of them. I have a friend who is in the Air Force now and he used to be
  in the Marines. I know he would never see this, but I hope he knows
  that there are people back home that are thinking of him and all the
  other people that defend our country. I hope he understands how proud
  his friends are of him and how every time I read anything about the
  military or the war, I think of him. And I just hope that Mr. Stout
  can join him again.

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