A distant friend and former co-worker who knows I’m in Veterans for Peace sent this and asked me if I could explain it to her. I sure can’t, but it doesn’t surprise me a bit.

Okay. So there’s this big article in the paper and I get a notice from the school . . . The father of one of Carlos’ classmates was in the army for some time, got out, moved here, joined the guard, went to Iraq, got out of the guard, re-upped, got sent back, was seven days from finishing his tour and got hit by an IED. Not a good scene. Now he’s in a spinal cord facility in Chicago due to return home in a few months. Paraplegic. Saturday the guard post is sponsoring a fund raiser (food, silent auction, whatever) to try to raise $30K to cover the cost of converting his house to handicap accessible.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Not only do they send a pretty old guy to Iraq TWICE, but they don’t spend enough coin to cover decent body and vehicle armor, now the guy’s a CRIPPLE and he’s gotta have a BAKE SALE so he can move back home??? The VA won’t COVER this???

This is just a great country . . .

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