Pentagon bean-counters who can easily swallow a new no-bid contract for a contractor already caught stealing millions or billions year after year come up with plans to raise the fees and co-pays for veterans’ health care insurance.
They also pressure military doctors to search for some pre-existing mental health issue so that they can deny a PTSD claim and throw a soldier out the door with no health benefits.
Shame on them for doing that. Shame on us for letting them get away with it.
Veterans Day is here. Think about what that means besides bargain day at the mall. Think about who we really owe bigtime.
Write or call your Congress critter and offer him early retirement if he or she isn’t voting right on these issues.
If you hear a band playing or read about a small ceremony honoring veterans, go there and say thank you to the men and women who have given so much for your rights and freedoms. It will bring a tear to their eyes.
Joseph L. Galloway, a military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers and a former senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers, is co-author of the national best-seller “We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young.” Readers may write to him at: P.O. Box 399, Bayside, Texas 78340.
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