By Ken Harbaugh
It is sad that one week after Memorial Day, The New York Times saw fit to run an essay lamenting the cost of compensating veterans for their disabilities. As Jon Stewart has said, if the government cannot fairly care for and compensate our disabled veterans, maybe it should stop creating so many of them.
Indeed, the cost of providing benefits that these heroic men and women have earned pales in comparison with the overall cost of fighting a war.
Veterans cannot afford expensive lobbyists, but I am proud that my organization, the American Legion, has thousands of trained service officers assisting veterans nationwide in obtaining the small compensation that is owed to them for injuries, illnesses and wounds inflicted on military members as they served America.
Itās more than a coincidence that proposals to curtail veterans benefits seem to pick up steam as shooting wars slow down. Must it take another intense war for certain Americans to regain their appreciation for veterans?
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