By Dustin DeMoss
It’s kudos to the sacrifices many veterans have made. They put country before their family and friends. Their social life consisted of a tent in the middle of nowhere, Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) propped against a rock, and an M16 handy.
The comfort away from home was guns, religion, and their brothers and sisters-in-arms. Fidelity and unity in the cause of protecting one another was in the colloquialisms of their youth. Those who signed the bottom line effectively gave their lives to Uncle Sam and entrusted that he’d take care of them. Uncle Sam hasn’t always been the best uncle though; he’s more like the drunken uncle that slaps everyone around and gets wasted on cheap Bourbon whisky.
Veterans Day is more about corporatism than actually giving kudos these days. But frankly, veterans don’t want kudos. They want a VA system that impacts their quality of living. Ole Uncle Sam can slap veterans around all he wants but no matter what veterans still stand tall.
The VA system has been failing for decades. Veterans and veteran organizations sound like a broken record and the politicians, the bureaucratically inept, and everyone from here to Timbuktu ignore the problem.
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