By Ashley Burke
If there’s one thing Alannah Gilmore, a retired sergeant, can’t forget â it’s that anything could happen at any moment.
As a former combat medic for the Canadian Forces, she cared for those wounded after suicide explosions in Afghanistan. Her husband lost both of his legs to a land mine during the same tour of duty. Gilmore had always hoped that if she ever needed long-term care, it would be at a facility dedicated to vets. But like roughly 600,000 veterans, she doesn’t have that option.
“I’m highly disappointed,” Gilmore said. “These hospitals exist. The programs do exist. Why are we taking away this as an option for families?”
As it stands now, only those who fought in the Second World War and the Korean War are eligible for long-term care homes dedicated to veterans, while anyone who served after the 1953 ceasefire in Korea is not.
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