[Marxism] Fw: counter-recruitment

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We have prepared this leaflet for counter-recruitment activities.  Feel
free to copy/download it for use as a leaflet or as a poster.

Stephen J Spiro

THEY WILL BURY YOU IF THEY GET YOU KILLED,

BUT WILL THEY TAKE CARE OF YOU IF YOU GET SICK?

Another Veterans Day

http://207.44.245.159/article7277.htm

By: Jack Dalton

11/12/04 "ICH" -- Here we are again, another Veterans Day. There will be
many parades and many speeches about the sacrifices of veterans and how
the nation must honor veterans; Special days so people can feel good,
and for the veteran, the day after the parades and speeches, nothing
changes.

Year by year more veterans seek help for mind and body at Veterans
Administration Health Care facilities only to be turned away in
increasing numbers-V.A. has no money, no room at the Inn.

But, once every year on "Veterans Day" there are parades and speeches
extolling the sacrifices of those that went to war-and the day after the
speeches, for the veteran, nothing changes. Bodies are still broken;
minds are still tormented and haunted by nameless faces in the night.

A young man returns form Iraq missing both legs. After discharge from
the Army he ends up having to live in his car-where is the "honor our
veterans" for this young man?

Stu, 25 year old Marine is in an auto accident within 24 hours of his
discharge but has to go to a civilian hospital for treatment and
surgery. Why? The V.A. told his family he did not qualify for V.A. care.

Josh, another 25 year old Marine goes nuts while still in Iraq; Instead
of the Marine Corps trying to treat his multi-symptomatic PTSD they put
him in jail for 5 years.

How does any of this show honor to those that have given their all? It
would be easy to dismiss these three as imaginary people, but they are
real and their stories are real. The worst of it is the simple fact
these three are not atypical.

One generation of veterans after another have been asking this nation to
live up to the agreement, the promise, it made to veterans; simply to
provide the mental and physical healthcare in an timely manner by
qualified medical personnel. To provide disability compensation for
those that are unable to work due to their disability; And to stop
pitting one group of veterans against another in a fight for decreasing
funds in the V.A.

If this nation really cared about "honoring" those that have borne the
cost of battle it would make the V.A. budget a mandatory budget line
item instead of what we have today. Today not only is the amount of
money for the V.A. up for grabs from year to year and voted on, but if
there will even be a budget for the V.A.

Where is the "honor for those that given their all?" Keep the parades;
keep all the fine speeches. If this nation was really serious about
honoring this nations veterans it would provide decent, qualified and
timely healthcare for veterans and no veteran would ever be told there
is no room at the Inn or that did "do not qualify."

In short, properly fund the V.A. and that would be a first step at
living up to the promises made to those, by this country, that would
experience the inhumanity and brutality that is war.

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Jack Dalton is a disabled Vietnam veteran that lives in Portland,
Oregon.

He is an independent writer whose articles have appeared in many, many
web publications as well as spurring articles in the Village Voice, the
Oregonian and N.Y. Times as well as broadcast media. He is very active
in military and veterans issues and may be contacted thru the Project
for an Old American Century,
http://oldamericancentury.org/index.htm where he is a columnist.

His direct email address is jack_dalton@xxxxxxxx

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NJ 08840

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