On this Veterans’ Day we honor our
vets who serve and have made the sacrifice
The long deployments, away from
family, often in harm’s way dodging wounds and loss of life
Years of physical disabilities for
years after from the wounds of war
Years of emotional scars, unseen on
the surface that attack a person’s mental and emotional core
Years of being ignored by a callous
VA
That despite of the platitudes,
appointments still facing delays
Dodging bullets, rpgs, IEDs and mortar
shells being at them lobbed
Yet when finally home alive and not
physically wounded often cannot find a job
“Thank you for your service” will
not put food on a vet’s table
“Thank you for your service” may not
help a vet now depressed or unstable
“Thank you for your service” garnished
with applause seems somewhat hollow
And yet these brave one percent continue
to into harm’s way follow
Only one percent of this nation don a uniform and volunteer
Can we do more than just flip the
burgers or steaks on the grill and grab another beer?
Or do we mutter such a shame and
become in the veterans’ plight become MIA
Close our eyes to the facts that 20
vets take their own life each and every day?
If the sons and daughters of the
Swamp or the top wealthy 1 percent were serving there would be Hell to pay!
Why in this land of medical and mental
treatment bounties with Medicare and Medicaid due we have the nightmare of a
single payer VA?
Why do we continue to accept by
inaction the callousness, fraud, and incompetence of the bureaucrats at the VA?
99 percent of us for our safety and
freedoms depend on just one percent
Yet we stand by and seem unwilling
to fix a care system that seems broken and bent
Why not create Vetcare to be modeled
after Medicare to allow a vet to any private hospital or doctor choose
Sell off the VA Hospitals to the
private sector where if as an administrator you do not perform your job you
lose
As opposed to the VA where it is
easier for a camel to go through the proverbial needle’s eye
Than for a VA bureaucrat no matter
how incompetent his or her job to deny
Thank them for their service, hire
them as priority job one
Support Wounded Warriors or Soldier Strong, until
Vetcare arrives outrage at the VA to get the war against vet neglect won
©November 10, 2017,
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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