This story in today's Washington Post:
" ... a vast outpouring of accounts filled with emotion and anger about the mistreatment of wounded outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Stories of neglect and substandard care have flooded in from soldiers, their family members, veterans, doctors and nurses working inside the system. They describe depressing living conditions for outpatients at other military bases around the country, from Fort Lewis in Washington state to Fort Dix in New Jersey. They tell stories -- their own versions, not verified -- of callous responses to combat stress and a system ill equipped to handle another generation of psychologically scarred vets."
It's not just Walter Reed
Where are the words to describe the feelings that have overtaken me? Rage, heartache, fury, disgust? I can't find enough powerful words to express it.
Our young people have fought and given their lives and body parts for an illegal war to bring profit to those who inflict it. "Sacrifice" is the word they use, but you know they aren't sacrificing their sons and daughters, their arms and legs and comfy living conditions and their quality medical care for this effort. They are leading our young people to sacrifice for them, and those sacrifices are far more than these young people signed up for.
To care for our sick and wounded is one measure of a nation and our nation has failed miserably. We have lost our place in the world as a nation that cares for the least and the greatest (our veterans) of its citizens. From Katrina to our eldery to our soldiers, we have utterly failed.
I weep for our soldiers... what our nation has become. I'm shaking with rage. I can't even think right to write a brilliant and wonderful first diary.
There just aren't the words...
Crossposted at Soapbox4Truth.org and JohnConyers.com
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