In the name of real patriotism the VA must be funded

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Sunday November 14, 2010 · 8:08 AM PST

2010/11/14 · 08:08

If you were wounded in Vietnam you had a 70% chance of surviving. Due to advances and improvements in battlefield medicine, if you are wounded in OIF/OEF you have a +90% chance of surviving. When you come back and you complete your service and you separate from the military you may have wounds, physical or mental, that still need treatment or care. Some may even get a 100% disability rating for wounds they received in combat that were never physical at all. That’s the problem with war it’s messy. The war for the warrior doesn’t end on a date set by politicians and world leaders. The war will always be with them and me. It will be with us until the day we die. You called us to duty and we answered. Some of us answered the call multiple times and are suffering compounding injuries.

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Friday November 21, 2008 · 3:39 AM PST

2008/11/21 · 03:39

If you think the maniacal military supplemental budgets will end the day the retrograde order is given you are sorely mistaken. The money we’ve spent and the beginning of the end will get much more expensive.

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Tuesday November 11, 2008 · 12:37 AM PST

2008/11/11 · 00:37

This is a diary from the combat zone the night after the election as we wathced President-Elect Obama give his victory speech.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 10:31 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 22:31

The proffession of arms is a rough and tumble adventure for the Soldier and those that love and support them. The last 7 years have been especially trying, and as a dual-military couple it only gets worse.

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 5:21 AM PDT

2008/10/11 · 05:21

I've been to combat and I've seen the eyes of men that have lost "it." Ladies and gentlemen I'm afraid that John McCain has that same look.

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 11:57 PM PDT

2008/09/18 · 23:57

Some call it PTSD I call it the kill switch and once it is engaged it's hard to flip off.
It's becoming more apparent as we've had two cases of "fragging" in recent months in Iraq. One such case just took the lives of two NCOs in Iraq a few days ago.
VETVOICE Has the Story and comments.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 10:49 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 22:49

After the last 8 years it still seems, surprisingly, that the military vote is swinging Republican. You would think after Iraq, Afghanistan, Walter Reed, and the healthcare scandals the military would be looking for a change in leadership.The main argument seems to be that, "Bill Clinton cut the military in the '90s which is why we are short people today." But when I try to tell them the guy with the brilliant idea of drawing down the military was a SECDEF named Rumsfeld under his 1st tenure in the 80's I get nowhere.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 6:40 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 06:40

Because they so wholeheartedly put it on the table. And then brag about it.

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Saturday July 19, 2008 · 3:20 AM PDT

2008/07/19 · 03:20

The almost successful attack and Afghanistan gleans more the military observer.

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 3:20 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 03:20

The surge or escalation of forces, unfortunately and fortunately, is only a bandaid on the damn.

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Sunday February 03, 2008 · 8:40 AM PST

2008/02/03 · 08:40

The argument whether or not the surge is working or has worked is still raging. According to GEN Petraeus we need another Friedman Unit (FU) to determine wheter or not it has been a viable success tactically in Iraq. Well, I'll tell you where it hasn't been a success...it hasn't been a success for the soldier's and units that were there to fight it and the soldiers and units that are going to cover down on those units now leaving.

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 4:58 AM PST

2008/01/30 · 04:58

While many have served, many are confused by the military's vague language of phonetically spoken letters and numbers with -er at the end, there is something that is as old as the streets that the military has picked up on and is good at....hustling.

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