Comments on: Before You Go

By: thommacintyre

thommacintyre — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:29:36 +0000

Hi!
As a memeber of the 101st in the 1980s I had the chance to meet some of my counterparts form WW II at a 40th anniversary D-Day dinner where we, the current troops, were the honor guard. What a GREAT bunch! Well, years later I had a miracle happen revolving around a Rosary. I wrote it up and here is the link:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2411430/a_true_according_to_hoyle_recovery.html?cat=37

Thank you, each and every veteran ESPECIALLY the ones from WW II still around…

By: American Knight

American Knight — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:54:33 +0000

We have to be careful what we expect. There are voluntary vets and then there are conscripts. As a nation we have a duty to take care of all of them, but we are fools to expect our current government to do so.

In regards to voluntary vets they should be protected by contract law and if the contract isn’t attractive then don’t sign it.

In regards to conscripts, why should we expect an entity that presses men into forced service to provide for their care after their term of what is essentially slavery is up?

I think we need to take stock of how our government wastes money, which is why we have so little to spend on our military personnel, which, in my opinion is the most legitimate and primary role of the federal government.

This, like most other things in our modern culture, is upside down and inside out. I think you’d be hard pressed to find an American (extreme libertarians and leftists excluded) who would not gladly fork over tax money to take care of the fine men and women who provide for our defense. But it seems providing free health care to illegal aliens and better accomondations for arrested (word removed so as not to disparage extreme practioners of a false religion) terrorists is more of a priority.

By: Rick Lugari

Rick Lugari — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:04:48 +0000

Funny thing about the afforable housing advocacy cited in the story. The VA has long had a program to make housing available and affordable to vets.

By: Donald R. McClarey

Donald R. McClarey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:42:04 +0000

The study cited e was politicized junk by an advocacy group. Here is Michael Fumento’s debunking of the study.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_homeless_vets_who_aren_CPWQpwN6eVpiPvgbK5b1dO

By: e.

e. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:34:04 +0000

Donald,

The following was just obtained, which would seem to corroborate what the spokesperson at last night’s shindig said:

1 in 4 U.S. Homeless Are Veterans, Private Study Finds

WASHINGTON — Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.

And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.

The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. 2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans…

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,309416,00.html?sPage=fnc/politics/pentagon

By: e.

e. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:32:59 +0000

Donald:

As you already know, I have both great admiration as well as deep respect for the wealth of historical knowledge you yourself possess, as evidenced by the numerous entries concerning historical matters you’ve personally authored on this blog.

This is perhaps why I took what the man said (though he reiterated the same statistics at that evening’s news interview) with a grain of salt.