Reply #7: Sad, isn't it? [View All]

My father endured 3 tours of Vietnam, recieved 2 bronze stars and 3 purple hearts. He was an officer by the time he retired from the Army and when he passed, TAPS was playing on a boom box behind the nearest tree.

Was I angry? Yes, but I don't know if my anger was more due to the fact that when he was dying of a rare form of lung cancer, my mother had to fight to get the military insurance to cover the costs.

Meanwhile, the nearest VFW in my town just shut down. No money.

Each passing day, I am convinced that the current administration isn't Republican. Republicans, for all their faults, don't admire treating our soldiers and our Vets like this. bush&Co is ruled by greed. No ethics, no political philosophy. Just money and power. I don't know what's worse...the fact that they have hijacked the RNC, or the fact that the RNC let them.