Reply #6: GI Bill. When the World War II vets came home there were programs [View All]

in place to help them find and pay for housing, jobs, and education. I believe that they still called what we name post traumatic stress syndrome "shell schocked," but there wasn't as much condemnation of it after WWII as there was afater WWI.

Where is the accompanying infrastructure for those vets who came home from Vietnam? Whatever they got, they put together for themselves. Where is the accompanying infrastructure for vets who came home from the First Gulf War? Many of them died from mysterious diseases which the DOD still calls coincidence. And I don't believe there is any program in effect for those vets yet.

And the infrastructure for those vets returning (again and again) from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, even those with horrible physical injuries from those tours of duty? Oh, that's right. Their problems are not war related. They are from underlying personality disorders that war simply highlighted.

The infrastructues in place for our military and returning vets is a lot like the infrastructure that in place for our roads and bridges in this country. You know, the infrastructure that brought us the Minneapolis I35 Bridge colapse.