This is the reality to the "Pin a flag on the Collar" wearing politicians and most of the country. Ceremony is the approach but it doesn't resolve the reality. Veterans are placed in precarious situations because many are left behind and this is with both the politicians as well as the American people who take comfort in rhetoric and parades. Whereas politicians and civilians who ran out on the country when the call of duty came upon them, they ran and now they're running away from the ones who actually answered the call of duty on their return home.
Budgets cuts benefit the rich, well off and connected at the expense of veterans. A veteran who's homeless, suicidal, unemployed or in jail provides income to many segments of society. An individual veteran down on his luck is a conduit to to economic security to many as he remains economically unstable and treated as a kid. As a matter of fact, they're treated worst with restrictions that prevent grown men and women to grow beyond their situation and they're situations are many.
Earlier this year, the GOP had a chance to prove that it could fund veterans' health care as eagerly as it borrowed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long before the current VA crisis, an event described as
"a gift from God" by Dr. Ben Carson, Senate Republicans had a chance to vote on a landmark bill. Before the Senate vote, organizations devoted to the needs of veterans and their families offered widespread support to the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014.
On January 21, 2014 the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) wrote a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsing the legislation.
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