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This is de only part of yuh whole arguement dat ah cyah agree with yuh. I believe I deserve more that another. I served, did my job to the best of my ability, Placed my life on the line. Got retired medically due to circumstances beyond my control while trying to defend all that so many folks take for granted. I have a family and they don't have the full benefits of a father/husband because there are many things I cannot do due to my service time. I walk with a cane, cant stand or run cant lift my baby or girls if they hurt, cant breathe properly and take numerous mforms of medications and use different apparatuses every day to try and have some form of a normal life. I try to live as a model citizen and fight daily for the right of other Vets and Soldiers. Because we do deserve more than what we do get.
See this is the part I always disagree with. What were you defending? A political ideal? I mean come on man, again... I not trying to minimize what members of the armed forces go thru, but you were fighting because you were told to fight. You might have even agreed to fight, but is not like you were fighting here on home soil against an invading army. And I not saying you have to wait to be invaded to earn the right to "defend", but a lot of the battles that many after WWII serve in were ideological wars. US Government took issue with some political position of another government, both government tried to exert their ideological influence in some far off land and sent people children to fight over these ideological differences. They cloak all that b.s. under the mantle of "defending liberty".
I mean, Al Qaeda I understand... the military response was justified against attacks which first began abroad but which eventually found their way here in the US. We responded (insufficiently) by sending troops to Afghanistan to root them out.
What were the Iraqi vets defending? Iraqis never asked for Democracy.
And again... pay particular attention to what I actually stated "what is SO specia about vets". I never said that vets aren't special... but what is so special that they deserve to be treated differently under the law. THIS is my position, don't confuse it to think that I don't think vets deserve some degree of special treatment.
You did not read all of my words. I said I volunteered. I was in Germany when the planes crashed. Before the second hit I was already on the phone with my commander.
We are saying the same but disagreeing on a few points. Perhaps it would serve you to read back into my posts. No where did I say I was in Iraq but you assumed this. What I did in the military I am proud of and never try to boast. My kids know very little but that their dad wore a uniform at a point in their early lives. My wife did not know the true extent of my retirement untill years after. So I will not try to defend it with you.
I never said a pass but understanding.
Please go back and read my posts.