Memorial Day 2011

This post isn't about the dead veterans. This is about some of the ones who survived with major injuries.

Numbers?

Miscommunication hinders vets' care, study finds
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

Updated 03/24/2011 12:17:34 AM

Eligible veterans are not easily identified because the Pentagon and VA have no specific classification for "severely wounded, ill or injured" servicemembers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study says...

Everyone claims to “Support Our Troops.” But as Andrew J. Bacevich explains, telling the military it can do whatever it wants works for everyone—except for the soldiers themselves

American Soldiers Are WAKING UP!! SUPPORT OF TAKING AMERICA BACK!!! (StopTheRobbery2) (not new, but I like it)


California home to more wounded and killed veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan wars than any other state
By Thomas Himes, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/29/2011 07:07:24 PM PDT

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 3:00 pm | Updated: 4:51 pm, Wed Aug 25, 2010.
Because of good weather and a high cost of living, San Diego has a lot of homeless people. There are 8,500 homeless people in the county and 35 percent of them (3,000) are veterans. The relatively high proportion of veterans among San Diego's homeless is probably due to our proximity to military bases.
Nationwide, 20-25 percent of the homeless are veterans.

Homeless veterans on rise in San Diego
BY JEANETTE STEELE, UNION-TRIBUNE
SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2011 AT 3 P.M.

(Note the most popular comments on the above local fishwrap article. Welcome to San Diego, home of some of the most asinine "compassionate conservative" dickheads on the planet. Probably because there are a shitload of defense contractors here.)

These are the dead from these latest of our wars. The lucky ones. The war is over for them.

6,013
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 4,442
Operation Enduring Freedom: 1,571
(Updated May 29, 2011)

Heroic Sacrifices for Foolish Causes: Memorial Days Past and Present
by Doug Bandow, May 31, 2008

The government borrows their money from a group of private banksters called the Federal Reserve. I certainly don't agree with everything the author of this book wrote, and I'm no rocket scientist but I managed to glean this from the book:
C) War makes these greedy assholes richer. Edwin Starr - War Live (2001)