Thanks on Thanksgiving

Message of 'teabaggers' {some being veterans} is heard, those meager taxes you don't want to pay, nor want your corporate sponsors to fork over, hit the issues like Veterans Care in shortfalls of treasuries! How are those magnetic ribbons, faded can't read now, gone never replaced, and them purple heart bandages?

Support?, in words and cheap symbols only!!



Governor Vetoes Soldiers' Home Funding

For the past few weeks veterans and health care workers at the Soldiers' Home have rallied in Western Mass. and Boston, fighting for Gov. Deval Patrick to restore funding. All were disappointed to learn the governor would not be sending funds their way.

"Closing this place would just be a sin on someone's soul," veteran Paul Camrye said...>>>>>

A chest full of medals and a head full of nightmares

Dr. Kernan Manion, a psychiatrist who was fired after he complained about conditions for his PTSD patients at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

Veterans with PTSD have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The Veterans Administration has made remarkable progress in identifying and treating veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the Department of Defense is finally doing something to find out how and why active duty servicemen and women get PTSD....>>>>>

Be better if we would not send our soldiers into Wars and Occupations of Choice, but after four plus decades and two more occupations the country has a growing understanding of the results, till the masses push those realities out once again!