[cherry]

if he's so smart with his three "graduate" degrees...probably comunications, sociology and poetry or similar....and all his smarts from being a big shot colonel, he must be a really strange person not to be well prepared...

we paid for two kids in college...we paid for two weddings...we didn't get guarenteed pensions and medical care and housing allowances and signing bonuses....what did this guy do with his 30 years of a solid paycheck?....fancy cars?...vacations?...girlfriends....

not buying the pity party...

we're not talking some mentally challenged alcoholic with 2 yrs of service...we're talking a long time officer.....

[Carriage Hill]

I don’t know what other problems he’s got; the article left out a LOT of needed information - medical, financial, legal etc - for readers to figure out why the Col’s in the predicament he’s in. He sure doesn’t need any pity party; my suspicion is that he needs some psychiatric help and financial counseling, at this point. The VA should be providing that for him and his family.