Posted on 11/22/2017 8:59:27 AM PST by blam
Actually, that's where we all got our prostate cancer: every single guy from my infantry company who survived the war got very aggressive prostate cancer from Agent Orange.
This and many other things convinced us that what happened to us really didn't matter to our leaders. We were as expendable as Kleenex to them.
Pretty obvious that you've never been anywhere near the wrong side of a rifle. I don't doubt that there is abuse of the system but PTSD, as they are calling it now, exists in some form in all combat veterans. It's the normal human reaction to 24/7 fear, seeing others around you killed and maimed and having to try to kill other people - while trying your damndest not to kill innocent bystanders or your fellow soldiers/Marines. It's going sleepless for long periods of time, carrying more weight than a pack mule in stunning heat, while nor knowing if the next step you take will be your last.
People like you are only too willing to let the rest of us take the burdens and the many residuals afterward, while you get to carp from the sidelines.
Well, bravo. I hope you don't mind that I will continue to respect and admire my generation's and our current times' veterans far more than the service-avoiders and sideline gripers, as you seem to be.
I call bullspit on that statement. If true I wouldn't have had to fight the VA tooth and nail for years and still today for upgrades to shell fragment wounds from rockets, shredded muscle from explosives and you decry the unworthiness of unseen but still real damage by Agent Orange or PTSD and think the VA tries to get all the vets unearned benefits. The VA hands nothing out easy as you state. Sure there's fake mental con artist vets, those need to be punished and followup evaluations done.
Thank you both for your reasoned response. I am glad I read yours before I responded myself. Saved me getting banned for calling him a ignorant, lowlife, non-serving, worthless, pile of crap.
Pretty clearly not a combat veteran but a veteran of sorts with little or no understanding of what real combat can do to people.
It will be interesting if he has the nerve to respond to us.
Which is a shame, since in your many earlier posts on FreeRepublic indicate that you are at least a retired Staff Non-Commissioned Officer.
Recommend that in the future you refrain from commenting on combat-related topics and if you feel the urge to do so, that you disconnect your keyboard that day and just go fishing.
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