GryGoast
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Outrage
By Master GryGoast
"Walter Reed medical chief relieved of command. General's dismissal follows reports on poor treatment of wounded soldiers"
I can no longer set idly by, as the ghosts of my past haunt my dreams, demanding of me the answer to one simple question. Why? Why do you do nothing? Why do you say nothing? Why do you allow this atrocity of neglect go un-prosecuted, yet AGAIN. I served in the Vet Nam conflict, as most of you likely know. I stood, dumb-founded, on the tarmac of Travis air base, returning home after three and one half years of bloody brutal combat, expecting to be welcomed home, honored for my service. After all, I was my father’s son. Only to have a VFW Post Commander spit in my face and call me a “baby burner”. My generation was swept under the carpet, left out of sight and out of mind, to suffer PTSD, untreated, Agent Orange was just an ungrateful complaint designed to milk the public dole, Rejected by family, shunned by friends. I sware, before god and this form, I will not stand idly by, with a slack jawed grin on my face and drool, while this evil abomination is allowed to be perpetrated again.
I can not express to you all … the deep and profound sorrow, the anger, and the shame I experience at the realization that this ungrateful nation has chosen to do this evil deed again, to “dispose of those that have so loved you, they have offered up not just there lives to your discretion, there arm, there legs, there sight. Never again to experience the simple joys in life that you and I all take for granted… to walk thru a field of wild flowers with one we love, sharing the sent of the new spring blossoms, heavy on the air, intoxicating like a sweet liquor. To play catch with a son, now orphaned, or to here the innocent wonder in a daughter’s voice, declaring… “Yes father, I love him with all my heart”.
I declare to you here and now, I will no longer restrain my disgust, my sense of betrayal, my anger, to have discovered that the very men and woman charged with the care and healing of these noble men and woman, our best, our brightest, our bravest, could be allowed to suffer further in filth and squalor. Yes. The great and noble institution of the Walter Reed Army Hospital, arguably the finest medical facility in the world, could treat our fallen mates as chattel, Abandoned to heal as they might, with no regard for the privilege there sacrifice in our stead represents.
If you tire of my endless lament in the interest of all those who have answered the call of there better angels to your benefit… then I suggests you hold on to your sesame seed buns pilgrims, because I’ve only just gotten started, and I will make my start with just one simple question…
“As you contemplate the mangled bodies of out fallen countrymen… ask yourself, what should the reward for such sacrifice be?”
Shirley… not neglect, indifference or callous disregard? Again!
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