It’s been awhile.
4/7/2011
It’s been awhile since my last blog with lot’s of things going on in my life and with my loved one, Joan and our lovely Michelle. Fortunately we are all feeling better now and Joan and I are doing pretty well considering how long we’ve been around. Whatever is going on with us is sure as hell eclipsed by the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, with thousands of people dead and thousands more living without permanent shelter, with contaminated food and in deep grief for their losses.
I can’t believe we are now involved in three wars now. Besides the useless toll on the people who are in war’s path, our brave soldiers will be coming home having been immersed in the death and destruction of war for more tours than they bargained for. Things have improved in the care of our Veterans, since I last worked in a VA hospital, but I still hear and feel the undercurrent of Veterans needing to prove they are disabled – especially those with PTSD and traumatic brain injury. There are people who are always suspicious and wanting to be sure no one gets something for nothing. Just being in a war zone is traumatic. Our Veterans deserve as good care as we can give them without having to jump through hoops to get it. It’s true that “It’s Never Over When It’s Over” and denying or putting up obstacles for care is not only unfair and an indecent way to treat our young men and women of the military, it ain’t going to make a dent in relieving our national debt . Stopping wars, closing corporate tax loop holes, and having the one percent of the super rich pay their full share of taxes will.
I’m tempted to go on about educating our kids and health care but it’s enough for this go around. All of you take good care of yourselves.
