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Vets get shafted in every way - from medical issues to housing issues to job training issues.
As a nation, we love to stick giant yellow magnets on our cars that read "I support our troops" and our government loves to masturbate to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." and brag about how they care about the military, but how we treat our veterans is the best indicator of how we as a nation truly feel about those in the military.
You want to honor and support the troops? Do it after the battle is over, when they most need it. Parades and cliche-ridden country songs don't pay the bills. I don't give a shit if they volunteered or not, if they were asked to put their lives in danger "for our country", then our country (read: government) should do everything it possibly can to ensure that they never have to want for anything.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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