Draft Dodging Felon Takes Vet Benefits
It’s bad enough that a draft dodger is once again President of the United States but he now wants to break the contract signed with all veterans. When I signed up in 1966, I didn’t quite understand what I was getting into, what 17 year old really knows what he or she is doing. But, in my little lizard brain, I understood that if I were to be injured or wounded in a war, the US Government would take care of me.
Like most Vietnam vets, I shrugged off the impact of a war on a 19 year old’s mind. I felt I was “lucky” to come home with my life and all my limbs intact. I got a job, went to college, graduated Summa Cum Laude and went to work. PTSD was the farthest thing from my mind.
The mind is a funny critter, it can be sneaky and duplicitous against it’s own human. One day, 10 years after getting back, I found myself staring at the end of a pistol barrel, trying to summon the courage to pull the trigger. It was my friend Dave who came to my house and took away the gun. After a court ordered stint in a psychiatric ward and therapy, I finally made the connection between my mind, my experiences and my nightmares.
Now, the aforementioned draft dodging felon wants to terminate my veteran’s benefits. The same benefits that, during the Covid-19 pandemic, came to my rescue a second time when the stress of the unknown caused me to once again, contemplate suicide. Just in case you’re not too worried because, like the convicted felon, you think vets are “suckers and losers,” let me remind you that trump’s South African buddy, Ego Muskrat and Muskrat’s buddy, Vivek Ramaswampy, want to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid along with VA benefits.
Veterans’ benefits are contractual obligations with vets. The US can not unilaterally terminate the obligation any more than it can terminate an American’s US citizenship.
Always remember, to trump, the US Treasury is HIS money and it’s his singular goal to amass, control and retain it to stoke his ego.
