Soldier, Sailors, Airmen and Marines have long been forgotten by most.
Unless you have specifically been impacted by the loss of someone or
the multination of their body and mind you most likely only think of us
on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. There is an organization in place
within the United States that is supposed to take care of us and that
organization is the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Like most under the care of the VA I have experienced horrific and
abysmal care. There are times that I would rather revive care under
a state program like MOHealth. While the welfare system in America
has its drawbacks with the quality of care provided it is sadly superior
to the VA. If you believe that is untrue look at how the dead are cared
for by the different organizations. Within the state health run system,
the dead are processed and either given to a mortuary for preparation
or sent to cremation after a certain amount of time. With in the VA
bodies of deceits warriors are often forgotten about left to rot, the
VA hospital in Illinois that left veterans’ bodies “to decompose in the
morgue for months on end,” as Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) told Fox News.
This is just one of the many different circumstances of the deplorable
treatment of veterans.
Think as if this was your mother or father yet think as if this was yourself.
Someone who had sacrificed his/her time, body, mind and soul. Could
you stand to be treated as throw away trash. Left to rot in a moorage?
As a community how can we make sure that this stop’s happening?
Should we proposition the lawmakers to make veteran hospitals privatized?
Should we ask that vets be treated under the same medical system that
active duty service member are under (TRICARE)? I believe that the answer
is a little bit of both.
While in the Navy I never once went to a medical treatment facility and was
cast away. I never once did not receive the care that was needed. Now that
I am out of the service and a disabled veteran I must work very hard to get
the medication and attention that is needed. I often find that it is better to
use my work insurance and pay the outrageous copay's so that I may see a
doctor in a timely matter.
As Proof here I am reenlisting for the on board the USS PELELIU (LHA5).
