Veterans feel mistreated by the goverement be cause they were never helped for these sicknesses and symptoms they got.I dont think they have been discriminated socially becuse many people do respect them.These things arent metioned in the bill of rights but the goverment should do something about it.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Mistreating of the US Veterans...
Veterans aren't mostly mistreated.They are one of the people many people look up to! At the end of the Viet Nam war just as the Iraq war is becoming now it had become a very unpopular war. The media in its exceedingly sensational way portrayed viet nam vets as murderers , baby killers if you will. The public bought into the reports and veterans in general became second class citizens. Men who were emotionally and physically scarred for life from their time spent there had no safe haven from persecution and developed mental issues with depression and post traumatic stress. Getting and keeping jobs was difficult and the government had not yet recognized these mental issues as valid. Many veterans became homeless because of this and just fell between the cracks, no help from the VA and even less from society in general.
Thousands of us Gulf war veterans suffer from ailments unrecognized by the federal government so no steps are taken to care for them.The United States alone deployed 697,000 men and women to the Middle East during the First Gulf War. As many as one in 10 of these individuals had reported symptoms by the mid 1990s. Some of the symptoms have also expanded to the families of these soldiers, many of whom brought back mementos from Iraq which may have been contaminated, in addition to their soiled gear.
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