I had my annual physical today, and the male assistant, a former Army medic, told me about the problems veterans are having getting enough money to go to college, despite the GI Bill that gave so many WWII veterans an education and, essentailly, created today's middle class.
"There isn't enough money," he told me; and he was always caught between the VA and the college, each blaming the other for the short fall or for paperwork left undone.
It's nice that people want to support the troops, he said with growing anger as he read my EKG. But by putting those ribbons on their cars, you know those magnet ribbons, all they are doing is giving money to people in Korea (China, I imagine). Sending their money to Korea. (Now, of course, i'm tempted to go up on bumper and pull off the metal magnet ribbon and find out where it was made.)
They should be offering rides to vets who can't make it to their doctor's appointments.
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