Shortest blog post I could possibly offer: isn't that concept fundamentally what we are looking for? With all the (thankfully increasing) coverage in the national media about failures in the system, isn't that really what the goal is? That no vet is left behind -- not in terms of aftercare for bodily or psychological injury from wartime. That no one falls through the cracks, that the system works efficiently and effectively, and that no veteran or veteran's family is unduly put through more financial or emotional chaos because of the system not working. "No vet left behind" -- let's seriously make it our goal.
In the Vietnam war, a rallying cry for those concerned with military who prisoners of war ("POW") or missing in action ("MIA") was, "you are not forgotten." (See flag, above.) A rallying cry for us today should be, similiarly, "no vet left behind." I guess we need our own flag, yet to be designed.
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In the tacky and tasteless "humor" department -- pretty unfunny, if you ask me -- there's a T-shirt being sold on the Web that calls itself the "tasteless veteran's T-shirt," at ThreadPit.com. For $14.95, plus shipping and handling, you can wear a shirt that says, "Get Ready, America! It's time for a whole new generation of emotionally disturbed veterans." I so love people making insensitive fun of things they couldn't possibly understand -- because if they did, they would no longer find them funny. Yikes. Maybe they wouldn't mind donating the proceeds from the sale of that T-shirt to say, buying Thanksgiving meals for some of the many homeless veterans in our nation.
