What if the government never reopens?

[AverageOldGuy]

7. We are renewing our passports

Lost our passports in 2005 in Hurricane Katrina.

Have an appointment next week to turn over our passport applications to USPS who checks out the application, collects the fee, then sends to State Dept. Daughter did this couple of years ago, took 4 weeks to get her new passport.

We are in our 80's, wife is insulin-dependent diabetic, must use a walker and then can only move around short distances.

We have checked and because of my grandparents, we can become basically permanent alien residents of Switzerland and we can afford it -- teaching pension, military pension, two social security. Not sure about medical care. Great Britain is also a possibility.

We grieve for our adult children in their late 50's and our two teen-age grandsons.

I served 28 years in the Army including in the bush in Vietnam for this shit???