Combat Veterans May Have the Antidote to What Ails Us

[democrank]

1. Thank you for posting this.

Based on life with a terminally ill Vietnam Veteran and our zillion trips to the VA, I can tell you first hand that most veterans I`ve spoken with have little interest in frivolity and shallow priorities. "Life-altering" experiences are just that....life altering. Those experiences seem to automatically cast off meaningless crap and turn full attention to life and death issues.

Many veterans feel alienated because more attention is paid to the newest gadget craze than the sickening number of daily veteran suicides. Many in the mainstream media don`t even question chopping food stamp allotments to veterans and their families or question the outrageous number of veterans who have lost their homes through foreclosure. It`s just a giant collective yawn followed by fever-pitch excitement over box stores deciding to open on Thanksgiving Day.

Trauma is a bitch, especially if you`re going through it in the middle of a crowd that can`t be bothered.

We have a lot to learn from our veterans and we should be listening.