Throughout the country, the bells are ringing: for Marines from Camp Pendleton, Calif., helicopter pilots from Ft. Rucker Alabama, the 101 Airborne from Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Our National Guard are needed at home. Our forces are stretched thin and keep the bells ringing.
But where the deputies and senators and congress-women Democrats and Republicans in the White House and government representatives were when Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Veterans Administration (VA) medicalCenters were there, their bodies to rot in vermin rat holes where severely wounded American veterans are accommodated? A general, said the veterinarians left food in their rooms, which attract small critters. Excuse me, but is blown away like a man without legs, or half of his mind, is to dispose of its garbage? The only reason a few heads are rolling now, because two Pulitzer Prize-worthy "Washington Post" reporter blew the cover "a grateful nation," dirty littleSecret.
He has been my experience that if the American people the truth be told, rise up and be heard. The administration is a befuddled Congress for billions to put more men and women into a nightmare of civil war between the barbarians to fight its causes, to understand not most Americans, or a rat in the ass. And yet, when it comes to caring for these brave children, inside and out severely wounded, maimed and disfigured for the rest of their lives: Show Me TheMoney!
ABC journalist Bob Woodruff suffered a miraculous recovery from his brain injuries in Iraq. Not describe the miraculous. He said that he was the absolute best treatment for each want from the first day in Iraq, in Germany, get to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. Apparently NBC paid trips for his family to visit, and many other expenses. At the same time he has a very supportive wife and family. Anyone who has seen astonishing Woodruff documentary, hasdeeply affected by it. But Woodruff almost died, and had just died. In the documentary, he tells us that after the first hit, he opened his eyes, there was light and he looked at his own body.
Many people recall referred to these types of phenomena, near-death experiences (NDE). What are they always, as I believe that Mr. Woodruff was living with good reason. It has to do something very important, and he is someone who can. He was elected to bring his wife Lee, theAttention of as many Americans as possible, the sad neglect of our wounded veterans. There are hundreds of thousands of these veterans from World War II to today, languishing in VA hospitals throughout the country, or desperate attempt to find their way through the maze, no matter in the largest bureaucracy ever created, the American military government.
Woodruff is very careful to point out, just like countless others, have been the military under the direct care that wethe best and most courageous doctors and nurses in the world. In fact, as a civilian embassy in Vietnam, I was in a hospital for a while and I can confirm, dass But once these wounded soldiers to leave their doctors and therapists, and enter a military or VA medical facility in the United states there is a sharing between patients and patient care. The administration is awarding contracts for the staff to care for patients. What a shame. These "employees" are cheaper to hire andSub-standard. I would not adjust well to turn to my driveway.
In the 1990s, I wrote a series of stories about the veterans of the Vietnam era for VFW Magazine. One story was about women veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I went to VA facilities throughout the country to see how these women cope with their recoveries. Because women typically marry made himself invisible by blending into the private lives and families, I called the story "America's InvisibleVeterans. "Conditioned, with the supervisor to ignore the recognition of the needs of others and their own, most of these women, their nightmares in a suitcase buried in the basement.
Dr. Jessica Wolfe, then assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, worked only with the return of male Vietnam veterans with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. I worked closely with Dr. Wolfe, who had just started treating a new program at the Boston VA Medical Center to former officers, the women had toserved in Vietnam as nurses. I interviewed some of these nurses, they had seen the most terrible battles and treated the horrendous losses. With marked anxiety and panic disorders elements of the afflicted, asked the women to take on the first floor to avoid elevators, if they could meet in the patient's wheelchair.
As war photographers were a few nurses in a position to be removed from the blood and gore of the battlefield through the lens of a camera. A former nurse hadSlides stored in their home, away from their children, and she did not see in 25 years. After significant group therapy with Dr. Wolfe could look dispassionately at the color slides and admit it was a part of her life, which was too late. My goal in this context is to emphasize what is possible for our veterans recovery. We have excellent doctors in this country. If anyone is entitled to it, it is our veterans. That the Veterans Administration has suffered a loss inFunding over the years is no secret. It's just that nobody talks about it. The present facilities are unacceptable and a bloated bureaucracy is indifferent, is a disgrace. And the bells keep ringing.
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