Sometimes it takes a war to do the humane thing. Someone posted on my FB the other day, a comment from an American politician wherein he stated something like 'If you are tired of paying for the care of injured Veterans, stop sending them to war!'
My response was to ask if the poster and perhaps the politician, who is a Jewish American and quite old so I would imagine he was around in WWII, do you believe there is no one reason then that we should go to war? Lots of Americans didn't want us to get involved in WWII and we stayed out of it for a long time but then Pearl Harbor happened and we jumped in. War is, sometimes, a necessity.
My other response was to say- equating the service and sacrifice of the veteran to mere dollars and cents is to be wholly ignorant to the understanding of the heart of a veteran. As the daughter of a veteran, the sister of a veteran, and the sister-in-law of a veteran, and the mother of a current service man, these men and women deserve better than that kind of disingenuous rhetoric.
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My response was to ask if the poster and perhaps the politician, who is a Jewish American and quite old so I would imagine he was around in WWII, do you believe there is no one reason then that we should go to war? Lots of Americans didn't want us to get involved in WWII and we stayed out of it for a long time but then Pearl Harbor happened and we jumped in. War is, sometimes, a necessity.
My other response was to say- equating the service and sacrifice of the veteran to mere dollars and cents is to be wholly ignorant to the understanding of the heart of a veteran. As the daughter of a veteran, the sister of a veteran, and the sister-in-law of a veteran, and the mother of a current service man, these men and women deserve better than that kind of disingenuous rhetoric.