Last night I finally had the chance to watch all of the program CNN did on our wounded warriors. At the end of the program they said Ty and his new wife were getting divorced.
As sad as Ty's story is, the fight he had to get what he wouldn't need if he didn't get wounded serving, the fact his brother is serving in the Marines as well, there is this love story coming to an end.
We know the divorce rate, especially with PTSD veterans is high, but we never stop to think about the added stress of having to fight the government to obtain what these veterans should have received without any delays at all.
To ask them to come home with no income for at least six months while they wait for a claim to work to the top of the pile, or worse, be turned down, is a disgrace. It's added stress on an already stressed out veteran and the family standing by their side.
They come back home more in this war that in others. The survival rate is 7 wounded for every 1 killed. They are surviving what would have killed them during the Vietnam war. Why is it that we can be so interested in saving their lives and so disinterested in what happens to them, what kind of life they will have or what kind of lives their families will have? It makes no sense at all to not take care of the ones saved. This should never be an issue whenever this country decides to commit men and women to a military action that will risk their lives and wound them. This should be one of the first things planed for and if things don't go as they should, this should be the first emergency supplemental funding request made. Why are they always last on the to do list?
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