Tomorrow I have my first appointment with the VA Hospital. I have been thinking about veteran benefits a lot because of this. I am going at the insistance of my wife and the fact that my blood pressure medication is up to $100.00 a month.

I honestly believe being a veteran is an obligation to your country. I have posted several times that I thought that only veterans should have the right to vote and I half way really mean that. However, as far as the "benefits" are concerned, I don't think the government owes its vets anything. We owed the country our time and our efforts as citizens. We owed our fellow citizens something, not the other way around. We paid the price of gaining the right to live in the best country in the world by defending it. It has repaid us many times over with our opportunities and benefits of just being here. No, the country is not perfect and yes it could be improved but this is not an improvement that is necessary in my opinion.

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Its better to have fussed and crabbed then never to have fussed at all - Lucy