Did not see this posted in any of the forums:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/walmart-fire-making-veteran-sit-outside-rain-170750476.html
I clicked on this story, saw the first photo, and it made my eyes well up before I could read the story. The disrespect shown to this veteran was over whelming. My grandfathers and father served proudly in the USMC, and my brother still serves in the USMC, so maybe that is why it had the impact.
This Vietnam Vet, whom I can not even begin to imagine the return home treatment he experienced back in the 60's/70's, still puts on his uniform to raise money for other veterans and was treated in this fashion. Not only wears the uniform, but wears it as if he is going to be inspected. He remains at his post in the rain, as if he were the Old Guard at the Tomb, and continues to perform his volunteered duty.
How can anyone either walking by, or employed by that store-rules be damned, have allowed this veteran to be treated like this? Someone actually had to request a canopy to be provided? He is not selling cookies or candy bars to go to the next jamboree or buy new uniforms, he is trying to help other veterans.
Maybe I am too sensitive, but the way veterans are treated in this country makes me sick. Alternative lifestyles, snowflakes, etc are treated better then those who put on a uniform, ship out to a foreign land, and are asked to perform duties knowing they are at risk of being KIA'd. Then when the veterans return, they have crappy health care to treat in-service experienced wounds (mental, emotional, or physical), and minimal support structure. How the hell are veterans homeless in this country, yet some folks want to go out of their way to help those who swam across a border or jumped a fence? To top it off, I have to see a veteran still volunteering service by trying to help his fellow veterans be subjected to this disrespect.
Rant over, but this type of crap in this country just pisses me off to tears. I shouldnt have to see a veteran being treated like this.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/walmart-fire-making-veteran-sit-outside-rain-170750476.html
I clicked on this story, saw the first photo, and it made my eyes well up before I could read the story. The disrespect shown to this veteran was over whelming. My grandfathers and father served proudly in the USMC, and my brother still serves in the USMC, so maybe that is why it had the impact.
This Vietnam Vet, whom I can not even begin to imagine the return home treatment he experienced back in the 60's/70's, still puts on his uniform to raise money for other veterans and was treated in this fashion. Not only wears the uniform, but wears it as if he is going to be inspected. He remains at his post in the rain, as if he were the Old Guard at the Tomb, and continues to perform his volunteered duty.
How can anyone either walking by, or employed by that store-rules be damned, have allowed this veteran to be treated like this? Someone actually had to request a canopy to be provided? He is not selling cookies or candy bars to go to the next jamboree or buy new uniforms, he is trying to help other veterans.
Maybe I am too sensitive, but the way veterans are treated in this country makes me sick. Alternative lifestyles, snowflakes, etc are treated better then those who put on a uniform, ship out to a foreign land, and are asked to perform duties knowing they are at risk of being KIA'd. Then when the veterans return, they have crappy health care to treat in-service experienced wounds (mental, emotional, or physical), and minimal support structure. How the hell are veterans homeless in this country, yet some folks want to go out of their way to help those who swam across a border or jumped a fence? To top it off, I have to see a veteran still volunteering service by trying to help his fellow veterans be subjected to this disrespect.
Rant over, but this type of crap in this country just pisses me off to tears. I shouldnt have to see a veteran being treated like this.
