Veterans’ Day

So here we are on a holiday that celebrates the sacrifices and triumphs of our nation’s veterans. All honor to them.

Alas, recently declassified information now reveals that both our government and our private sector has once again failed returning veterans. The health care scandal was bad enough, as was the various administration moves to deny them benefits, but here’s what’s happened to the National Guard and Reservists:

“Since 9/11, nearly 11,000 National Guard and Reserve troops have been denied prompt reemployment. 20,000 service men and women had their pensions cut, and another 11,000 lost their health insurance.”

So much for the thanks of a grateful nation.

What’s worse is that the Pentagon apparently was in cahoots with the scumbucket employers who perpetrated this— otherwise why classify this information in the first place?

Yet more evidence that “Support Our Troops” is just a bumper-sticker slogan for those in power.

It would be great to have a list of the offenders, so we know whose tires to slash.