The cure for the evils of
democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on
Democracy, 1926
Monday
is Veterans Day, and the Madison Conservative is proud to reprint an earlier
post focused on our veterans. It is especially relevant this year as the politics
of pettiness forced the closure of monuments honoring our vets.
This
is not an easy argument to make, but one that must be made and understood by
the American electorate.
To
wit, the earlier post:
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
At a time when the body politic is abuzz
over peripheral issue nonsense it is perhaps a fitting time to turn our
attention to a matter of true national importance.
To wit:
There are many worthy charities that need to
be supported by the public at large. There is currently running a series of
commercials promoting the cause of the Wounded Warrior Project. The one that
created the impetus for this blog post featured Trace Adkins.
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
The charity is focused solely on helping
returning disabled veterans and their families cope with the adjustments
inherent with a disability coupled with the stresses related to the rigors of
war inflicted upon the mind and body of our returning veterans.
The website address is being repeated
throughout this blog to show support and solidarity with their intended
mission.
That being said, and speaking as a United
States Navy veteran, the fact that this organization was created out of a need
to fill a void should be an embarrassment upon the military bureaucracy
specifically entrusted with the care of our veterans, and should be an outrage
to the electorate at large.
It is a disgrace that in the United Sates of
America our veterans need to have an organization outside of the military ask
for funds to help with their transition back to civilian life, to say nothing
of asking for financial support to aid in their adaptive needs for a war
inflicted disability.
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
There is constant dialogue throughout the
nation that we must “support the troops even if we disagree with the mission”,
one of the hard learned lessons at the expense of our Vietnam War veterans: a
true national disgrace whose wounds we are hopefully beginning to heal by
acknowledging the treatment of those particular veterans and doing all we can
to guarantee that such treatment of our military is never repeatIt is crucial
to understand that there is absolutely not one infinitesimal bit of daylight
between the Madison Conservative and the wonderful folks at the Wounded Warrior
Project.
The issue here is that there should never be
a need for the private sector to provide anything of substantive necessity for
our veterans and their needs when they return from battle. The men and women of
our all voluntary military provide the protection and safety that allows us to
become enraptured with the absurdities of any number of inconsequential
matters, such as the current national political electoral theater.
The members of our armed forces choose to
fill the role of protector, and their families bear the emotional and financial
burdens of that decision. They should never be placed in the position of having
to ask any private enterprise for help in providing whatever support –
physical, emotional or financial – the veteran and their family may need as
they acclimate back to a civilian life while coping with a injury
suffered in defense of American liberty and freedom.
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
If we break the explicit and implicit social
contract with our soldiers, seamen, marines and airmen, America will no
longer be the home of the brave and land of the free.
We will be too busy having telethons to
raise money for guns, and asking corporations to help with a ‘buy a bullet’
campaign.
The Wounded Warrior Project is truly a charity
that speaks to our higher ideals; but it should fall onto the American people
through the military bureaucracy to insure that no veteran should ever need to
ask a private entity for help.
We as a people are better than that.
Non sibi sed patriae
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