But we’re wearing our yellow ribbons
I’m still appalled that this had to be built with private funding.
The Associated Press: Ground Broken on Family Support Center
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Officials and volunteers broke ground Saturday on a $4 million support center for the families of severely wounded soldiers who seek treatment and rehabilitation here.
The privately funded facility will be the Army’s first designed specifically to aid the wives, children and parents of severely wounded service members. It will replace a cramped room at the Brooke Army Medical Center that opened months after the start of the Iraq war.
Judith Markelz, the program manager for the Warrior and Family Support Center, said the initial center was opened in December 2003 “naively thinking we’d close in six months.”
These soldiers have sacrificed so that their lives will never be the same again. The rest of us can’t even give up a tax cut to help finance military and veteran care. But then again, our president hasn’t even asked anyone else to make any changes in their lifestyle otherwise it would mean the terrorist would win. So is the Iraq War version of the World War II victory gardens?
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