How Could this have Happened to so Many for so Long?

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First, it was the Viet Nam Vets, now the Iraq Veterans are suffering...and many surviving Viet Nam Vets are STILL suffering...

Personally, I would like to see an initiative to upgrade the VA Home Loan Guarantee Program for Veterans who are 30% or more disabled, to provide them with an interest-free loan unrelated to credit status.

I think the lack thereof has been a big reason why many vets wind-up on the streets after a war...they are young, they didn't have any credit
       A fatigued soldier in Iraq

when they went into the Service and don't have any credit when they get out. Beyond this, they may be physically or emotionally scarred from their war experience and where they end up is usually on the streets because their families can't handle them. For no more reason than this, our servicemen and women need and deserve to have a place of their own to go to when they return home from war.

I also think that the current Home Loan Guarantee Program for Vets is pretty-much a sham because of the credit requirements which can become a 'glass window' for many disabled vets who don't have credit when they get out of the service...

...in many ways, a VA Loan is no better than a regular loan for any other citizen of the country.

I think we can do better for our Veterans.

The inability to get into a home when one gets out of the service can lead to the street, despair and suicide for many of our veterans.

Is this the way the Nation should be treating its heroes?

'You've got to have an address and a telephone number to get a job and as long as a Vet is willing to work the Nation should also be able to guarantee that a Vet gets a job with dignity for as long as he lives.'

If we can't, then we should stop using our young men and women in the service as an extension of our foreign policy.

                        
John McCain is the Right Candidate for America because he understands what's best for America and its veterans!

He understands, because he's 'been there, done that!'

Nobody understands the plight of a veteran and the military better than a military man or veteran himself.

The Right Candidate for Our Veterans is John McCain - He is Our Troops BEST HOPE for JUSTICE and COMPASSION after they have returned home from battle!

[P.S. Please don't make me say that this has happened because there is a perceived difference at the Congressional level between the value of an officer over the worth of an enlisted man?

Are some officers, born with a silver spoon in their mouth, inherently insensitive to the plight of their usually less-educated enlisted counterpart?

My feeling is that this is, in fact, the major reason why the 'glass window' exists in the administration of veterans' benefits and why so many of our soldiers from less-than- privileged backgrounds find themselves in deep trouble with society when they get home from war.]

 
By James Carder

An Oregon Democrat for John McCain