Letter: Troops should get respect they deserve

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | 7:24 a.m.

Is it any wonder that it has been said that the Army is "broken"? One only has to read Bob Herbert's March 11 column in the Las Vegas Sun, "Troops' treatment should be no surprise," for the answers and who is responsible for allowing the deterioration - the Bush administration.

Even so, more troops, from our already thinning available troops, are being sent. Herbert's eye-opening, frank and heart-rending statement - "There is something profoundly evil about a country encouraging young men and women to go off and fight its wars and then shortchanging them on medical care and other forms of assistance when they come back with wounds that will haunt them forever ..." - has been burned in my mind and should be an awakening call to all of us loyal Americans.

What has happened to our beloved country and our system of values and ideals?

Leopold A. Potsiadlo, Las Vegas

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