User profile: DMZMarine

I feel sorry for her family. Her 15 (3 Months) minutes of fame will kill her family. When you sell your soul to the devil you have hell to pay.

I tried for years as a NSO in the 70's to get the government help for combat veterans. It is different now. It was hard because the system was controled by folks who was about as close to combat as Fort Knox. I have little compassion for those bad backs because of weight gain and bad habits. Yes if you have PTSD and a combat veteran high blood pressure is common. But from training. Sorry.

I am sorry but I do not think high blood pressue amounts to a military disabily because of hard wear on our GI's. I do not think a broken leg in a private car wreak is from wear and tear of being a soldier.

I am for being good to our vets, but I want the Iraqi, Afgan vet with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress getting most of the money from disability payments.

I am for the girl raped by fellow soldiers while on duty getting PTSD payments without stress of proving it in court. For years many many retired military have been getting sugar for just spending 20 years in the military.

I honor their service, but I also honor my grand parents who paid taxes for 60 years and get nothing except a maze of insurance confusion when they go to the Doctor.

Now that I said my piece I want to say Obama is more apt to help combat veterans and stramline the VA then McCain. Why? McCain never has helped vets.

McCain thinks veterans complain too much. You see in my opinion John McCain who by most standards set by the Department of Veteran Affairs has PTSD.

Ending tax on a retired military person is ok. What bothers me is those non military people who have paid taxes all their life and get little benefits in their life, only a confusion of medical insurance, and unable to pay for drugs.

These military people they want to stop taxing had a successful career in the military and most if not all their problems are not military related. They just happened to have them while they were in the military.

I am also surprized many Americans think the Iraqi and Afgan veteran problems never existed in the VA until Bush's war. Combat veterans for years have been insulted and humiliated for years. I remember one hispanic veteran asking the VA for help (who was on the Battaan Death March) was told his problems were because he drank too much, and came from a poor mexican american family. This was in 1979. True story!