Reply #6: here, go thank your HEROES anytime you want...they're back and

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they are here everyday, just like when they came back from Vietnam...so go there, and thank them....bush* has THROWN them out without any adequate housing, jobs, or medical care...just like Vietnam...now, YOU can go thank them....because bush* won't....

it never was that the American Citizens treated our returning Vietnam Vets badly...the REALITY is that the American GOVERNMENT treated our Vets badly, and still does....if you cared, you'd be down protesting at the Veterans' Hospitals everyday, like we did when the Vietnam Vets came home....


bush* has sent home 18,000 soldiers like these...go thank them...they are bush* DISPOSABLE HEROES, just like Vietnam...

Spc. Sam Ross, 21, combat engineer, 82nd Airborne Division, was injured May 18, 2003 in Baghdad when a bomb blew up during a munitions disposal operation. He is blind and an amputee. Photographed in the woods near his trailer where he lives alone in Dunbar Township, Pennsylvania October 19, 2003.




Sgt. Jeremy Feldbusch, 24, a Ranger, 3rd Battalion, 75th Regiment was injured April 3, during an artillery attack near the Hadithah Dam. Feldbusch, who was first in his class of 228 Rangers, is now brain damaged and blind. He sees nothing but darkness. Photographed in his home in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, October 18, 2003.




"I'm burning on the inside. I'm burning."

Cpl Tyson Johnson III, 22, a mechanic with 205 Military Intelligence, was injured in a mortar attack on the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad on September 20, 2003. He suffered massive internal injuries and is 100 percent disabled. Photographed in Prichard, Alabama May 6, 2004, where he lives in his car.

Shrapnel down the back, shrapnel that came in and hit my head, punctured my lungs. I broke both of my arms. I lost a kidney. My intestines was messed up. They took an artery out of my left leg and put it into this right arm. They pretty much took my life. Pretty much.

I was supposed to be going to physical and occupational therapy then they canceled it because I missed 3 days in a row. I was throwing up, I couldn't hold anything in my stomach. Now I have to do OT myself. I'm trying to teach my son how to count on his hand. And you can see my fingers is messed up. Sometimes my hands will be so red, so fire red, I'm not able to drive. I've got to put on my gloves. I'm not able to touch anything.

I got a bonus in the National Guards for joining the Army. Now I've got to pay the bonus back and it's $2999. If I would have continued and finished my contract I wouldn't have to pay it back. The Guard wants it back. It's on my credit that I owe them that. I'm burning on the inside. I'm burning.








from "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq"....bush* Disposable Heroes...
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/purplehearts_intro.html