Wounded Warriors

Duty   Honor   Country … the guiding principles of our Armed Forces. 

With them are courage, commitment, integrity and faithfulness.

Semper Fidelis 

Obviously, these words have no meaning to the community organizers running our country.

On Monday 16 March 2009, Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion met with President Obama to discuss a proposal by the administration to shift the financial responsibility for caring for our wounded to the private sector. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs in such cases.  In effect, the VA would be required to bill the private insurance of wounded veterans for service related injuries.

As a Nation we promised our war fighters that we  would ‘..care for him who shall have borne the battle’.  The Obama bean-counters figure they can raise $540 million by billing veterans for treatment of service connected disabilities.

The true nature of “Change we can believe in” becomes apparent when in this era of multi-billion dollar bailouts to Wall Street, hedge funds, mega banks and the like, this Administration can deny a paultry $540 million to our wounded veterans.

Please contact your representatives and demand honorable treatment for our wounded veterans.

Promises made must be promises kept.