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Heckuva Way To Say Thanks
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11-19-2008 11:50 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5e5c0d2c-5b69-467c-b6f0-e411e80e97a8/85552B8D-B86A-4DBC-BBFF-4180DCAED7E7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html" href="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html" style="font-size: 11px;">cabdrollery.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html">our newest veterans are facing some pretty bleak prospects when they return from their tours of duty, and the economy is only part of the problem. Those who return with disabling injuries face months, sometimes years, of waiting for the benefits promised them. In an attempt to force quicker delivery of those benefits, two veteran's groups filed a lawsuit</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html">That's outrageous when a returning vet has no means of support, or, even worse, if he or she has no means of supporting a family.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html"><I>The complaint noted that about 3.4 million of the 25 million U.S. veterans receive benefits, and that the number eligible for VA health care has grown since 2001 by about 800,000.</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html"><DIV>Those numbers will continue to grow as long as we are fighting the two wars the Bush Administration so cheerfully gave us. The least we can do while trying to extricate the nation from those wars is take care of the men and women who got caught up in that madness. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/11/heckuva-way-to-say-thanks.html">shameful, that it has to take a lawsuit to do so.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/85552B8D-B86A-4DBC-BBFF-4180DCAED7E7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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