A decade long battle is over
Some might call it winning, but I am tired and bitter from fighting for scraps
I’ll never be one of those guys with the ball cap that advertises what I did. I will never wear a jacket covered in patches that memorialize my exploits and combat activities.
Here is what I think I know after fighting for compensation with the Veteran’s Administration for a decade. I think I know that America treats its veterans like pieces of animated garbage. I think I know that veterans who were broken by serving in combat zones are, by default, lying about their disabilities until they prove otherwise by engaging in a debasing and intentionally painstaking process that takes years to decades. I think I know that we who fight America’s wars are trained to be grateful for any scraps the rich and powerful are willing to give us.
At the end of this fight that lasted a decade, I hate capitalism and all that it retards. Like taking care of broken people. People broken by a system that taught them to believe the people at the top of the system are comp…
