Lark_McCarthy's Blog

I believe that it is an autrocity the way our veterans are treated when they return home. I even heard that when they are wounded in Iraq that they have to spend their own money to get back to the United States. I hope that this is only hearsay and isn't correct.

But I have met men who served in the first gulf war and they were greatly abused by Gulf War Syndrome and other things that this country didn't feel the need to address. I went to the Congressional Black Caucus Conference in September of 2006 and they had a special session for veterans in the Gulf War and I was appalled to hear how many of them; leaders in our communities, were totally ignored and abused by the Department of Veteran Affairs as their medical needs were overlooked and their attempt to get answers to their conditions were ignored.

And when they went to friends and family who were in the medical profession; they found out that they were suffering from other forms of Gulf War Syndrome themselves. And that the military was keeping information about depleted uranium that they were using in bullets and cannon shells and tank shells a secret as to its affect on people once it gets in the air and becomes a gas like substance.

And to my amazement; after 13 years of wondering what Gulf War Syndrome was; I got my answers at that meeting. These little dirty secrets are being hidden by the military and it is an autrocity that they are allowed to be kept secret by a country that is suppose to be truly supporting and taking care of its soldiers.

I could go into more detail but I dont' have the medica