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Originally Posted by grh1904
As much as it pains me to say this, our cousins in the good ole US of A do get it right when it comes to their attitude towards veterans.
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Veterans they meet in the street, yes. Veterans with less limbs than they had before they went out are almost completely forgotten.
And there's quite a few of those now. The US stopped releasing injury figures, they prevent news teams visiting the hospitals, in some cases they stopped relatives and friends visiting the wards- the guys were being moved to meeting rooms like prisoners, so that the visitors wouldn't see how many people were left in the same boat. Terrible stuff really.
But then, we pretty much do that too, the treatment for injured vets is often pretty ropey here.