Black Box Report

In my business, more often than not, there are shades of grey. Arguments or explanations mitigating black or white answers. When it comes to veteran care, however, the facts speak for themselves. Veterans, young and old, stood tall for America, and now an obscenely large number of them find themselves shortchanged or worse.

Only a fool would argue the status quo is acceptable, but decent people argue it's too daunting. My suggestion to those is visit the Montrose VA Hospital, talk to the vets and tell me if they couldn't be your grandfather, uncle or sister. Listen to their realities and tell me if the V.A.'s plan or rationale to close Montrose is worth a hill of beans.

Beyond Walter Reed, and anacronyms like TBI. and PTSD, we the people now know vets have gotten a raw deal, but it's much more than that. Men and women we should be honoring need more than medals and applause, they need what America promised them. Let's start making things right with Montrose.