I was going to write about two American disgraces:

First, there is an appalling  number of returning vets who committed suicide after being turned away by the Veterans Administration medical care facilities. The head of VA psychiatry was once caught suborning false statements in order to get claims denied. This idiot sent out memos and that is how he was caught!

Second, there are any number of returning vets who have severe mental illness, brain damage, PtSD and PTSD. These vets have committed murder and other crimes. They are in prison. 

No one knows, has bothered to find out, or has created any plans  for keeping track of returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets who have ended up in prison.

I wanted to write about how I hate what this country has become. Worse, I hate what the American people have become.

But CNN, the most busted name in news, just put up one of the most disgusting news segments I have ever heard, so this is what I will write today:  

I'm listening to CNN. A Brit and some token Guy are interviewing David Wood from Huffington Post as the expert on Americas returning vets.

David Wood has never served in the military! He's a Quaker, for God's sake.

All three are speaking with a fake sincerity that makes me want to vomit. 

Wood talks with the intellect of a 12 year old as he blathers on about the veterans. He states the obvious as he blathers on about how they try to find jobs with horrible wounds yadda yadda.

Wood and the other two never talk about the VA. Never, not once, nunca, nein, does any one of them mention the VA.

The VA is a failed institution where nothing has been done to improve a hideous backlong in veterans  claims processing that has persisted for over 13 years.

Meanwhile, VA employees get enormous bonuses for showing up at the office.

This mess is continuing even after the VA was ordered by the 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals to clean it up earlier this year.

The VA has arrogantly ignored the 9th circuit order and has appealed it. The VA has considered itself to be above the law and above any court for far too long.

Shinsenki does not even have a "contact me" button on his web page. No matter, he won't even respond to the organizations.The Republicans want us all to forget paying the vets or processing their claims.

The DAV, VFW, AmVets, and more have built a self serving and corrupted relationship with the VA. Those organizations are not getting claims processed, nor are they lobbying successfully to get anything done about the issue. Yet they never stop hitting Americans up for donations.

More and more vets are flocking to the county Veterans Service Officers as they should, but the VSOs  are not funded to take care of them. The VSO's, hands down, have a far better success rate, too.

But the VSO's are in an official bind where vets are forced to sign on with the very same corrupted and useless service organizations that do nothing.  It sucks.

Wood babbles on about the "organizations" that help vets, but can't name more than a couple of the least important organizations in America. What a waste of air time.

Wood keeps blathering on and telling fake stories about vets, then blathering even more about how people need to help.

Then he hesitates and says "...the government", which indicates that he is deliberately dodging even mentioning  the Veterans Administration. 

Does this idiot realize that it is not the local volunteer group, or some national upstart organization, but the VA that should be taking care of the vets that he mentions in his silly stories about missing legs and arms?

CNN and Wood boldly and deliberately colluded to black out any mention of the VA's responsibility for taking care of wounded warriors.

So I'm listening to a woman Brit, a Black guy and a know nothing writer lecture and talk in circles in the most rambling and ignorant way that I have ever witnessed.

After this, I pledge to stop accepting any more thanks for my service.

Those thanks will  not be genuine and they will not be true until Americans make sure that every last veterans claim is processed, and by "processed" I do not mean by delaying them forever or by automatically denying them all.