The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)
Today is Memorial Day – the day on which we honor the memory of the servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation.
All caring and thinking people should take at least a moment today to lift up these heroes.
And today would also be a good one to help assure that the government supports the heroes who are still with us.
And sadly, the need here is great.
As recent news reports have recounted in painful detail, Trump administration budget cuts are decimating the already understaffed and underfunded Veterans Administration and VA hospitals. More than 80,000 employees are being fired and that’s sure to wreak havoc with the services upon which millions of military veterans depend.
At a Voices for Veterans event in Fayetteville last week, several vets blasted the cuts as cruel, shortsighted, and sure to cause enormous pain and suffering.
The bottom line: Memorial Day is about remembering those we’ve lost – that’s for sure – but we also honor their sacrifice by doing everything in our power to spare living veterans from an early grave.
For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.
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