Letter to Congress Regarding the Latest Obama Outrage Against Veterans

Dear Senator Feinstein/Senator Boxer/Rep. Jane Harmon,

I am writing you today regarding President Obama’s recent proposal to charge U.S. combat veterans (through their insurance carriers) for treatment received as a result of injuries suffered on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.  

I have been a close observer of the political scene for some years now and I have never heard a more outrageous, indefensible and utterly un-American idea as this one– and I’m not even a veteran.  The fact that President Obama would seriously consider such a notion speaks volumes about his stunning lack of understanding of, and respect for, America’s deepest-held military traditions.  The fact that such a heinous proposal would even see the light of day is a chilling indictment of the entire Obama administration and its agenda for this nation.   (more…)