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why are we not taking care of our veterans? Does anyone in their right mind think that Cpl. Dixon and Sgt. Mesell were just taking a Sunday stroll in Iraq or on a holiday! There were there because they were sent there by our government. They were doing their duty regardless of whether they were engaged in combat or not and yes just by being there they were engaged in combat. I am sure they did not become aggressive; they were in a situation that resulted from the aggressiveness of people who did not want them to be in their country. As the result of this why should these veterans and their families suffer?

They were there because our politicians put them there and until our politicians stop playing the "money game" in countries that have things we want or need, then the part of "doing business as usual" should be to pay our disabled veterans what they deserve when they are sent on missions by our government.

Isn't it time that our government started to protect the people who protect us. Isn't it time that some of the money we send to countries that really don't want us there to be spent here in our country.

As the mother of the children of a Korean war Navel veteran, the widow of a Marine veteran of WWII and Korea, the grandmother of two Navy service people, the mother-in-law of an Army serviceman in his 22nd year and the aunt of 2 U.S. Air Force Majors, I say, "I don't know about you, but I am mad as hell and it is time for a change!"

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