The Obama administration is backing off the suggestion to charge veterans for their health care. It only seems fair that when we ask people to surrender their personal civil liberties for a period of time and take extraordinary risk limb and life that we honor whatever we promised them before we got them to do so.
Two observations come immediately:
1. We never factor in this cost when we decide to go to war. We really need to do better accounting before we become so internationally adventurous.
2. From 1945 until 1993 only one president did not have military experience. Since then we have had two draft dodgers and one who was not old enough to be subject to a draft. It seems likely that with our volunteer military that it may be a long time before another veteran becomes president. This is neither good nor bad per se, but it will not be hard to understand when veterans become uneasy in the next decade or two.
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