Why are being discarded, like a used Humvee, after put their lives on the line for Bush’s “cluster fuck” otherwise know as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are too many told and untold stories about benefits and medical treatment being denied or withheld from needy Veterans. Veterans WE OWE!!

I am not a Vet but and whether I support the wars is irrelevant to the fact that these men and women sacrificed much including the ultimate sacrifice which can never be fully repaid. The very least we can do is treat them with respect and give them their due whether that be money, education or medical services.

But instead of gladly giving them what they were promised we extend the war they must fight only now it is the U.S. government and the Veterans Administration.

Consider the case of Army Spc. Jason Hubbard who was forced to leave the combat zone after his two brothers died in the Iraq war. The military cut off his family’s health care, stopped his GI educational subsidies and wanted him to repay his sign-up bonus it wasn’t until Hubbard petitioned his local congressman that he was able to restore some of his benefits.

"I felt as if in some ways I was being punished for leaving even though it was under these difficult circumstances," Hubbard said. "The situation that happened to me is not a one-time thing. It’s going to happen to other people, and to have a law in place is going to ease their tragedy in some way."

Hubbard, 33, and his youngest brother, Nathan, enlisted while they were still grieving for their brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Hubbard, who was 22 when he was killed in a 2004 bomb explosion in Ramadi.

At their request, the pair were assigned to the same unit, the 3rd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, and deployed to Iraq the next year.

In August, Cpl. Nathan, 21, died when his Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Kirkuk. Jason was part of the team assigned to remove his comrades’ bodies.

He kept silent and steady during Nathan’s burial at Clovis Cemetery, but broke his silence when he found out that his wife, pregnant with their second child, had been cut off from the transitional health care the family needed to ease back to civilian life after he was discharged in October.

This is a man who asked for nothing and gave everything only to have to deal with this horseshit when he returned home. Oh yes, we will be sure to wave a flag, shake his hand and give him a parade on Veterans Day or the Fourth of July and feel that we satisfied the debt we owe.

But have we? I think not!

What is it going to take to ensure that this will never happen again to America’s Veterans and if we do err, that we do so in favor of the Veteran who served his or her country, right or wrong? What is it going to take?