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8 August 2005, 10:22

First of all , I would like to thank you for your sevice to our country. And I would like to offer you my services as a language/spelling tutor. Or perhaps your branch of the service offers some classes to help you become more literate. Or perhaps you are dyslexic? At any rate, your outrage over the lack of Veterans benefits is right on the mark. But you are mistakenly laying the blame for lack of support on democrats/progressives. Senator Patty Murray(D) WA State tried over and over to bring the lack of funding to the attention of the entire Senate,in the form of bills aimed at increasing VA funding. She was shot down EVERY time, until it became obvious that the Republicans would be held responsible for their shameful behavior at election time. So they were finally embarrassed publicly into acting to fund the VA. But only enough to keep it going for 2005. What about next year??? This administration is spending a BILLION dollars a week in Iraq, but struggles to find 1.5 Billion. to keep the VA barely functioning. So Mr. Vitalone, perhaps your outrage would be better directed at the Republicans, who support this war,or struggle,or whatever they are calling it this week, and supposedly support our troops. But when they come home, expecting the promises made to them, in return for their (and your) service to our country to be kept, the door is slammed shut in their faces. The Republicans deserve your ire. Give them Hell, they asked for it. Cyra Brown