Passing on a great idea.

Originally posted at Spadoman’s Peace Blog

I got this in an e-mail from a good friend. This sounds like a very good idea.

Whatever your stance on the war…….

When you are making out your Yuletide / Holiday / Christmas / Chanukah / Kwanzaa / Thanksgiving / Seasonal card list this year,

Consider including one or more to the following:

A Recovering American soldier
C/O Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington,D.C. 20307-5001

Add a picture of something you are thankful or grateful for.

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Walter Reed is still a clusterf**k according to the GAO

Paul Reickhoff, of IAVA, has a piece up at HuffPo about the latest reports showing Walter Reed Army Hospital is still a quagmire and our wounded soldiers are still suffering. The 32 page GAO report is here for your viewing. Below a short blurb from Paul’s HuffPo writeup;

This latest report joins the increasing chorus of bipartisan commissions, independent review groups, and task forces which all confirm that the DoD and the VA are ill-prepared to meet the needs of returning servicemembers. Among its findings, the GAO concluded that there has been little progress in rectifying staffing shortfalls, facilitating VA/DoD data sharing, and streamlining disability evaluation systems. Processing disability payments still takes an average of 177 days. Furthermore, efforts to improve the care provided to servicemembers with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have also been largely unsuccessful: only 6 of the Army’s 32 Warrior Transition Units had completed training for all staff. (You can read the complete report here.)

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