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This is horrible. These vets didn't just die of the virus; they died in a VA nursing home that was horribly underfunded, and they paid the price.
They Survived the Worst Battles of World War II. And Died of the Virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/they-survived-the-worst-battles-of-world-war-ii-and-died-of-the-virus.html?smid=tw-share
They Survived the Worst Battles of World War II. And Died of the Virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/they-survived-the-worst-battles-of-world-war-ii-and-died-of-the-virus.html?smid=tw-share
2/ There's a guy who never wanted to talk about the war. His kids suggested maybe visiting Normandy for a commemoration, and he just said: No. I've been there once. There was only one time whne anyone saw him get upset about it ...
3/ "It was in the 1990s, and Jim Miller learned for the first time that there were people who denied that the Holocaust had occurred. And Mr. Miller — a man who never got upset about anything — was as angry as his son had ever seen him."
4/ He pulled out an old box of photos -- he must have helped liberate one of the camps -- and sent them to a Holocaust museum.
He didn't die on Omaha Beach. He died of funding cuts at the VA hospital founded to care for veterans like him, in recognition of their service.
He didn't die on Omaha Beach. He died of funding cuts at the VA hospital founded to care for veterans like him, in recognition of their service.
5/ The VA hospital did not isolate the staff who had cared for their first COVID patient. They were short-staffed, so they merged COVID patients with others in one unit.
Guess what? Almost 3/4 of the veterans there ended up testing positive for COVID-19.
Guess what? Almost 3/4 of the veterans there ended up testing positive for COVID-19.
6/ And the guy who never talked about Omaha beach, along with 88 others (of a patient population of 210), is now dead.
If we want to make America great, it's not enough to wear hats. We need to BE great in order to earn that right.
If we want to make America great, it's not enough to wear hats. We need to BE great in order to earn that right.
7/ And cutting veterans' funding so that OVER A THIRD of the population of a VA hospital ends up dead is not great. It is shocking mistreatment of them, and a disgrace to our country.
