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This is horrible. These vets didn& #39;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">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/2...
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">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/2...
2/ There& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s not enough to wear hats. We need to BE great in order to earn that right.
7/ And cutting veterans& #39; 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.
