As a veteran, I can tell you that we really don’t want “thank you’s”. We want cash.

Active Duty Military in the lower ranks qualify for Food Stamps.  

W. C. Peterson says:

November 11, 2013 at 7:47 am

War is the ultimate waste. We can’t pay our soldiers enough to keep their families off food stamps, yet we buy $600 million airplanes that can’t fly in a light rain? It looks like simply preparing for war is a huge waste of resources, too. Maybe we should adopt the pentagon as the International symbol for waste.

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