Veterans on VA: 'Get the politics outta the system'

I learned long ago that if you want to hear the talk among veterans, you gotta go to the bar at the VFW Post. That’s where you’ll find men who’ve gone from the Halls of Montezuma to the halls of modest Midwestern ranch houses, men who’ve tamed the wild blue yonder glugging from tame blue cans of Miller Lite. Seemingly ordinary men who have been extraordinary heroes.

They’ve fought for their lives in jungles and deserts, so they could come back home and live them on the plains and in the mountains of the country they kept free. The American veteran is a proud man, often reticent about his experiences far from home, but happy to talk about the home he fought so hard to protect.