[oooyay]

I had a comment here that described the committees that people could write to in order to change things, but it got voted down to zero.

> You could even trial it via a (much needed) VA nursing home program for vets

I appreciate the gesture but this is not a good idea. The VA's funding, as well as programs administered by the VA, is subject to tit for tat battles in the House Appropriations Committee. That's to say, it will get gutted over time if you create it. When it is gutted the two sides will create competing narratives of which you will never be able to discover truths from. This has been happening for generations and the VA frankly isn't that old.

Example:

- https://appropriations.house.gov/news/blogs/democrats-vote-a...

- https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releas...

[frenchyatwork]

The unwillingness, on all sides of political spectrum, to provide physical and psychological support to former military members in modern democracies is something that completely baffles me.

In Canada, at least, no-one wants to join the military because it's a shit job with shit pay, and what we end up with is a small contingent of volunteers who are either a) highly idealistic or b) excited to commit war crimes, and that is why the Canadian Airborne Regiment is no longer a thing.