I watched this music video for the first time right after coming home from my last deployment … I cried like a baby. It’s hard to explain to the people what it feels like to come home without ever coming home, this video nailed it.
FFDP know how to get their message across for sure. The sad part is, I think this is about 10-11 years old now so these numbers have gone so much higher. Now with the current issues it’s MUCH MUCH higher. The sad thing is “they” have shown their hand now that they could have come up with money a LONG time ago to fix this or be as close as to fixing it for most veterans. I think that is the most maddening part. My whole family is full of veterans and as a kid my dad had me involved in helping vets in my community and I’ve carried that forward. I work in public safety and we look out for each other, like the military brothers and sisters do. They’ve earned the right to help in my opinion. This shouldn’t still be this way, and it definitely shouldn’t be so much worse. They can’t prove they can come up with billions out of nowhere to help people who haven’t done anything to earn it. (that the majority of people would rather see our vets taken care of FIRST). The protect us, so I will do what I can whether it’s just calling them or bringing them cooked meals or literally any appreciation means everything to the people who have be left behind by the same government that put them into bad situations. So it doesn’t take a lot to do something, just anyone take one step. There are places you can go to easily find one person you could sponsor and help. If “they” won’t do it, we can do at least something small. The ripple effect will follow. 💗🙏🏼🇺🇸
My father served 22 years in the air force he retired in the late 1970s and was screwed up in his head I'd hear him tell my mom every night he was going to kill us all and his father told him if he got mental health help he was no longer a man