VA "Care" for Traumatic Brain Injury Cases?

It's pretty much non-existent. A USA Today story describes the grief associated with long-term care for vveterans suffering the "signature combat wounds" of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I've long said that we are seeing a quantum increase in the number of severely disabled veterans, who are coming home alive -- if you can call it that -- but suffering from wounds that would have been fatal nearly 100% of the time in Vietnam.

And the VA, overworked and underfunded by the evil BFEE, still doesn't quite know what to do with them. They deal with them by running them through the VA facilities as quickly as possible and then dumping them out into nursing homes.

It is a travesty that this administration is treating wounded veterans this way. But I guess once you're disabled, you are no longer of use to The Empire. Get out of the way, cripple, and make room for more cannon fodder.

If you haven't read Dalton Trumbo's troubling anti-war masterpiece, Johnny Got His Gun in a while -- or if you've never read it -- I suggest you do so. It was written in 1939 and described the horrors experienced by a severely wounded WWI infantryman.

And the more things change, the more they remain the same...