Photo: Sens. John McCain & Hillary Clinton, Intrepid Museum Foundation Chairman Arnold Fisher, Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace and VA Secretary Jim Nicholson, Honor the TroopsVet Snub Shocks Families -- The Daily Beast
America’s top officials were notably absent at the launch of a new veterans' center to care for brain-damaged soldiers. Leslie H. Gelb talks to its chief fundraiser, Arnold Fisher, about our duty to troops with war’s mental wounds.
It was inauguration day for the nation’s most modern facility for the treatment of active-duty soldiers and veterans suffering from brain injuries and psychological disorders—5,000 of them with families on hand. At the podium in Bethesda, Maryland, stood Arnold Fisher, the chief fundraiser for this precious center that may need to care for hundreds of thousands of victims, searching in vain for one White House official, one Cabinet officer, one member of the Joint Chiefs, one senator. He found none. And he asked again and again, “Where are they?”
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My Comment: Another example of the Beltway being completely out of touch (and insensitive) with mainstream America.
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