We Support The Troops — But Not In Our Backyard.

This image taken from Google Maps shows the vacant building that would house a new veterans center in San Diego.

Vet Rehab Center? Not In My Backyard! -- Stars and Stripes

A proposed rehabilitation facility for veterans in San Diego is garnering opposition from local residents who say they support the troops — just not in their backyard.

The head of one Washington-based veterans advocacy group called their opposition “shameful.”

“President Obama and the VA along with states are finally starting to do the right things to help veterans. It is shameful that someone would stand in the way,” Patrick Bellon, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, told Stars and Stripes. “They just may not want to come face to face with the consequences of the wars from which they have been so insulated, but our veterans who fought in those wars need help nonetheless. It seems wrong that 1 percent would bear the brunt of these conflicts and a community would just scoff at an opportunity to repay that sacrifice.”

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My Comment: I expect such behavior in places like San Francisco, Manhattan, or Seattle .... neighborhoods that tend to lean "leftwards" politically and have a strong anti-war/military outlook. But San Diego has major military bases as well as having numerous vets living there ..... shameful .... now that's an understatement.