Do you really want to help veterans?
Then why don't you honor them by lavishing help to our wounded warriors with PTSD, by providing service dogs, therapies, groups, and community center for vets and their family. That would truly be an honor. Wouldn't that be a true way to those who served our country? We have enough monuments, museums, and assorted services, heritage, honors in the past to the dead and gone, my father included.
It's our current veterans' time now. Help those vets who are alive and able to make not just the veteran, but his entire family as well, a chance at a good life.
Cat Martinez
East Ridge
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It's not a contest. One group of veterans is not more important than another. One group's service doesn't outweigh another. We not only need to be helping our "current veterans", we also need to help the younger generations remember the past. You'd be surprised how clueless the younger generations are to wars of the past, what Memorial Day really means, why when a terrorist attack came to our military here, people were leaving pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters at the memorials.
We need a museum so that the younger generations will realize exactly how much has been sacrificed for their freedom and for how long. That in turn will help them understand, and hopefully encourage them to volunteer some of their time to helping our veterans who are still with us.
Mariah Smith