To paraphrase Billy Sunday: What this country needs is fighting men, not hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mushy-fisted, jelly-spined, pussy-footin’, four-flushing, Charlotte Russe politicians and bureaucrats.
Back when I was in this veteran shelter’s Veterans In Progress program (or pogrom, depending how you look at it), I took a Saturday or a Sunday and drove all the way over to Gardena to check on my attorney, Don, the 74 year-old dog-smelling camper-dwelling anarchist.
I’d buy him breakfast or lunch and maybe take him somewhere he needed to go and that was that.
He couldn’t get around very much because the camper he lived in, an old 25-foot Jamboree, was in shambles. Then I gave him the RV I had been living in and I moved in to the veterans shelter.
Let me ask you limp-spine Christians this: How many of you have seen a man in need and given him your home? I mean moved out of your home so you could give it to some homeless person like I did? How many?
I thought so. You can't tell me shit about your religion because now I know you're living a lie. But I've digressed. Back to our story.
Now that Don is living in my peppy, easy to maneuver ’76 Ford El Dorado RV, he comes to visit me. Well, mostly he comes to visit the mess hall, the dumpsters at the sushi factory next door to my homeless shelter, the shelter chow hall’s wide screen TV (donated) and the free movies (donated) in the theater room, but I get visited, too.
Some of the other veterans have adopted my attorney, too, so Don can hang around chewing the fat with the older veterans or get sponsored through the mess hall line for a free dinner (donated) without having to come upstairs to wake me.
Last night Don and I were in the mess hall watching 60 Minutes. They had a segment about how the United States government is trying to CHEAT some American POWs out of money the POWs already won in court. CHEAT them on a trumped up legal technicallity.
It seems from the 60 Minutes segment that our current government would rather give the money earmarked for our fighting men, our P.O.W.s, to our enemies in Iraq.
Even my attorney Don, an ACLU card-carrying anarchist who is so anti-war that he sometimes slips into blaming the soldiers for the messes that the civilians get us into, even he could not understand such a betrayal.
Business as usual, I told him, the American people ALWAYS betray their own troops.
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