I am the daughter of a military brat.  My dad's father was a career officer.  Respect for the military and the institutions surrounding it are in my
August 5, 2007

I am the daughter of a military brat.  My dad's father was a career officer.  Respect for the military and the institutions surrounding it are in my blood.  And I am just so sickened by the empty rhetoric of "supporting our troops."  I'm just so happy that my grandpop is no longer around to see how disgustingly this administration is treating those from whom they ask to sacrifice everything.

Open Left:

An op-ed in yesterday's Washington Post calls out the Pentagon for its role in hiding the illegal firings of reservists and national guardsmen by their civilian employers when they return from Iraq.  To give an example of the scale of the problem, between 2004 and 2006, there were 16,000 complaints filed by returning troops who are supposed to be protected under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)[..]

When soldiers return, they are not being protected, and worse, the only place the journalists and the public can go to find out the accurate statistics on this became off-limits in 2005:

According to the GAO, the Pentagon's annual Status of Forces Surveys provide the only accurate account of the number of reservists experiencing reemployment difficulties. These surveys ask reservists about their service, job loss and whether they are receiving the legal protections -- occupational and otherwise -- guaranteed to them under federal law.

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