Veterans and Military Families
We have a moral obligation to honor our troops and veterans by ensuring that they and their families receive the care and benefits that we as a grateful nation owe them and that they deserve, both during service and at home.
Our troops and military families have made extraordinary commitments and enormous sacrifices to defend our country. Jim Himes thinks it is an abomination that the Bush Administration has sent troops into battle without sufficient armor. No family should have to spend its own resources to provide their sons and daughters with the basic safety supplies that our military should provide them. Jim also understands that military families are being devastated by our soldiers’ serving record tours, and it is morally reprehensible that the Bush Administration has failed to support the spouses and children of our servicemembers.
President Bush has consistently failed to support our troops who return home. Letting down our veterans may be the most shameful legacy of those like Bush, Cheney, and Shays who sent our troops so recklessly into a poorly-planned war. Jim will fight for full funding of the Veteran’s Administration budget so that every qualified veteran will have access to quality medical care, including mental health and rehabilitation care, for life. We must do a better job of re-integrating combat veterans into the community when they return from battle, including providing access to housing and developing programs to assist with obtaining civilian employment. In Congress Jim will work to implement and fully fund comprehensive screenings for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, depression, and other illnesses for all veterans who return from battle.
