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Nice GIs Finish Last
By "Alfonso Grimm"
Someplace towards the back of my closet rests a robe with the imprint "M.D.U.S.A." Some might recognize the acronym "Medical Department, U.S. Army." But to many GIs, it translated "Many Die—U Shall Also."
It has been half a century plus since the "robe" was issued to me at the hotel Walter Reed, also known as the U.S. Army General Hospital—home of the walking wounded and the not-walking wounded of WWII.
And so today I take this faded remnant of WWII and say to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I, but I did not go."
I'm here today and tomorrow, one of the invincibles who the V.A. wishes would just cash in and go West to help reduce the national debt.
For old soldiers never die—they just cost the taxpayers too much. And so nice GIs finish last.
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