-I can't believe that you are implying that the Kurds deserved to be abandoned because they can't be trusted not to kill American soldiers who have trained and armed them. Military people have been publishing article after article saying that the Kurds were the most trustworthy partners that the U.S. has had for fighting terrorism.
-There are female soldiers; they're not all "boys" in "coffins."
-You have heard about the mass graves in Syria, haven't you?
There's no dignity in a mass grave. Thousands of people are never going to know what happened to their relatives, friends, spouses, colleagues, neighbors; they will have to assume that their loved ones are dead and never have closure.
-There are still a lot of homeless veterans.
-I don't know if you remember those couple of weeks when I was working in a cargo warehouse at Logan Airport. I wrote about it, but I don't know how many people read it. I was shocked that the large cooler, where they were supposed to keep things that needed to be refrigerated, was broken, had been broken since before I started working there, and remained broken for the two weeks that I worked there. Things that had labels saying "Keep refrigerated" were sitting out in the regular warehouse, because the warehouse counted on the weather being cold enough.
There were at least two bodies of soldiers that were dropped off and picked up at that warehouse while I was working there, so it's good that there were no delays in their transfers.
A box with a U.S. military body is wheeled through the warehouse in a cart that has curtains around it that are American flags. The flags for that warehouse's cart were tattered. It was sad.
Supposedly, everyone who works at the airport has to go through rigorous screening, and the people in the warehouses are supposed to guard the wide open doors that lead directly outside where anyone can get in. That's on one side of the warehouse. On the other side of the warehouse is the runway, with the planes. Between those two sides, obviously, are thousands of pieces of cargo, waiting to be put on planes to go all over the world or taken to various places in Massachusetts and other parts of the country.
You'd think that there would be a lot of vigilance at a major airport, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, no; you have a lot of temps sitting in the fork lifts and looking at their cell phones.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same throughout the country.
I was the only woman working in the warehouse, which probably would have been an issue even if it weren't for all the Google search results for my name that call me schizophrenic and all of the other things that eventually always doom my employment.
