The WORST form of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) I have heard of in a long, Long, LONG time.
"Neighbors worry about home intended for homeless veterans"
Ungrateful SOB's.Long story short. An organization called Carpenter's Place purchased a home in Rockford, IL, did a little bit of work inside to fix it up, and are going to move 3 homeless Veteran's into the home-sort of a half-way house.
And the neighbors are ticked. They weren't consulted before the home was purchased.
I will partly blame the media for this. The biggest concern cited in the article is they are worried that someone will "go off the deep end." The media has done so little to report any of the good things that our soldiers do and their success in returning home and focus only on the things that negative. And then the neighbors who don't have a clue and think that since their new neighbors are Veterans, they are obviously going to go crazy or suffer some strange mental disease.
But even with the disgusting media bias in this country, it is a really pisspoor excuse to insult our Veterans. Those "neighbors" represent the worst of this country. Be ashamed of yourselves.
And to Carpenter's Place, we respect our Veterans down here.
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1 comment:
Red says:
These people have watched to many movies. The soldiers don't come back and start rampage shooting. You might see a veteran drop to the floor when they hear a sudden loud noise. Wil's uncle used to have bad dreams that he would wakeup yelling from. When Max was home he never showed any signs of post war. Granted I was still careful on how I would wake him from his sleep. The veterans need our support and it's great that we have people that donate time & money to help them resume normal lives back in the U.S.
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