ch: Do This!

Do This: Demand Action on Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment

This is unbelievable. The problem:

Possible cuts in funding for research into treatment of traumatic brain injuries are drawing sharp criticism from Veterans of Foreign Wars, the largest organization of combat veterans.

Jim Mueller, the VFW’s commander in chief, said a proposal before Congress for a 50 percent cut in funding “clearly indicates that the Congress is out of touch with the realities and consequences of war.”

“For our nation’s lawmakers to deny advanced research that our military has earned with their blood, and for those same lawmakers to espouse patriotism and ‘Support the Troops’ rhetoric from the podium this election year, is shameful, hypocritical, and ignorant,” he said. “This research center is an investment in the future potential of traumatically disabled soldiers. It is not an expense.”

You can read more about the cuts in an article earlier this month in USA Today.

What you can do:

Call your Congressman. Demand the cuts be restored.

Sign Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America’s petition.