Today Is Veteran's Day

We cannot say happy, so we will say "thoughtful Veteran's Day" to us all or "peaceful Veteran's Day".
The President's speech to our nation was thought inspiring yesterday.  It made me stop to think about
how a grateful nation should put a bit of Veteran's Day in all its days for a moment or two, somehow,
each day. We have so many vets now.
These wars don't start and end anymore. They ebb and flow. They ember, then inflame.
The suicide rate for vets reached a daily tally with these last wars. Someone needs to do a study on how unresponsive systems thought to be handling rape crimes are impacting our veteran suicide
rates.
A female soldier (and we have a great number of them) has surely not been trained to give up her
whole physical and mental self at someones whim, when she has already committed to do it willingly
for her country.
While irresponsible people sit self-righteously conjuring up adjectives for rape, as they sip whatever
on breaks in warm, well-lit rooms made safe for them by the blood of sacrifice, a soldier is somewhere being told she has to die many times before her life is over.
Now how is anyone supposed to live that down? Live down death and a plethora of betrayals?
Perhaps some of the  perpetrators succumb to the effects of having become so much less than they need to be as well.
We need to step up on this. Perhaps having so many women in the Senate now will engender more
help. But it should not take that. Mostly men have sent women into war.