Abandoning Our Heroes Again

Here is an excellent report about how the US Navy has abandoned the personnel who were sickened by the nuclear accident at Fukushima, Japan:

http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/04/21/america-abandoning-bravest-heroes-yet/

They are not alone:

As often as not our government officials callously toss those heroes aside. The list is long and dates from the Bonus Army of jobless World War I veterans attacked in 1932 by the Washington, DC, police [and the US Army] for demanding compensation for wartime service, to the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who suffered neglect and shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as recently as 2007. There are plenty of stops in between: The Vietnam vets never properly compensated for exposure to Agent Orange; Gulf War veterans who waited 17 years for Congress to acknowledge the reality of Gulf War Syndrome; and the 9/11 responders who waited eight years for whatever the budget cutters in Washington were willing, in their generosity, to dispense.

What the Navy did during and after the Fukushima accident was criminally negligent, and the people who made these decisions should be held accountable.

I'm personally sick of watching how Hollywood portrays the Navy and NCIS to be so wonderful, when the reality is quite different.