Desperate vet pawns his Purple Heart
Beneath discarded DVD players and antiquated bass guitars sits in a peculiar item at in a Holland, Michigan pawn shop. An Afghanistan War veteran walked into the A-Z Outlet last month, handed the proprietor his Purple Heart and left with cash.
Bryan VandenBosch, owner of the East Michigan consignment shop, says the man had the same story that every other client comes in with. “He was short on funds,” he tells the Holland Sentinel.
The soldier, who has not been identified, came into VandenBosch’s shop just shy of Thanksgiving this year in need of some holiday cash..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/purple-heart-veteran-sentinel-465/
2 comments:
ok. naiintindihan na namin kung bakit kinatay ng pamahalaan ninyo, kasabwat ang co.tantads na nato, ang libya.
"“They are coming home to a disproportionate rate of homelessness, of foreclosures and evictions. In 2010 a whopping 75,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United States were homeless; were sleeping on the streets,” Iraq war veteran Michael Prysner tells RT. “They are coming home to an unemployment rate of about 30 percent for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. This is triple the national average.”"
Wounded Personnel Medal is equivalent to one case of beer only.
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