President Elect Barack Obama nominates retired 4-star general, Eric Shinseki, to head the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
From Bloomberg.com:
"Shinseki’s appointment won bipartisan praise from lawmakers, with Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama pledging his support and saying the former general was correct in his 2003 assessment.
“He’s a great soldier, he’s a great leader,” Shelby said today on the “Fox News Sunday” program. “We should have listened to him,” Shelby said. “We didn’t and look where we are today.”
Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan said on the Fox program that “it was wrong for the Bush administration to mistreat him the way they did.” Levin added that Obama’s choice of Shinseki shows that the president-elect “will welcome people who disagree with him to express those views to him.”
Obama announced Shinseki’s appointment on the 67th anniversary on the attack on Pearl Harbor. On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, leaving more than 2,400 servicemen dead. The surprise strike drew the U.S. into World War II."
From my point of view, our vets deserve everything we can give them - the best support in the field, and, especially, the best care upon return. Traumatic head injuries are particularly troubling.
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