Some Wisconsin veterans are expressing their hope for the new Donald Trump Administration in Washington, D.C.
Army Veteran Scott Griffith served in the Gulf War in the early 1990s. He is having a spinal cord treatment at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center, he said, and hopes the next United States president maintains the quality of health care for veterans.
“Without this facility, the Veterans Administration hospital and facilities like this, I wouldn’t be alive and many other veterans wouldn’t be alive,” Griffith said.
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Another Army veteran, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient Gary Wetzel, said if President-elect Trump doesn’t meet the needs of veterans and the public in general, there is a peaceful remedy.
“We vote with ballots and that’s kind of neat, and I tell people, too, that I’ve been in other countries where they vote with bullets, and the ballot system is better,” Wetzel said, before adding the next presidential election is only four years away.
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