a woman stood up in the courtroom and began to scream about "EATING OUR CHILDREN FOR PROFIT."

[fed-up]

yes, this is a dupe from LBN-but I wanted the freedom to post a different thread title

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/24/BA3K10AIB1.DTL
Attorney leading suit a veteran in battling VA
C.W. Nevius
Thursday, April 24, 2008

..snip

Erspamer says another sailor, who was on the ship with his father in 1946, took the legal argument for his dad's case and wrote across the top of the page: "I have the same issues as Ernest Erspamer. The only difference is his son is a lawyer."

Erspamer says the appeal was returned with a single word - "denied."

It was stories like that that kept Erspamer, whose legal field is energy law, involved in veterans' causes. It has turned out to be an unexpectedly wrenching experience. At the trial on Tuesday, a woman stood up in the courtroom and began to scream about "eating our children for profit."

"I have not cried since my father died," he says, "but some of the stories we've heard (in the current case) brought tears to my eyes. That woman was clearly one of them - more in distress than angry."..

...

[Fridays Child]

1. I can't make any sense of the original headline.

I'm glad you re-posted the story with a different subject line. I never would have read it, otherwise.

[fed-up]

3. LBN rules state we must use original story title-I like the quote better-sounds like a DUer nt

[Wizard777]

2. Me too. The new title got my attention.

I agree with the woman. We are eating the children for profit. They will be saddled with our debt creating the current obscene profits.

[Jim__]

4. "... compare it to the total combat deaths, the veteran suicides are higher"

I had no idea:

"If you add up the veterans' suicides among those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and compare it to the total combat deaths, the veteran suicides are higher," says Erspamer, who introduced a VA e-mail at the trial that showed an average of 18 vets a day are committing suicide. "The VA doesn't want that out."

That is a tragic indictment of our government.