If people wanted to know how the government is supporting the troops, they should have looked at Newsweek for the week of March 5. The cover picture was of a young American female soldier with both her legs missing.

If people really want to support the troops, they should raise hell over the way wounded soldiers are being treated. And then question why President Bush keeps cutting the Veterans Administration budget, and ask why it has taken five years for our concerned government to find out that care of wounded soldiers is so poor, that private citizens had to raise the money to build a rehabilitation center in San Antonio, Texas – something our government should have done a long time ago. People could also seek to find out why some wounded soldiers have been waiting two years for a primary doctor.

Do you think this is something new? No way. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I have had a claim filed for many years, but officials can’t find my records. So I did what I was told would work: I wrote my representatives in Congress. I wrote to Sen. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins, and Rep. Mike Michaud. I got back three form letters.

Some support.

I wonder what response I would have gotten if I, or anyone mentioned in the magazine, were relatives of our representatives?

Dick Rosenberg, Lewiston