RESERVED FOR VETERANS

My husband and I are in a grocery store parking lot in Quebec City and close to the door there is a parking spot reserved for Canadian war veterans.  The Steady remarked, "wow, you don't see that in the states."  I added, "if we did have that the spot would be filled with homeless dudes."  

My dad has this friend who is a Vietnam veteran, who like my dad, was drafted.  The war really fucked him up.  The way my dad describes him, it sounds like he lives in squalor.  I don't think he can work, because he has a lot of physical health problems and every time the U.S. military shows the world its might, this man's mental health just tanks.