The mother of an injured Iraq war veteran has decided to sell a 2009 letter from Barack Obama, which promised to provide help for her son, in order to pay for his medical expenses that the VA has refused to address.
Cherry McKimmey told Secrets, “Something good might as well come out of that. It is doing no good lying in my drawer. It means absolutely nothing to me.”
She received the note from Obama in July 2009 after a non-stop effort to beg federal officials to help her son, David McKimmey.
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But McKimmey said while the letter was a nice touch, nothing was done to help her son, who is the single father of three young children, one just six months old. He is living on disability benefits.
She and her husband are providing some financial help, but David needs more, said his mom. McKimmey said she saw that another Obama letter was auctioned, so she turned to Maryland-based Alexander Historical Auctions for help.
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The veteran’s mother, who lives near her son in Torrington, Wyo., said he needs help with his medical issues, long rides to physical therapy with a totally destroyed ankle, and raising his young family.
“It’s for David,” she said of selling the Obama letter. “He’s an awesome, awesome kid.”
Now years after receiving Obama’s letter, McKimmey believes that the president was just trying to placate the family. “We just assumed everything would be taken care of,” she said in a telephone interview. “We should have known better.”
Source: Washington Exwminer
Obama’s handling of veterans’ affairs is historically awful. This is only the latest case of the kind of disillusionment faced by returning veterans across the country. If this government wants to conduct military actions anywhere, it must first ensure that the men and women who participate in those maneuvers are guaranteed the security of their welfare upon their return to civilian life. Shame on Obama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrEOFeZIjc
I’m surprised she even got anything for it, it must have been a liberal that bought it!
I’m surprised you did not have to pay someone to take it.
Our soldiers know exactly how he feels about them.
This is sad and it makes me angry. I am so sick of veterans getting the shaft.
bias gossip mongers
She sold it because they didn’t help her son I thought. She was mad.
The letter ovomit wrote when he was a kid in Kenya ?