Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Boca Chica  It took a few moments when I first read this headline to realize that it involved me Personal Data on Veterans Is Stolen. Being the most minor of cogs in the machinery of the American nation I am more used to the daily news not pertaining to me. Except for the occasional article describing the slipping purchasing power of the lower middle class.  Something along the lines of "the great unwashed - even un-cleaner and more pathetic than before..." But even unconsciously willed I began to push that 26 million veterans figure through the primitive tabulations and manipulations the competency of which I possess. This returned the notion that, as big as the US Military is, this places the early point of this list back about 25 years.  This was confirmed about four paragraphs in  "...affected veterans include anyone discharged after 1975 and some of their spouses..."  I especially like the part where the head of the VA claims his bureaucracy didn't even tell him for two weeks Department to Investigate Theft of Veterans' Data - New York Times : "The head of the Veterans Affairs Department expressed outrage today over being kept in the dark about the theft of computer data on 26.5 million veterans, as he himself came under heavy criticism from Capitol Hill." 11:43:39 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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