Andy, you are right on as usual. It's time we all stop bitching about who took advantage of our forebears. It doesn't matter anymore folks. The Congress wants to spend more tax money making reparations for slavery. Are they out of their collective minds (short answer is yes)? That would have been a great idea about 150 years ago but very few people alive now either caused it or suffered from it. If I didn't cause it why should I pay for it? So some idiot in Congress can feel good about themselves or buy a few more votes? Even the Germans didn't have to pay for the misdeeds of the Kaiser or the Fuehrer!!
Oh well, Andy can I have some of your meds? Please?
Yes, why not offer proper medical/psychological services with dignity for injured vets and others who have sacrificed themselves for the objectives of government, whether they agreed with them or not? Making reparations to present generations for past generations' sufferings makes no sense. If the U.S. really wants to make amends with an ethnic group start with the Native Americans. Let's see, we took their land, gave them disease, killed their women and children, and raped their country.
But, too little too late. Make amends with those who've suffered--not their great great grandchildren.