Troops and their families have been pushed back to the United States after their bases in the Middle East were threatened by Iranian counterattacks. Community groups are scrambling to react.
I saw one gal — she had a 2-week-old and a 2-year-old and a dog in a crate and a suitcase. So she was just at the moment, you know, looking to get out of danger, get to someplace safe. And now we’re at the point where families are back and they’re starting to ask the question: ‘Well, what’s next? Will we go back?’
Or how about not taking your infant and toddler to live at a base designed to enable power projection for military incursions and strikes?
Instead of being bombed and killed, like you or your spouses are doing or assisting in doing to the children in Iran, you’re being given:
a spaghetti dinner
crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,
$1 million to roughly 2,000 sailors and their families
reimburse[ment] for living in hotel rooms
Am I supposed to feel bad for the invaders’ families not being able to live peacefully with cars and pets and houses a stone’s throw from the place they’re invading?