Media used wrong headline on Rolling Thunder visit

Muller on Saturday said he planned to tell Bush that many veterans have been wrongly classified as having a personality disorder, when they should be getting higher compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder.

“We feel that this is just saving the government some money because there are over 28,000 troops that they’re not paying disability benefits for,” he said.

Rolling Thunder asks Bush to become a member

By Christine Simmons - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday May 27, 2008 6:51:19 EDT

WASHINGTON — Members of the Rolling Thunder motorcycling group roared into town for a White House visit Sunday, where they presented President Bush with his own cowhide vest jacket and pushed for increased veterans benefits.

“Mr. President, we’d like to make you an honorary member of Rolling Thunder,” said Artie Muller, the group’s executive director, to a delighted Bush, who shed his suit jacket to don the vest and pose for pictures.

“You’ve done a lot for the country, and the troops appreciate you, and the veterans appreciate you, and your president appreciates you,” Bush told the group.
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While the president of Rolling Thunder did ask Bust to become a member, this is not the headline that should have been used. It should have been the message Muller gave to address the discharges of the men and women who served this nation under personality disorder instead of PTSD. This was the most important aspect of what was said.

Has the media even bothered to ask about what happens to the troops who were misdiagnosed? Do they even care? Have they asked a single politician what the plans are for any of them? For the homes they lost, the rents they couldn't pay, the families that fell apart or the lives lost over any of this?