It's one thing when the major airlines gouge us in charges for water, headphones, pillows, blankets, space for a second bag, and even a fee for the actual ticket. They make us pay for what we used to get for free. It's quite another thing when they impose costs extraneous to the ticket on soldiers going to fight, and perhaps die, in Iraq. The greed upsets me as much as the bureaucratic sclerosis that makes getting reimbursements out of the military as likely as squeezing orange juice out of a rock.

Whatever happened to common sense? Did the VFW really have to be involved here?