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Meet Mike Williams—combat medic, musician, and living proof that Uncle Sam has a curious way of thanking his veterans: with red tape, broken promises, and a nice helping of financial ruin. Mike’s patched up soldiers on the battlefield only to watch them get bled dry back home. His song, The Price We Paid, lays it all bare—the debt, the despair, the kind of betrayal that makes you wonder if the enemy was uniquely overseas after all.
And speaking of betrayal, let’s talk about the reboot of the Veterans’ Administration. Agent Orange? Took ‘em 33 years to admit it was poisoning vets. Burn pits? They resisted that one for decades, too—until a comedian had to shame Congress into action. And now? The VA is getting gutted again, all in the name of “efficiency”. Because nothing says "support our troops" like firing them from the jobs that keep them alive, especially when they work at the VA. Is sarcasm the only route that touches the gravitas these days?
Mike, you’ve seen the battlefield from two angles—frontline medic and back-home survivor….
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