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Not supporting the troops

I served as an Army captain in the Medical Service Corps from 1968-1974.

The reader boards on city buses, “Support the Troops,” belies the street-level truth in Spokane County.

I am on Medicare and Social Security as my primary income and health care.

I am 76 and have serious cardiac disease requiring six daily medications.

The mail delivery of my absolutely necessary medicine and my monthly Social Security is at risk.

All seniors — not just veterans — are at risk with Trump’s blatant extra-constitutional postal service meddling.

CMR Is complicit, quiet and responsible for this. She is the statewide campaign manager for Trump.

Change is gonna come.

John A. Olsen

Spokane

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