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The Department of Veterans Affairs is getting flack for one of its hospitals removing all its military flags in favor of flying an LGBT pride flag in an effort to maintain the appearance of being inclusive without truly being inclusive of the disabled veterans the agency is supposed to serve.

When asked for comment, a VA public affairs officer said the agency wanted to put up a rainbow flag to honor LGBT veterans. VA planned to remove the flag by the end of the day and to replace it with the military flags, but someone else had a different idea. How is that for inclusion?

Most believe agency needs to be inclusive of veterans and mindful of what their mission is related to those they are supposed to serve. As we are committed to serving all Veterans and June is LGBT awareness month, we are flying the flag that represents and honors these Veterans as a display of solidarity and respect for their service.

Rather than take one flag down temporarily, it was determined to lower all the flags so as to be equal. The one flag will fly for the day until 5 p. We know the agency still struggles to address racism in its ranks. Veterans suffering from military sexual trauma still face daily battles in securing benefits and quality mental health care.

Many in the LGBT community are going without the benefits they deserve just like every other veteran suffering from the long-term effects of war. Benjamin Krause is an award winning veterans rights advocate, attorney, and investigative reporter fighting to advance the rights of veterans for more than a decade.

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email PrintImagine surviving war, coming home broken but alive — and then being told your benefits…. The last I checked — gay pride is not a military service and this does not represent solidarity. The military service flags are flown to represent in solidarity all members of each military service, gay and straight alike.

What they are doing is giving special representation to a particular segment of each service. Being GayTranssexual or Lesbian is a mental condition unfit for military service. My wife and I will not be involved in this. You can just go joyously on your way without our funding.

Gay, straight, male, female our veterans were all members of the military and to purposely supplant their military service flags to honor only those veterans who are homosexuals, instead of all veterans regardless of their sexual preference, I consider an extremely thoughtless insult to every current and former of the military.

Ok so they flay the rainbow flag, will they fly a Christian flag or a Muslim flag or a Irish or name your flag up for a day? If they want to fly other flag than a military flag then they need to fly lots of them. Retired AF Chief — Thank you for your sensible comment!

Whoever authorized this should be fired.

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What a disgusting display. The director of the VA in Fort Wayne should be fired. A clear violation of the flag code at FT Wayne. June 14 is to commemorate one flag, our flag, the American flag. I am offended by the Ft. Wayne VA hospital for removing all of our branches of service.

It pretty much discrace to all branches of service and a big slap in the face. I hope that President Trump fires the head of the hospital for doing something stupid like that. It is amazing to me that at near sundown in most of our United States, not one of us posting, including myself, gave a mention of today being Flag Day.

James, Thank you for posting the Flag Code.