Vets may be sturdy animal medics that do unmentionable things like burying their arms up to the elbow up the rear ends of cows on prime time television on this side of the water, but over in the US of A, vets are veteran fighting men, returned soldiers, whose welfare is looked after by the Veterans Administration Don’t forget, hire the vet ran the advertising pitch beseeching employers to give jobs to boys back from ‘nam – and by all accounts, the VA looks after them very well: seems that its kindly computers in Washington have a tendency to go on paying their benefits long after they have no need of them – the VA computers send the cheques to the bank’s computer that holds the deceased’s account, and the cash is added to the departed vet’s estate, which can make the fading away of an old soldier a very long drawn out affair indeed – like 10 years in some instances.
