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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nA veteran found the above pictured cap in the Washington, DC Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington, DC. At first he thought it was pretty funny, but, like the rest of us who’ve been married several years, his wife convinced him that his initial reaction was wrong, according to the Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n \u201cMy first reaction was, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s pretty funny,\u2019 because I have a tendency to laugh at inappropriate things,\u201d McCuin, an Army Reserve officer, said in a telephone interview. \u201cMy wife, who has much less a sense of humor about these things, thought it was awful.\u201d<\/p>\n McCuin said that instead of purchasing the hat for his car\u2019s dashboard as a joke, he shot VA\u2019s social media department the photo he had taken, along with a tweet: \u201cNice message, guys,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n VA officials quickly responded with their own message. \u201cThis does nothing except perpetuate stereotypes. Unacceptable anywhere near a VA Medical Center.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Later that day, our buddy, Alex Horton, who manages the VA blog, Vantage Point had written a post about PTS and TBI entitled “The Stigmas Surrounding PTSD and TBI<\/a>” I suppose to atone for putting the hat in a VA hospital store.<\/p>\n I suspect that Janet Napolitano would like us all to wear those hats in public as a sort of warning label for the remainder of the public, but this is a real boner for the VA which should be doing it’s best to counter the negative stereotypes of veterans, not perpetuating the myths. yeah, if you have one of these hats, that’s fine, I just think it’s inappropriate for the VA to make a profit from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"