Comments on: Lack of Healthcare Kills Veterans at Much Higher Rate than Combat

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:32 +0000

On thing I noticed about VA types such as Richard V. There attacks against members here who are trying to do the hard work of informing veterans. Types like Richard come in and make accusatons without giving any supporting evidence to support there claims against us. I notice they cowardly run as soon as someone stands up. Richard.
WHERE ARE YOU?

Terry

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:43:03 +0000

Dear Robert.

I have seen your type on other veterans web sites. If there is someone speaking the truth about the VA corrupton. You guys will shout, insult, even threaten those you disagree with, and in the mean time the owners will see a jamming and kramming of VA types like yourself trying to bring doown there website until the voices who disagree with the VA are silence.

Fourtantly for a strong board here. You guys cant get rid of folks like myself or tha above which; you describe as a rant.

Im surprised I have not seen more of the VA type here, but with no hope of chaseing others out or booting them. This site does not offfer to much prospects to you guys. I love free speach.

Terry

By: Alton

Alton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:56:45 +0000

OK, I hear that for every serviceman that dies in Combat, 14 die because they didn’t have health care. So how many are denied care, lets say two, three or four times? Myself I’ve lost count. Every time I go, I tell them what is wrong and they lie to me about the severity of it, hint: Crutches ARE ‘jury struts’, Cord Impingement IS Cord involvement, if my doctor will not release me to go back to work, that is bed rest and a doctor’s shorthand F.R.O.M. means Full Range Of Motion, not Limitation of Motion. I could go on, “your depression from not getting proper care for your broken back is not really ‘depression’ it’s alcohol dependence. But we don’t have a slot in the treatment center for you. Anyway we’re having a party in about an hour so you are released”, but yeah, you get the picture. How about the Government changes that? The VA doesn’t care to.

By: Frank Bugyi

Frank Bugyi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:14:37 +0000

I agree we need to do more for our vets who served our country.
I am reading a book titled, VETS UNDER SEIGE, by MARTIN SCHRIM How america
deceives and dishnors those who fight our battles. In the book
it tells of vets that have PTSD and how the VA makes it very difficult
for them to get disibality compinsation for their problem.
A former Korean War Vet.

By: Robert Y

Robert Y — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:02:49 +0000

SILENCE IS WHAT KILLS VETERANS
READ THIS AND TELL ME WHY

The above and after is another rant that you used on another post. Is that all you have to do is post the same words on damning the VA? Should I have used the same post words on my answer to your other post? Don’t think so. By the way, I sent my last post and your post to a lot of disabled vets for their opinion on your posting. 100% of them felt you are being a bitter man, and are making things worse for the vets. You are a Vet, so did you ever serve in combat and know what the real facts are. If so you have missed the boat back to the VA system. Did the VA do you wrong and you are ticked at the whole system? Let us know what your problem is. I will have to look around at the other post and I bet if you posted you used the copy and paste again. You must have been one bad dude of a Sgt. in the Marines. Hated by all the troops? BOB

By: Pmacdonald

Pmacdonald — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:04:03 +0000

SILENCE IS WHAT KILLS VETERANS
READ THIS AND TELL ME WHY
A-1 Reading list keeps growing 10-15-09
Peter Macdonald 465 Packers falls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
The reading list of people wanting to read my letters is just getting out of control. Many are veterans or relatives of veterans being shortchanged by the Veterans Administration. They write to tell me that they appreciate what I am doing (writing and exposing wrongs) or ask my help or suggestion on what they should do. The system is wrong and the newspapers censoring my opinion are wrong causing many people hardship. The editors claim that they are a private business so they do not have to print letters that they believe are libelous. My letters are published in so many blogs, forums and mailed directly to newspapers, government officials and judges that the libel question is moot. The truth stands on it’s own. Everything that I put in my letters can be documented in court and government files. No one has been able or willing to go this far to correct the wrongs so the system has out grown its checks and balances. The government was designed to protect the people’s guaranteed rights not control them.
Veterans Administration and elected officials have with intent to cause harm committed crimes to stop me. It is not I that matters. It is the other Veterans and citizens life that matters to me. I am a dead U.S. Marine that came back to a place that I do not belong. The pain in my head and body must stop. How can anyone let Government officials use a disabled Veterans medical care to stop the veteran’s opinion of wrongs in government? How can the ethics of newspaper stoop so low as to allow veterans to be censored in the belief libel questions that do not exist come first? The Veteran’s Today web site publishes my letters, which are read by more people than you can count. Elected officials, VA officials and many more understand the wrongs being committed here but as in the Army Major at Fort Hood no one wants to speak up for fear of losing their cozy job. Veterans suffering from combat related mental and physical disabilities are neglected and cast aside until prison awaits them for a crime silence and ignorance by you caused. I tell you that it is like singing into the wind can cause the frustration. What causes PTSD and can we control it if we do not treat it. Can PTSD be the memory that will not go away or the memory lost from the Traumatic Brain injury? How can we put U.S. Military Veterans in prison for crimes that we the people created in their heads by sending them off to war? Homeless Veterans make up 25% of the homeless in the U.S. and no one cares. The people calling writing or meet to just speak with some one that cares can be overwhelming.
My letters are read and understood but no one is willing to make them public so the harm to Veterans continues with out care. “What are we fighting for next stop is Vietnam”. I am slipping away from where we are so I must go to get this letter off before I re-enter the world that I belong.
I ask everyone to ask why no one will speak to a 100% disabled veteran about wrongs being committed against you the United States citizens?? Some one has to expose me for what I am and stop me from continuing. I just do not know!
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi