Comments on: President Obama: Fixing VA and Providing More Help for Veterans with PTSD

By: Luigi V. Micheli

Luigi V. Micheli — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:58:32 +0000

Sorry I misspelled President wrong !!!

By: Luigi V. Micheli

Luigi V. Micheli — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:54:26 +0000

Many thanks to all !! Thanks to you Michael Leon your a true friend of all the veterans !! Many thanks to Congressman John Hall of New York. I hope this is all true here what the presidnet said. God bless all who have helped in this just cause. I know my prayers have been answered. God bless us all.

Vietnam Combat Veteran
Tet Offensive 1968 1969

” IN GOD WE TRUST “

By: Noor al Haqiqa

Noor al Haqiqa — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:53:32 +0000

This is the first thing I have heard come out of his mouth that has sounded as if he means it. I hope and pray that this means help is available for all for this horrific and expensive condition. So many people end up paying for the wars of the bankers’ and other financial conglomerates.

Where will the cash come from?

It is time this and other “hidden” conditions be faced. Acknowledgment is, however, a big step coming from this office.

By: Richard A Locklear

Richard A Locklear — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:39:43 +0000

WHAT ABOUT THE BLUE WATER VET’S WITH AGENT ORANGE?

By: jesse rios

jesse rios — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:06:25 +0000

me jesse again e-mail jcrickett55@yahoo.com when tire exploded we were getting ready to drive to fort chaffy ark with the new arrivel from viet nam. 1974 i still finish my tour of duty even being sick due to injury. i hope that pres obama would see how vet are treated at va clinic i was told at a va clinic in corpus christi tx not to be coming out there and be looking for hand out i was trying toget help for my injurts only for many years i have been treated so bad sad i hope i can get help after 34 year when i filed for ptsd it was not know as ptsd back then. but still i file back then and the medical report from my doctor when i ets said compinsation related but no help or money for injury 34 years looking for help i hope they will follow this new law i am tire sick and i have not given up yet . if god wants i give them 34 more years

By: jesse rios

jesse rios — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:42:39 +0000

1974 i have a split ring 2 1/2 ton truck blew up i was not fixing it during station at fort hood motor pool it crack my skull an d mess up my neck . i ets 1976 3 1/2 years in th earmy . i file for help 1976 for post traumatic syndrome and it has no effect in helping me i have been fighting this for 34 -35 years . i was told be a medical benift doctor i had ptsd @ tbi but still no help the regional office of houston has denid m y case year after year need help 361 455 9271 phone

By: jake

jake — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:27:59 +0000

FINALLY!!! Someone took the initiative to do what was right. I would venture to say the majority of the push was from Veterans Groups that carry a lot of VOTES. Regardless of where the push came from, a RIGHT and JUST decision was made after way to many years of not wanting to deal with the facts. May God bless those who worked so hard for this victory and May God Always bless the Veteran.
Gary Moreland
Vietnam Vet

By: Michael Leon

Michael Leon — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:16:03 +0000

Hear that.

I don’t write about PTSD to cheerlead the president.

Screwing veterans has been a bipartisan exercise the last 45 years.

But this is indeed a long-overdue step against the Sally Satel, neocon swine who could not care less if veterans live in the streets.

So, I salute President Obama on this one. He has changed the direction of the DVA and VBA, giving veterans’ advocates like Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense a seat at the policy-making table.

As for Satel and your service-is-over-get-past-it crowd at the VA: They can go … themselves.

By: Lem G.

Lem G. — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:06:44 +0000

So long as the process doesn’t end up adding insult to the mental injuries endemic with service in a combat zone, I laud this recognition of the need to expand and improve mental health programs and disability procedures for PTSD and TBI
by our CIC.