Here’s the latest attempt by the IT gurus to shake something out. Nothing happened. Frankly the boys are stumped over at 810 Vermont Ave. NW. To add insult to injury, Vermont tried to get D.C. to change the street name VA is on. No dice. Vermont is reputedly actively exploring new names for their state.
And you thought Camp Lejeune was it? Read this, Kimosabe.
Ever since I found out about what AO did, it never ceases to amaze me that the Government would attempt to stuff this one in the back of the closet. The fact that VSOs did this for years with the AO stuff reflects a symbiosis that is far too cozy.
When I finally figured out the correlation between jetguns and HCV, I quickly started research to find the articles by the VA or the government proving the link.
Searching VSO websites I still find nothing on this subject. Robert O’Dowd published this 11/1/2010 and still nothing? Ruh-oh Rorge. Deja AO all over again.
Member Cal sends us this priceless piece of American aplomb. Often, when our great country is ostracized by lofty “enlightened” European thinkers, it is usually a Veteran who best offers the most poignant and sarcastic answer. The recent propensity of our elected officials to denigrate America and its accomplishments/intentions and to apologize for prior behaviour disgusts me- not just as an American but as a Veteran. I think every one of you who read this will see the delicious irony in the rejoinders offered by Americans proud of their heritage and secure in the knowledge of their place in history.
President John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when President DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US
military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded, “Does that include those who are buried here?”
DeGaulle did not respond.
You could have heard a pin drop.
When in England , at a fairly large conference, General Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ’empire building’ by George Bush. The Archbishop, for those unaware, is the equivalent of the English Pope. Britain, as we all know, was one of the most ambitious “empire builders” of the late nineteenth and early early twentieth century. Perhaps the Archbishop needs to brush up on his history.
Powell answered by saying, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”
You could have heard a pin drop.
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers
were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?”
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three
hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are
nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to
shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to
feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a
dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and
from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; pray tell, how many ships of this calibre does France have?”
You could have heard a pin drop.
A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French
Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, “Why is it that
we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?”
Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, “Maybe it’s because the
Brit’s, Canadians, Aussie’s and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.”
You could have heard a pin drop.
Robert Whiting,an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
“You have been to France before, monsieur?” the customs officer asked
sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
“Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.”
The American said, “The last time I was here, I didn’t have to show it.”
“Impossible… Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !”
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long withering look. Then he
quietly explained, ”Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in
1944 to help liberate your country, I couldn’t find a single Frenchmen
to show a passport to.”
You could have heard a pin drop.
Veterans, for the most part, are a breed apart. They readily volunteer where others are disinclined to. They are more prone to open their hearts and wallets to total strangers in need. And it is the Veteran, more often than not, who is inclined to give someone a piece of their mind when the subject of America’s good intentions are called into question.
I can’t tell you how many we lost in Laos during the Great Vietnam Boundary Dispute in the Sixties and Seventies. The casualty rate for both servicemen and Air America personnel was generally in excess of 35 percent. Many a Veteran’s memorial who fell there bears the inscription of KIA-BNR. For those of you unacquainted with the second acronym, it stands for Body Never Recovered. Sometimes we are not even accorded the measure of a proper burial. Never apologize. Never feel embarrassment. America has always been above reproach. Let’s hope our leaders embrace that philosophy again some day.
People post the darnedest things on my page. This being one.
Lord, do not let me grow too old.
Bob the Leagle Beagle (and member Emeritus) sends us this interesting tidbit with the rejoinder
The meat of the email is thus. A fellow who has not filed anything is now being pestered by the vA who will attempt to increase his rating to TDIU sometime in the not too distant future (2015?)
From:
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 4:56 PM
To: Colonel Dan
Subject: VA reviewing Unemployabality (IU) Veterans Case files
VA reviewing Unemployabality (IU) Veterans Case files
08/24/12 17:46:20
Now here is a new trick.
I’m sure most of you have heard something about the VA might be going to reopen and review our Unemployability claims.
Well here it is. Got this letter the other day. I have not filed a new claim.
I called the number below and they gave me the time that they would call me back for a conference call.
next day the call right on scedule, they said that my name was drawn for the review of Unemployability.
I told him that my award said no further reviews, answer: we are reviewing Unemployability claims.
I ask him about the new claim I was supposed to have filed.
He said again my name was drawn. Would say nothing about the new claim that I did not file. Bullshxt Bullshxt! WHATS NEXT??????
LETTER:
Editor’s note:
I have one thing to add. Has anyone from the vA gone outside their RO and tried Dial-a-Prayer recently? You’ll be lucky if you only get gray hair waiting for a live operator. I’ve heard cases of extreme tinnitus ensuing from listening to the music while waiting for several days. Another disease on the rise in homes only equipt with the old-fashioned land line is Anorexia. This ensues when you are forced to wait and fear missing the operator. If the cord is not long enough to reach the refrigerator, starvation can occur. Depends® undergarments are a must before dialing. I strongly suggest starting on Monday Morning early to avoid a long weekend wait. Cel phones with a battery from hell are the preferred alternative. If you call frequently, be sure to put in a claim for SMC-S housebound as well. That’s where you probably will be spending all your time when calling them.
Member Shawn of Michigan fame sends us what is unarguably a wonderful concept stolen from the Dristan/Afrin® people. I don’t mean to imply Shawn purloined it but that the idea of nasal ingestion of drugs seems faster than the oral/stomach route. Gee, didn’t we learn this in the 80’s in Disco 101 with cocaine? Sorry. My mind wanders. It may be a wonderful idea whose time has finally come. Expect to see it on VAMC pharmacy shelves early in 2021. That is, if they can afford it after all those expensive training sessions in Orlando.
Every time we read about CUE, we are led to understand that it hardly ever happens. If it did, then it was an aberration and one that any rater might have made given the circumstances. In short, it’s so rare that it need not be discussed. If it has to be dissected, it can be summed up as one of those things that happens and is terribly unfortunate. The idea that two would surface on this site in less than a year is a fluke. That they would both originate in Texas, albeit at separate ROs, is even more remarkable. Scratch that. Remarkable is too tame a word to employ here. WGM’s CUE was one of those Idiot’s Delight ones. Rater smokes too much left-handed tobacco and lets M-21 tell him what to do. Wyn Wn’s here is a horse of a different color. What is never proffered is interest on the screwup or even an apology. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a letter saying
Dear Ms. Wyn Wn,
After carefully reading your Motion for Revision, we decided to revisit your 1979 denial. We owe you an apology of the highest magnitude, Not only did we step on our collective necktie, we did a major faceplant on the other items as well. Please accept our heartfelt mea culpas on this. Due to the long overdue compensation owed, we have taken the unheard of step of trying to make it right by remunerating you for your wait with an extraordinary award compounded by interest. We feel it would be more appropriate now that thirty three years have passed without proper recompense. Nothing can repay our poor rating skills and years of financial destitution but we hope this check will ameliorate somewhat an unfortunate mistake on our part. If you feel this is too paltry, contact us and we will sit down with you and see what else we can do to make you happy. Since it was our error, we feel it is our duty to make amends.
Clyde Clodiddlehopper
Veterans Service Center Manager
Ain’t gonna happen. When Ms. Wyn finally got around to complaining about this in 2009, she had to see a dentist to have her front teeth restored. After several more visits (to the dentist) following repeated filings with our Protector, she started to see the cracks appear in the façade. What she didn’t receive was so much as an off hand apology. You will notice the usual approach-0% from 1979. No ” Please send us any medical records supporting a higher compensation (which she did) so we can more easily facilitate this request.” Nope. More dental rearrangement.
When she saw fit to point out the mistake, a year later our dear vA sent her a new missive:
Once again, they gave her the ice cream cone but failed to insert the ice cream. Most of us might begin to suspect they were toying with us. Imagine being discharged from the Navy for medical reasons and then having the vA say it pre-existed service. After re-submitting the same medical records showing discharge for these self-same deficiencies, try to conceive of having vA say “Okay. You’re probably right but it wasn’t that debilitating. Uh. Okay it was pretty bad but it didn’t warrant compensation until just now when you asked for it. Right?” What kind of crack pipe have they attached their lips to in order to provoke this? Wyn Wn wasn’t going to buy into it and decided to start reading up on how all this works. Her efforts began to have remarkable results about the time she found Part 4 of 38 CFR. The more she discovered, the more the vA backpeddled. They knew they weren’t going to get away with the smoke and mirrors anymore. Finally this March, the house of cards collapsed uncerimoniously. 
It appears as though them fellers down at the Honorable David Koresh Regional Office in Whacko finally got out the C-file and actually read it. Unfortunately, they still couldn’t bring themselves to grant a whopping settlement a la Leroy MacKlem. That simply wouldn’t do because there is no Extraordinary Awards Program to curtail the amount anymore. They were forced to do this the old fashioned way. I speak of the “delay, deny, until we die” method whereby you attempt to pull teeth out of a live alligator. Incremental rating compensation spread out over a decade or two is the preferred order of events for them. In the event you’re faking all this, it gives them ample time to discover as much. Or, another lovely old fashioned method one rarely sees from antique 1979 CUE rating errors:
Oops. Back to the dentist to replace those pesky teeth. Which finally brings us to August of 2012. Poor Wyn Wn was beginning to get the whirlies. She won… or did she? She succeeded in finally getting her partial due all the way back to 1979 but it amounted to nothing. To add insult to the injury, she must repay the $6255.00 until December 2014 before she’s entitled to a dime in compensation. About this time she found us. I’ve been working with her to fine tune a NOD that addresses all the things she should be getting that vA will never inform her she’s entitled to.
The reader will notice vA volunteers nothing about pain and its attendant ratings as if she were out jogging the Waco to Houston 375 km. VARO Fun Run Invitational. She has a long intriguing battle ahead of her. Fortunately, I took a few kilometres off the trip by showing her what they are (and aren’t) addressing in the ratings.
This is a classic example of a Veteran fighting long and hard, in this case with the much-vaunted Texas Veterans Commission (as WGM did), only to find the vA has another subtle agenda afoot. It is artfully created so as to appear innocuous. “You won. Here’s what you get. Go home.” Considering they are so nonadversarial and Veteran-friendly, I am appalled to see her get this treatment. Or am I?
CUE is supposed to be so rare as to be akin to a UFO sighting. In Texas it seems this is par for the course. What’s next? Will they throw out her secondary for bad cervical pain due to alien abduction rather than her knees? Wyn Wn promises to keep us abreast of developments as they happen. This will eventually end in a P&T or a TDIU. The burning question is how soon? Read my book and learn how to accomplish it sooner!
What CUE, Ms. Wyn? I don’t see any CUE. Who told you there was CUE? Do you know what CUE means? Were you raised by Aliens?
It may be that the TVC has outlived its usefulness for Wyn Wn. She’s light years ahead of most service reps and now has a new, time-consuming vocation. I expect she’ll have her own book out soon called The Care and Feeding of Your vA Claim.
I know you’ve heard me rail about VSOs and how I feel they are a fifth wheel in the claim. I do know some who have helped but that is postscripted by the Veteran holding the halter.
Here is a post from the vault of Rick Townsend’s Firebase radio program on Stardust Radio. I respect what he does because he doesn’t drink the vA koolaid so many others do on purported Veterans Benefits Sites. This was written by Steve Mungie and I might add well written. Mr. Mungie has field-stripped this subject and looked at the component parts. They stink. Little. if anything, is salvageable in my mind, too.Regardless, he makes a very good presentation for what’s wrong with this system. I’m zero for three with VSOs. I can only imagine his track record. Nevertheless, he approaches this from a different angle than I have all these years. Perspective is everything in this business. His is illuminating.
THE IRON TRIANGLE:
All Three Sides of the Greatest Shame in America’s History
All “triangles” have three sides.. in this case, all three are co-conspiritors to one of the worse frauds, and most unconscionable assaults ever, on America’s defenders, the Veterans of our many wars, and peacetime.
Those three are the Congress (or more specifially, the members of the combined House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees), the Veteran’s Administration and the third and most insidious of all, the National Veterans Service Organizations (brev. “NVSO”).
America as a whole consider our NVSO’s to be as American as apple pie, supporting the needs and the rights of our soldiers and veterans returning from war. Wrong! The NVSO’s are in fact, an “invention” of a very corrupt and greedy Congress, who found a unique way to use the veterans against themselves. Sadly the veterans after all these years, nay generations, has as yet, still not seen the light.
Before I continue, explaining exactly what I mean, let me throw at you, something that never occurred to the average Veteran. Ask yourself one of the simplest of all questions: have you ever wondered why there are 45 (now 48, I am told) different NVSO’s, providing a “need” for every conceivable
group of veteran?
Let me explain … we have the MCL for marines, the FRA for sailors, one group just for Air Force Sergeants, yet another for military officers only, one just for NCO’s, some that really specialize, like an NVSO just for
Jewish veterans, one for Black veterans, others for those who are blind, for the paralized, those disabled, an NVSO for holders of a Purple Heart, or other higher rated awards, one for veterans who have fought on foreign soil, and yet others which allow others who may not qualify for any special groups. We even have NVSO’s which caters to specific participation in certain wars or campaigns.
We even have one who would not allow Vietnam vets in because Vietnam “was not a real war”.
In essence, with a choice of 45 different groups, one has to ask … why? Would not just one or two good groups provide what is needed to secure the rights and need that Veteran seek?
Could not just the say, the DAV, or the MOPH, or the American Legion, offer to them, the facilities, the legal help, the support or the dirction that the need to push through the system, their claims for VA compensation and
help?
Further, one must wonder, why all of these groups offer the same so-called services, yet none seem to get the job done. And even more annoying, why is it all offer their own brand or form of “insurance” to help the Veterans or retirees cover expenses when they are sick …. rather than fighting to help the retirees to secure the promised free medical care for life, they were promised when they originally enlisted, or retired?
What? Kill the “cash cow” that pads their coffers? Not on your life! They provide the this supplimental insurance for one purpose only … money. Hence, to fight for the promise of lifetime medical care for retirees, would undermine their need for wealth at your expense. Are they really your friend? Not when it comes to separating you from your hard earned pensions.
But the Iron Triangle is still worse.
In order to explain exactly what the Iron Triangle is, we must first refer back to some aberrations of the law passed by Congress under United States Code 38, which is outrageously called “The Veterans Benefits Improvement
Act of 1940”, which is based on a reiteration of the very dictatorial principles of the highly UN-constitutional ECONOMIC EMERGENCY ACT of 1933, declared by
the US Supreme Court, as being UNCONSTITUTIONAL in its entirity. The only difference between the two laws, is that the “new” Veteran’s law applies to only one class of persons (that in itself alone is unconstitutional), America’s veterans. The culprit, if such could be so labeled, is USC Title 38, Section 511 a) formerly known as 211(a)), which, for more than six decades has prevented Veterans from seeking relief from the VA’s preditory and adversarial claims procedures, in a real court of law. It has had a binding affect on all veterans, often for life, to the VA’s own “kangaroo court system”, including its very own warped US Court of Veteran Appeals for Veterans Claims (or “CAVC”).
Quite often, the veteran after serving his country in the military, is forced to walk the corridors of time sometimes 10, 20, and upward to as long as 50 years, never knowing why he has been abandoned by his government and why his perfectly meritorious claim is continually denied.
In November of 1988, the VA, in concert with their NVSO cohorts, and the members of the Congressional House and Senate Veterans Affairs commitees, fearing a judicial review of the perverted VA claims decisions, gave us an
“Article I” administrative court, which has proven to be an absolute farce; a quasi-court, with quasi-judges.
Since that time, of some 17,000 (seventeen THOUSAND) veterans to apply to this farcical “court”, at best only 120 cases have been resolved, with positive “wins” for the Veteran. Of these cases, almost all go unpublished, making it impossible for veterans or their advocates to utilize any for case histories, or to assist in future claims assistance to other veterans.
A special note of interest: as small as this number is, the amount of veterans who have won their cases, what is even more outrageous is that the infinitesimal number who have collected any back money owed them by the VA. Also note
that no form of interest is offered or paid to any USC Title 38 retroactive claims.
This law must be changed: such a change could put an end to the VA’s transgressions in the way which they criminally adjudicated benefits claims.
A SOLUTION to the problem: when the VA denies a claim, initially (and within 90 days) the veterans must be allowed to take his claim to a ligitimate Article III Federal Court, nearest to his home. Specifically, a federal district court, in front of a real judge … or better still, a jury, just like all other Americans enjoy. It can no longer be the fraudulent VA “kangaroo court” system currently in use, much to the veteran’s harm.
The second part of this conspiracy against America’s Veterans, comes from USC Title 38, Section 5904, which prohibits a veteran from retaining his or her own attorney, to represent them in their benefits claims against the
VA. The veteran can only seek outside help of an attorney AFTER he has received his final decision from the VA’s infamous Board of Veteran Appeals (BVA). This process rarely ever takes less than SEVEN YEARS, and could conceivably exceed 30 or more years!
It literally becomes a game of constant remands, delays, “accidental mailings”, illegal and deliberate purging and destruction of records, “forgotton signatures”, an assortment of bureaucratic chicanery and other excused that can be dreamed up, during his life-long fight, including deliberate misrepresntation, all of which is aided and abetted by the NVSO’s “service officers”. More on this later.
Why this UN-constitutional statute? Because the VA does not want the veteran to be properly represented by an attorney, making the VA “forced” to follow the letter of the law. They would rather have the VA friendly NVSO’s “opposing” them, in their stacked courts.
The deck is stacked against the veteran from day one, by the misrepresentation of the NVSO’s service reps, who are rarely trained to properly represent the veteran, by “practicing law” (without proper license), in a very
controlled environment., designed to protect the VA’s very special “hidden turf”. The Copyright 2005. The following document may be used or reproduced as desired, for publication, for enlightenment, without any form of financial renumeration required. However it is not to be changed, modified, or altered in any manner. It must appear as originally written. MAY BE REUSED IN ANY NEWS ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRITY.
Written by Steve Mungie, Wndbear@aol.com, Houston County Alabama USA, Exercizing my God-given First Amendment Rights to Speak Out for those Who cannot, or will not. In association with Veterans For Constitutional Law, of New York, an independent Veteran’s Rights advocacy group, seeking fairness and legal parity for ALL of America’s honorable, yet dishonored veterans.
Congress has gone out of its way to protect the VA and NVSO’s special vested interests, at the expense of the Veteran, since the 1930’s.
Another Note if interest: the VA has on its payroll, more than 1200 of their own attorneys, using every conceivable tactic and devious means posssible, to circumvent the law, to deny veteran claims. The harm and devastation
that this has caused veterans and their families, because of USC Title 38, Section 5904, is irreparable.
During three separate oversight hearings by HVAC, debating legal aspects of real legal represntation for veterans, no veterans, family members nor survivors were invited to testify … only representatives of NVSO’s were permitted to do so. And, their testamony, as usual, was totally reprehensible , vehemently stating that veterans do not need lawyers when they have the “protection” of the NVSO’s
When the the NVSO “Vietnam Veterans of America” rose to speak, they testified honestly, stating our Constitutional Rights were being ignored by the VA. the committee chairman immediately closed the hearings down to protect their friends , the NVSO’s, and their “hidden legal turf”.
The second hearing was blown out by a snowstorm. At the third and final hearing, the HVAC did not even address the issue (although scheduled) because they had no intentions of doing so, thus usurping the power of the their cohorts, the NVSO’s
Another archaic statute, fueling the unbridled power of this IRON TRIANGLE , is USC Title 38, Section 5902(a), joking labeled the “GRAVY TRAIN STATUTE” but for good reason!
This statute, a true VA “farcical law” reads: “The Secretary of the VA, at his discretion (remember these three words!) may give rent free office space in VA buildings to the National Veteran Service Offices (NVSO’s).” Please note: it says NO more, and NO less.
BUT … a very very liberal interpretation of this law (remembering those three words), it also gives them FREE heating and electricity, FREE furniture, FREE computer equipment, FREE postage, FREE telephone service, FREE
stationary, and sometimes, FREE staff, to run thie offices, and … oh yeh, a totally tax free status, although the assets of most of these congressionally chartered NVSO’s could put some of our nation’s larger corporations to shame!
MILLIONS of dollars of “freebies” are literally given to these NVSO’s annually as “payback” (or should I say”loot”?) to help “keep the veterans in line”, by the “grateful” VA, for the NVSO’s representation, given to the veterans seeking their benefits claims under the perverted USC Title 38.
QUOTAS? Naw … you’re kidding, right? The VA’s hidden quota of FOUR PERCENT (4%) on service connected claims is never to be exceeded! This is fact, proven and documented over the past fifty years.
The VA has released all kinds of false figures stating 11 to 12 percent of all service connected claims are approved and paid. A higher up VA executive once revealed (either inadvertantly or for whatever reason) that the
VA “padded” thir figures: if a veteran is asking for 3, 4, or moe different things within his claim, and the VA grants one, they count it as FULL ADJUDICATION of the claim. This, he labeled as the VA’s “creative mathematics”. But …
this could not have been done alone. THis is where the third side of the Triangle comes in … the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
It is not by chance, but by design, that for more than six decades, decent Veterans legislation passing through the HVAC gets “BOONDOGGLED IN COMMITTEE” and never reaches the floor for discussion or vote. It is no accident that this committee has been kept under strict control by the VA; first through illuminaries like Roberts (VA), Sonny Montgomery (MS), Stump, (AZ), and now today …. the Republican’s BUYER, who follows the Bush partyline to the
mark!! (Entire list of HVAC & SVAC memebers appear below). Justice for Veterans has been held hostage for sixy, nay SEVENTY years, by these influential friends of the VA, completing the third side of this infamous IRON TRIANGLE.
This side of the TRIANGLE in spite of bantering by politicians, is NOT bipartisan, nor is it partisan politicking. It is NOT the congress-critters who occupy places in these committees, but instead, the lawyers and
others, who are there year in and year out, maintaining a stranglehold on Veteran
rights.
It is not question of Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat. It is plain and simple, GREED. It is the extent of connection with the VA and the NVSO’s … the NVSO’s hold most of these congress-critters in fear … the fear of being “bad mouthed” by the NVSO’s, and losing an election, if they do not shown deference to them, doing what they want! Any politician’s worse nightmare, is losing an election, and thus his grab for power!
THIS IS THE REASON THAT THE VETERANS MUST QUIT ALL MEMBERSHIPS IN ALL NVSO’S … or all efforts to change the status quo, is in vain.
Should a veteran write letters to any government agency or to anyone in power, or in Congress, to inform them of this on-going thievery, they will be answered and “snowed” with form letters using the words like allleged and “allegations” multiple times, and more likely, not even answered at all. Many vets and the families can positively testify too his fact.
At the creation of the VA’s “Kangaroo court system”, the then- chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC) stated in a four-page statement in the Senatorial Congressional Record, that if the VA’s court does not
effect real judicial review, within a year or two, the Senate will revisit the question to allow real article three federal courts to adjudicate veterans benefits claims. Being that almost from the beginning, it was proven that the VA’s “funny court” wasn’t working, (I) wrote to the senator on four separate occasions. The first three times, he did not answer me. The fourth leter received a reply of “Thank you for your comments on the Economy”.
Yet another veteran from Pennsylvania, received an answer similar: “Knowing of your interest in humane and ethical treatment of animals, I wanted to take this opportunity ….. ” Heard enough yet? As you can see, the
Congressional leadership are ignoring and evading the real questions.
The US Department of Justice (or more appropriately “Just Us”, which no longer protects the rights of the people, but serves now, the corruption of the administration and their corporate sponsors) was sent some information on the criminal trasnsgressions of the VA and the manner of their assault on America’s defenders, including multiple newspaper articles about two of the VA’s attorneys who were sent to prison for 15 months each, to pay for their crimes of altering and destroying disabled veteran’s claim files, in order to deny claims, so that they could collect larger bonuses. Of course, this a common practice within the VA, because of a multitude of employee incentive programs
based on the denial of veteran’s claims. The letter we received in response from the Just US Department as predicted, used the words “alleged” and “allegations” several times, and yet … these people, their employees, are serving time.
The IRON TRIANGLE is a bonding, a “melding” of the VA, the two Congressional VAC’s and the NVSO’s, which must be broken up, melted, and terminated …. permanently!
It is said that just prior to the Iraqi and Afghani Wars, there was an estimated 25 to 26 MILLION disabled Veterans, suspended somewhere out there in the “Twilight ZOne” of waiting, and waiting and waiting, only to discover that they VA was simply waiting them out, hoping to bury each, before they were forced to pay…
Now, facing this hurting and grieving nation, we have lost more than 4000 American trooper in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and neither war is over yet. And from those two on-going wars, more than ONE MILLION new disabled, both physically and mentally, veterans are (or may be) coming home. Will
we continue to allow the greed of Congress, the administation, and these other cohorts in crime, make life miserable for men and women who have already given far too
much already?
Our only hope, is to topple this IRON TRIANGLE, once and for all, by attacking its weakest link … the NVSO’s. To do so requires only one commitment on our part. Desert them, put an end to their stranglehold, by bankrupting them. ALL OF THEM.
QUIT YOUR MEMEBERSHIPS IN ALL 45 OF THE “CHARTERED BY CONGRESS” NATIONAL VETERAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, TODAY.
Refuse their Membership fees and drives
Refuse to support them
Refuse to participate
Refuse to pay “Dues”
Refuse to acknowledge them
Do not attnd their meetings, their bars, their clubs
Your choice, Veterans ………….
Steve Mungie
Wndbear@aol.com
Giving credit where credit is due ( and feeling like a one-legged man in an ass -kicking contest), I rely on all of you for the tasty treats about vA that turn up here. Thank goodness it’s being typed out on a vA ILP-supplied computer and keyboard. Anything less would be unacceptable. Thus, due to the sleuthing of WGM, we get to read all about what appears to be a major new hole below the waterline in the already dead-in-the-water USS. Dept. of veterans Affairs.
Unfortunately at presstime three months after the revelation, we’re still unable to get a number to hang on all this “training” from Undersecretary for VA Training Benefits Allison Hickey. Apparently the numbers are too large to remember off the top of her pretty little head. Apparently Uncle Eric is equally stumped but they’re working on it. We were told we should hear something the day after the election on November 6th but to check back if we don’t hear anything sooner. Same-same for the BVA decisions website snafu, GI.
Oh yeah. As for the “Thank You For Your Service”bumperstickers we’ve been handing out at the Vets’ Jobs Fairs? We honestly didn’t know they were printed in China. Our supplier assured us they were coming from a union shop in Korea, South Carolina. We’re looking into that one, too. Relax.
Read this and weep. This is why I am proud to have a Vietnam Veteran driving my claim boat, ladies and gentlemen. Thomas Banzul is cut from the same bolt of cloth as Bob. Sadly, our numbers dwindle faster than other Vets. Soon Vietnam Vets will have no voice of their own.
If I sound ambiguous, allow me to elucidate. My attorney currently holding my POA is a Vietnam Veteran himself. I do not mean to imply it is Mr. Banzul. He embodies all that my counsel does. We are a dying breed-far more so due to the egregious effects of AO which will be acknowledged long after we’re gone. A Vet could do far worse than get Thomas to defend him. He could hire a VSO!
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