Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Phase II - Your Post No. 1

Reporting for Roll Call - 15:15Hrs 7-10-13
Hi LT:
Back again. Took short break to take care of other matters.
Re: Your Post No. 1
Since I've never had to deal with the disability claims process, directly, I'll defer to your experience with it.
 
From what you say in your post, our Cherry Troop faces a VA which has an institutional bias against any veteran's claim for any kind of disability related to invisible wounds such as PTSD and/or toxin wounds of one kind or another. If its "motto" about that is...Lie and Deny Till You Die!...that means the VA is deliberately doing everything it can to obstruct the processing of such disability claims, and, has made that a matter of general policy. In short, if that is the case, the VA considers and treats such claims as coming from liars and frauds, who are only trying to "game" the system. My only reaction to such a situation is: WHAT IN THE HELL DID ANYONE SERVE FOR THEN? Worse than that, if that is the sub rosa policy, then every Sec. of the VA, every senior official of the VA...every shrink(as the one you mentioned),every administrative bureaucrat involved in the process are all liars and hypocrites (and we haven't even mentioned all our "honorable" elected officials such as the Pres. Senators, Congressmen).Talk about "conspiracy theories"! If that's the reality involved with such a process, then it's a doozy.
 
Sorry, but I have a hard time wrapping my mind around such a thing. Is it really that calculated, that contemptuous of all those who've honorably served, that, should they make a claim for those invisible wounds incurred, they are considered and treated as frauds? I really hate to think so. Or is it simply a matter of a massive organizational incompetence, and sheer slipshod, lazy, bureaucratic inertia? Having said that, sounds like one is as bad as the other.
 
So, if it's is a matter of figuring out how to play the VA's game (something akin to Chess, maybe?),what are some of the opening moves our Cherry Troop needs to make? For instance...can you explain how a claim is initiated? And how is it put together?
CENTURION

 

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  1. Reporting for ROLL CALL 7/17/13 4:09PM
    Hey Bill!
    This will be my last reply on Phase I of ROLL CALL. Our web designer, Dan Da Man, has created a totally new BLOG that we will use now. So, Phase I of ROLL CALL is done.

    I might add you've done a magnificent job on Phase I with your posts and replies. Your wisdom and patriotism are beyond words, and anyone reading up to this point knows it for fact. I know you had a rough go of it in the Korean War, and you very seldom talk about it. I know there are deep wounds in your soul from having fought in that war. But, like so many of you "Silent Warriors" of the Korean War, you don't waste words about your involvement with it.

    Seems we Vietnam Veterans were the first to break this code of silence. We are the 'cry babies'. We question our leaders. We bitch and moan about this and that to the point most Americans wish we'd just go away. So, the combination of you and me on this ROLL CALL amounts to an astute communication that we have openly shared with all who come to this site. But, that is going to change, now. Going into Phase II of ROLL CALL is going to get 'down and dirty'. I am going to reveal to you the behavior of the VA, our government leaders, our business overlords and many more that is not becoming of a gentleman, let alone an import persona at the head of the table. By doing so, I'm going to take you to areas on this pond we are skating that will be a lot thinner ice than what we have been supported by in this Phase I of ROLL CALL.

    So, anyone reading this, my last response here on Phase I of ROLL CALL , who is wanting to have my advice on just how to make a claim with the VA, then you are going to have to contact me personally. Phase II of ROLL CALL is being blocked to the general public. The only way one can get onto this new BLOG is to contact me, and I will decide if you are going to 'profit' by being able to enter Phase II of ROLL CALL. One can do this in several ways, but the easiest is to email me at my personal email address here:

    Kittytahoetoy@yahoo.com

    So, to put an end to this first phase, I want to once again applaud you, and "Dan Da Man" for the wonderful contribution you two have made to our nation here on ROLL CALL's Phase I. I can not tell you enough that I so wish I had had this BLOG in front of my eyes the day after I was done with my Active Duty in the United States Army on February 5, 1969. If I had had this information, my life would be a lot different today. BUT, that is water under the old bridge, so I need not waste any of my time wishing. If wishes were skiffs, we'd all be on the ocean....

    LT

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