steve from staten island
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Forgive me for being so cynical. All i hear is support for our veterans. In this case the veterans are the most important ones and thats the ones who endured combat and were wounded in the line of duty.
Again i asked the lady who delivers my mourning newspaper how her son was doing. I asked did he ever get squared away with his disability as a result of his being severely wounded. No she told me the VA tells them there very backed up. He does get a small disability for some sort of hearing loss as a result of the road side bomb that his vehicle ran over almost completely taking his leg off and other injuries and then there was the issue of him regaining consciousness and finding his buddies decapitated head laying in his lap.
The young guy is not in good shape, countless operations and just shoving more pain meds on him to the point he got addicted. He beat that and now has a minimum wage job as thats all he can really do. If it wasn't for his family i shutter to think were he would be.
His mom said he is doing ok but he really needs to get squared away with the VA.
Note that this happened years back and still its not settled. His mom told me its been a uphill battle and this so called the country doing the best for wounded vets is not really all that accurate. She has gotten some help i think she mentioned from local politicians so far. Lets hope this young guy gets what he deserves so he can have some sort of stable life without worrying about paying the rent.
Again i asked the lady who delivers my mourning newspaper how her son was doing. I asked did he ever get squared away with his disability as a result of his being severely wounded. No she told me the VA tells them there very backed up. He does get a small disability for some sort of hearing loss as a result of the road side bomb that his vehicle ran over almost completely taking his leg off and other injuries and then there was the issue of him regaining consciousness and finding his buddies decapitated head laying in his lap.
The young guy is not in good shape, countless operations and just shoving more pain meds on him to the point he got addicted. He beat that and now has a minimum wage job as thats all he can really do. If it wasn't for his family i shutter to think were he would be.
His mom said he is doing ok but he really needs to get squared away with the VA.
Note that this happened years back and still its not settled. His mom told me its been a uphill battle and this so called the country doing the best for wounded vets is not really all that accurate. She has gotten some help i think she mentioned from local politicians so far. Lets hope this young guy gets what he deserves so he can have some sort of stable life without worrying about paying the rent.