20 Year Anniversary Jan 20, 2017 HadIt.com Veteran To Veteran

[Tbird]

I left the Navy Dec 17, 1990. The beginnings of HadIt.com Veteran to Veteran "By Feb 1991 I had moved to the San Francisco bay area and was staying at a friend’s apartment and pretty much I was just a puddle. In desperation one night I called suicide hotline, I had no job, no idea about going to the VA. They talked with me for a long time and explained to me that I could go to the local VA hospital even if I did not have insurance. Now, I know what you are thinking if I was 50% why didn’t I just go to the VA in the first place, two reasons 1, this was Feb 1991 and the 50% didn’t come till May and 2, even if it had come thru it is unlikely that I would have had the mental acuity at the time to put the two together. I relate this here because it is where so many of our brothers and sisters are coming from, perhaps where you started. Fuzzy and unsure, in pain and sometimes homeless they come to the VA hospital for help. And that is where I ended up. Up to the pysch ward I went, blah, blah, blah, a few days later I was released with a promise of a call from the out-patient program, which I would soon be entering. Blah, blah, blah, after many miscommunications, and no call backs I was at the Day Hospital everyday M-F. And this brothers and sisters is where I began to learn and formulate my plan for HadIt.com." Read More http://www.hadit.com/about-me/

[Tbird]

gaetone navy all the way - :-)

[Berta]

Hadit is a GREAT accomplishment Tbird and you have altered the lives of THOUSANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the Gov should give you a $$$$ Grant to continue this site because this site should be a training program for VA raters and DROs etc, etc....( and also for vet reps, VS0s,....)

and if the new VA Secretary really wants to understand what he is dealing with (he is VHA) and now he is also VBA, he needs to come here and see what problems vets have,with VA, and with fully valid claims, that most of the time ,have caused the backlog.

We claimants didn't cause the backlog, the VA did. 

And the fact that often when vets get a real doctor ( IMO/IME) to opine on their claims, they can reverse a denial---------proving how incompetent some of these C & P doctors are.

I know for a fact that a C & P doctor in 1996 was under a lot of pressure to write his exam results (posthumous C & P) in a way to go against the claim.VA made sure he did by not giving him my most probative evidence.

It also happened when I FTDAed them.

2 VA doctors by phone ( one at VA Central and one at Buffalo) were shocked to learn that the RO had not given them a 6 page autopsy, that in my H VAC testimony revealed I had sent it to them 12 times by Priority mail.

VA HAS TO CHANGE.

But it will take veterans themselves to help change it.

( and widows like me who are sick and tired of the crap they pull on us)

 

 

 

If there is any radio show planned I hope I can call in......this will be a busy week for me.....but Friday is so Special!!!!!!

 

 

Edited January 17, 2017 by Berta

[Tbird]

Thank you @Berta and thank you all for without you there would be no HadIt.com

[Buck52]

Yes all of us veterans are very greatful to Ms T Bird, she has endured the test of time  time and time again and has made many great friends during her journey with Hadit  and some great friends she has lost due to there S.C.Disbility and some unexpected deaths  and I know that has to be the hardest of all for her.

Hadit site has helped me not only with my claims but also helped me mentally and my PTSD is better to cope with & hadit has kept me busy helping other veterans which I so love  and hadit was there all the way.

For those of us that love helping veterans this site will grow on you  it has for me and Ms Berta And a whole lot of other members as well.

We never can give MsTbird enough thanks for creating Hadit.com

Heres to your wonderful & gracious 20 years and may there be another 20 years to come

I Love you Ms Tbird

 

......Buck

[Tbird]

@Buck52 thank you for those kind word 

[saxman]

Thank you Tbird!  You have helped so many people because you started this forum, and I know many vets who have been down and dealing with issues from the service and didn't know how to get help. Thanks again! I discovered your forum by accident when I was typing had it.