SP4RVN1971

Yes, that if he was 10% service connected. When did he serve, Vietnam? If he was Boots on ground in Vietnam, yes he should be 60% at least.

I have used Proton therapy and try all the above . I'm still on Zytiga , but about to start a new drug for me. Last year was a hard year and I'm doing the best I can. MD Anderson Cancer Center is fighting this cancer and VA is Helping!

I'm sorry I have not been so active , But I have been trying to dodge the Agent Orange bullet! I have the honor to help a World War II Marine that serve at Nagasaki 3 weeks after the Bomb was drop. We took two years to get it and he is 100% P&T. . He 89 years old, but I think he is one great Marine and I thank him for his service! God bless, as John999 said, " NEVER GIVE UP" SP4RVN

This is great, maybe you can go for SSDI if you can.

Well, I have not been around for 8 months or so. As I go to MD Anderson Cancer Center they are at lost to cure this PC. They have been slowing it down, but no cure. The VA Hospital Oncologist and the outside specialist have no earthly what to do. VA Hospital has a group of veterans that have this PC and we get to gather to talk about treatments, our plans, and problems we face. All my friends inside of me (tumor's) are still growing. Plus all the other agent orange friend's I have are keeping me busy. Life is good, as long as pills are THERE! It's good to be back, Ralph

John, I agree this is sad! I try not to get mad, but as I fight this cancer and heart condition and knowing one of them will kill me.

Welcome, You need to file for prosate cancer cause by AO. Did they remove your prostate? A lot of PC do not metastasis, but left alone for a long time can metastasis. Maybe you got it early. Welcome Aboard!!!!

Help me understand why VA will give me a drug called Zytiga for my PC which cost $7,600.00 and won't supply me with Lyrica for my PN which cost $397.00? The VA nurse's say they will, but soon as I see the Primary Doctor's they no way, VA will not supply. SP4 Should I get my outside primary Doctor to write a prescription for Lyrica and take it to VA?

Welcome Aboard, Thank you for your service. Try to remember the goal of VA is to make you go away. Never give up, and you will get your compensation.

C.C., continue your fight to help these veterans from all wars. Chemical exposure is a bullet that is silent, but so deadly. There is Veterans that did not go to Vietnam that has been infected with this chemical disease. Your job is so far from being done, YOU take care and NEVER GIVE UP. God Bless

Capt., my hat is off for the work you do for the Veteran's. I look at that picture of you and I see me in 1970 as I went to the promise land.

Nancy, I don't know where you live and if have privite insurance, But I know that there is new trials drugs out there for pancreatic cancer or should I say that places like MD Anderson cancer center have the latest drugs that fight this monster. Good luck and God Bless Ralph

You, specially you have nothing to apologize for, you might help me heal my wounds or not. It good talking to you, thanks again.

Philip, me and you have had this discussion and we do not agree and thats fine. I wish I could think with my penis. It gone away because they had cut out of inside. I wear pads to protect and to remind me what I lost Your right there is other forms of love and sex as you get older. My wife and me have a good relationship with the help of God. I don't hang my hat on the sex thing, but I hang my hat on that VA not given me or anybody more 0 % precent a service connection. If I'm totally deformed it should be 100%..... Thank you for your side, and thank you for your Service..

I got 0% for ED, They called it "Deformity of the Penis" 0% -service connected. I did get SMC for Loss of Creative organ--- $105.00 - I think it s**k. I know most Vet's don't agree with me. Lost of sex is still important.

Remember these sad days, that they forgot us. I remember getting of that airplane from Vietman and the hateful thing's people said to us. Vietnam Veteran started hiding from the War, and were to proud to come forward to get help. They died! Now this government is thinking these Wars are over and trying forget them, our Hero's! PTSD is one of many bad Diseases. VA is trying to cut the budget from our troops and taking care of them.

Vet2010, this is great news, If you don't need to spend the money. Keep it for a raining day

Nancy, My heart and prayers are with you and your best. May God help Y'all thru these times of trouble.

Look at the water source as a possible problem for her conditions and yours. Recent studies in Vietnam was that water is one of the many source of the Agent Orange to infect us.

Ridehard, Table 3, interesting, so this base looks like dump site.

Welcome Aboard, It looks like you had a ruff time of your on. You hang in there God Bless!

I got to spend my 19th birthday. Don't remember it, I would like too. I was on the down side of the curve in 1970 with 334,000 troops. John, yes there were other ages of career soldiers. The average age was somewhere about 20. Ralph

The write up was done by Seal of Honor. I'm not that good of writer!

Some claims will take up to 2 years and longer. I would try the 1-800 number maybe that might help. If you talk to one of the Peggie's and they will send a letter to office that is handling or process your claim. It can't hurt

You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded , and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out , you know this is the day. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it. Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses. And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out. Medal of Honor Recipient , Ed Freeman , died at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul.....