Victor Ray

flores97. I emailed that address last week, and I have a notice that it didn't go through, but didn't get it for a couple days after it was sent. I believe it did go through, but will hopefully hear something soon. I watched the townhall meeting in Bucks link, and there is a veteran that has had a NOD in the works for over 30 years. 30 Years? Now, if he knows about this, and is telling the world that the vet is still waiting for a decision 30 years later, something is wrong. Something smells bad with this. Shulkin said Everytime a veteran submits a new piece of evidence, the process starts all over again. Another way of punishing the Veteran? Someone else will get the claim so that a whole new set of excuses can be used, and others blamed for incompetence. I do not believe a word about these phony backlogs and delays. They are false, purposely created, and mistakes and errors intentionally pushed into the dead file room.I'm glad you got yours in 5 weeks, but I have been waiting a year as of last Jan 19 2016, so I have to go hmm mm. Bob McDonald never responded to emails or phone calls. Some of us are placed on the "let die" list because they don't want to touch Agent Orange claims, especially when filed in the 1980s. Victor Ray

Thanks Buck. I'm hanging on to all evidence, and of course they have his email addy, but they are typical VA employees, so I wouldn't expect the truth anyway. It will have to go to hundreds of offices and meetings galore before anyone could make a decision on giving it out. I expected to be lied to, and was, lol...

Buck. The VA just told me minutes ago David Shulkin does not have an email address, lol. I am pretty dure it is David.Shulkin@va.gov, but my letter did not go through, it looks like. There was no Daemon Mailer response, so I think it did, but I don't look for anyone to respond. I just through that out there for those that get the same action that I did. Thanks. Victor Ray

Berta, Buck, and Rootbeer. I just saw this and believe Sec. Shulkins email address you posted is correct. Sorry Rootbeer, no hijacking was intended, and inexperience got the best of me. Please pardon me. Berta, and Buck, thank you kindly for everything and again, my apologies. Victor Ray

Gastone, I have been put in for reconsideration and I hope it will be approved' especially because of the 2 ischemic strokes, heart disease, brain hypodensity, 100% carotid artery occlusion, artherosclorosis, arteriosclerosis, calcium score over 1000, malignant cancers, 24 intentional tumors, blood coagulation issues, broken tailbone, GERD, degenerative bone disease, enlarged prostate, incontenence, chronic SOB, inability to stand for long periods, walk, and on and on. I was hospitalized a month buy should have been a couple months at least, but didn't complain when they released me. I was sent "Home Awaiting Orders", because they couldn't treat or help me. I was supposed to have "over 120 days recovery time" to fully stableize, carry the Code U and P-3 permanent profile on DA 3349, but that never happened, I never stabilized, I never recovered, and was ill when honorably discharged. The 1983 denial was part of the AO Cover-Up. My records were hidden for 45 years causing me to try and explain something even the Army's best didn't know or understand. They didn't know about A O supposedly, in 1971, but by 1983 they did, but denied the truth anyway. Now, it's time to come clean 46 years too late, but better than being beaten to death, right. Victor Ray

Each time I am told there is no evidence of service connection, I look at the diagnosis of "atopic dermatitis" on May 26 1971 at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam and the confirmation by a "fee based dermatologist", hired by the VA in 1983, and his diagnosis of "atopic dermatitis with generalized pruritus" and knowing I had never had a skin problem in my life, and wonder who these raters really are. How old are they and do they even know about herbicide residuals? To say there was no condition, treatment, or diagnosis of any illness, disease or injury in service is absurd at best. Then to claim there is no record of it makes me believe the records are being intentionally manipulated, hidden, or destroyed by VA employ employees due to supervisors instructions. I was called just a month after I filed and told I was receiving an increase in several claims I had active. When she started naming them off, I realized this is wrong. I hadn't claimed those things, and she had me verify identification over and over, and would not believe I had not claimed those disabilities. I finally convinced her that I had never received any compensation at all. She refused for quite a while to accept who I was and that I had not been on the payroll for years and years already. It took from July to mid November for my claim to be entered into the system to start the process? Most claims would be close to complete, but I wasn't even in the system yet? Was someone ALREADY RECEIVING MY BENEFITS? Did she accidentally expose fraud by someone? Was an employee or another person using my identity and receiving benefits meant for me? I notified OIG, but they could care less. Probably a supervisor double dipping into funds they thought I was receiving. i would still like to know agh out that incidents details, but it is hush hush now. Never happened, right? Something is really rotten in St. Louis, but covered up very well. Where was the money going? Who was getting a monthly check? It wasn't me, and, I had never received one cent for any contrition, and didn't even have one medical record for the last 45 years, until last spring. Tell me nothing IS NOT strange about all this!!! I think fraud has been going on for years, and were almost caught. What do you think? Victor Ray

I I Have had people call me from Ohio telling me to drop some of my claims. Why? A local VA agent told me to drop some of my claims, why. I have the evidence, and maybe a judge somewhere that has a set, will make the VA acknowledge the facts. Delaying the truth does not change it. It will take an honest individual a few minutes to look these documents over to see how my claim has been manipulated by DAV and the VA. I believe only an attorney and the publics opinion will convince the VA to actually inspect the documents, and tell the judge what these terms mean, and they say that the lay person is incapable of rendering a medical opinion, lol. They mean an opinion that must totally agree with the avA decision, regardless of evidence.

Well, I will try this one more time, but it keeps getting cut off or deleted. I can actually watch the letters being typed long after they are entered. I suppose the CIA will bump me off someway next. the evidence is ignored. It is purposely said not to exist, and the word lies is the only appropriate low life term that describes these actions. Corruption at it's best.

Gastone. 14 months I filed a NOD and asked for a face to face hearing. They said kook, and that it is averaging 310 days to happen. Everyone says it is 3 years and maybe more, so that 310 day nonsense is just smoke up the rear, and embarrassing to even hear an adult say. That average needs to be updated to 3 years or more. I would only give up the IU for for retro retirement bac

Gastone, Sorry about the pictures. It's just so much easier to snap a picture than scan and file everything. Anyway, no, I just now got 70% in 2017, but I see now. Effective date of 2016, yes. Thats ok, I shouldn't even be on here wasting your time. I have been totally disabled for almost 7 years now. I retired because I couldn't do my job. No energy, no stamina, and had a stroke a few months later. Don't it figure! I had no "physical capacity and stamina" after Vietnam and the Army and Va knew it because it's a permanen record on DA3349. I can't find a better word than "lies" to describe the decisions I've received. I have been working directly with the VA because DAV "lied" to my face, and I dumped them before they screwed me any more than they already had. They got the last laugh though when they told the VA to award me "0" on a reconsideration. They showed me what makes the government what it really is. I don't understand why my education level or current income has anything to do with my disability? How does that entitle me to anything? I was hospitalized a month for internal conditions from exposure to ingesting something, which is more than likely Agent Orange, since vets who only put only one foot on the soil are also awarded disability ratings, or worked on a C123,15 years after the war was over. The urticaria was just a physical manifestation of massive internal destruction from Agent Orange, like the other veterans that were in Vietnam, except I was in the hospital a month for it, while they may have a foot on the ground for a second, and maybe not. If I completed college, would I be entitled to more compensations? These things seem to take priority over the disability to the VA. I think the public is going to have to decide this and let the VA tell me why I was refused medical treatment and service connection and claim that I never even complained or was treated for any condition. i think I will drop the reconsideration and get legal help like I should have done in 1971. Thanks Gastone. VR

I have absolutely no reason to doubt you. I can't believe anything I read and see happening either. I was evacuated out of there and one year later in a coma from migraines and fever. Of course the records from being released from the infectious disease ward June 14 1971 til I was hospitalized again on January 10 1972 Are still withheld. Hhhmmmmm. That's when the migraines got real bad. A month with Group A Streptococcal infection is bad, real real bad. That alone is deadly, and not to be treated properly in this day and age is not only rediculious, it's unbelievable. What does it take to get a doctor off his rear and do something to prove he practices medicine instead of motor pool work. I was ill after Vietnam for a year or more, but the damage was done in that year. I figured I was being lied to again. It's the VA way! Thanks Victor Ray

I just got these months ago. They were withheld since 1971. I could get them for civilian treatments, and it caused even more conditions.

My correspondence gets removed before I can post it.

Buck. Thanks again. I have already sent them an email, and stressed that I have the documentation to back up what I am claiming. It was not that short, but it was to the point with a little history explanation to back it up, and hopefully, it gets through. I tried working directly with the VA, but it seems that 2.5 years of talking at least once every week has not gone anywhere to speak of, and I feel I have been played for a fool to see just how much I knew, and how long I would let this serade go on, while they all laughed at me being a sucker for believing anything the VA says. I can't believe I had any faith in them being even remotely honest, when they have proven over and over just how dishonest they really are. I deserve it. I really am a fool for believing in the VA. Thanks for your help in every way. Victor Ray

Berta. Thank you. I just read your original post, and how it was written up. I tried writing that up too a few years ago, but it wasn't near as good or legally explained as yours. I assumed that the VA had people that interpreted lay statements, and that they reviewed the evidence and could see the clear and obvious errors made by any previous decision, and correct them. I see that it does not work that way, and me being hospitalized in Vietnam is a direct accusation of that the Herbicides used n Vietnam directly affected my current conditions as well as in 1971. It is not likely that i alone was affected and the Vietnamese citizens not affected. Our government does not want a connection of liability to Vietnamese people, so it seems the wording is everything, and DAV sold me out, lying to me and offering bad advise and incorrect information. VSOs are protected by the same laws that protect used car sales people and the warranty on the vehicle. VSOs warranties are about the same. Should have read the fine print. I am going to write a few more letters and include the evidence, and hope. The raters ignored the evidence, the VA ignored the evidence, DAV ignored the evidence, but maybe the White House won't. I know when the right person sees the evidence, they are going to ask "what is the problem here"? Who in the hall reviewed this, and who can not read and connect a few dots. St. Louis must be exposed for corruption. thank you Berta. Victor Ray

Buck. Thank you. The address I found matched the .gov you show. I did write him an email. But whether he responds or not is questionable. All I can do is try. I am writing anyone that will listen, and those in Washington that give a hoot may take the time to read the mail, maybe not. They even embarrass me with the blatant abuse of power, and the rediculious statements they sent me. I believe it is the corrupt swamp dogs dictating control out of Washington, but hopefully, they don't control Mr David Shulkin. These corrupt bought off officials need to be exposed and the statements be used as evidence of their corruption. Thank you for the help Buck. Victor Ray

Buck52 Right now I have an open appeal for a DRO, since January 2016, which was supposed to have an average wait time of 310 days. I am also putting in for reconsideration of other claims that were just rated last month. I am disabled over 7 years now, and was denied IU. They just deny anything they want regardless. One document I received 8 or 9 months ago shows an Upper Respiratory Infection that is diffuse, acute, and organism undetermined. LD: Yes. The Dg 1. 4650, which appears to be acute laryngopharyngitis.. It seems to me that the 1983 denial was found to be a mistake, or that it helps prove other dioxin exposure claims besides the ones already presumptive. Hypertension was also denied, and I clearly have it, but it is not presumptive, yet. I have said for years that I had Rheumatic Fever, but the Army did not diagnose it, or removed the record if they did. I was hospitalized Jan 10 with an acute, diffuse, Upper Respiratory Infection and over a month later on Feb. 17 1972 still had the GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS", but was by now "RHEUMATIC FEVER", and the VA says I never made a complaint. RFever is a complication of "Scarlet Fever" and they misdiagnose everything. I never received any antibiotic therapy either. This whole "RATERS ARE GOD'S GIFT TO GOVERNMENT" Idea is not a commandment and it needs to be put in its rightful place, instead of twisting the truth. I totally agree with you Buck, and I think they are trying to spin any delay they can. Why? I don't know. I have the documents, they have them too, and I have been too patient, but they control the law, the regulations, the truth, and the BVA, possibly. Proof doesn't matter, it seems, but I am gonna write the undersecretary if I can find an email address. I wrote Bob McDonald and called, but never got a response, so an attorney seems to be the likely choice. Thank you guys, all of you. Victor Ray

Mike Hunt, I know that. It is just a forum to get a little advice, but hopefully someone may get something out of a little honest talk. There are a lot of raters and examiners that are unqualified and shouldn't even be employees, at the VA or anywhere else. I can imagine them as a caregiver, Not! When an Examiner, a VSO, rating officers, or anyone flat out controls and manipulates the laws and regulations as the judge, jury, and pay roll officer, they are no good, and some people actually are just no good. Time is on their side and those job positions at the VA lasts forever, and they answer to no one. When one rater retires, another one picks up right where the last sentense ended, mean while a number of Veterans have died, a number resolved with low ball ratings, some mediocre ratings, some totally denied, and some are resolved. Those that are dead and those that are resolved correctly are history. All others have to be reconsidered or appealed, and a number of those will die, some lowballed again, some get a modest increase, and the cycle repeats. More of us die with no resolution because we went to the back of the line too many times, and the design worked as planned again. I have learned too much, and understand too well, but I see now why I never got it when I was younger and was denied decades ago. Thanks all for listening. Victor Ray

Fat. thank you for a he encouragement. I can't give up. It would almost be a sin to let this go when the only thing keeping it from being resolved is the corruption of a few VA executives manipulating a few dishonest ROs. What kind of a person looks at an official government document and says this never happened? What kind of person allows unskilled morons to work under them at the VA in the first place? Evil people is who. The supervisors are unskilled as well because they review every decision coming out of that office, and to approve blatant lies shows this person's character and soul, and what they really think of the truth. They will maintain the evidence was lost, or destroyed, and the raters aren't to blame, and I say I see the lies forming before they print them. They consider themselves elite, interpreters of law, and have the authority, but no intellect. They are despicable people at best. Scum.

Mike Hunt. Thanks for getting what I am saying. I wish the VA would get it too, but something compells them to lie in spite of the evidence, and that is flabbergasting to me. They throw their own laws and regulations right down the toilet and give the finger to justice. I am working with an employee at the VA that seems to be genuinely a good person, helping me in a good way, where DAV helped in a bad way with lies and deception. She is the tiny thread between me and a law suit, medical malpractice being just one point of it. I went through our state senator Clair McCaskill, because ranking member Blumenthal forwarded our correspondence and recommended her. That went nowhere, and her office couldn't even get the missing medical records I've tried to get for decades, so that was a waste of resources. Our other senator defended Montsano(makers of AO), so he would have been a dagger in the back at best, and sold me out. I am going to see what happens in the next couple months, and go from there. The level of dishonesty is staggering, and supposedly my claim made its way around the country because of workloads. That is a lie too. The NWQ is a phony step in the process and just made up to please us and lead us to believe they are trying real hard. The back log is intentionally self created. My claims were started and stopped in four different states before declaring that I never even complained about any conditions, and there are no records of it either. I feel the VA wants to tie me up in litigation, until I die. Why else would they say things that are easily proven false, when they know I have documented evidence. I guess the next thing will be they claim an employee destroyed the evidence, resulting in years of delays for thousands of us, knowing hundreds or thousands of us will die before any of this is made public, if it even ever is made public. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands believe there even is a backlog at All? They hope you buy it, just like there is no record of me having a skin disease or complaint. Don't you believe it!

Root beer. You are correct in my opinion ofgoing to your own medical opinions, but don't forget the deception factor. A lot of the examiners and raters are just not good people. They are rotten and dishonest to the core with no hope of redemption. They were rotten and dishonest kids that grew bigger and older, and dishonest opinions and examinations are encouraged, or, just plain old lying works too. I have no faith in this corrupt system, and hiding records chasing expedited death and illness should put medical experts in prison. Only medically trained experts can have an opinion, and when that opinion is a blatant lie, it's illegal. My case is clear, and the raters are knowingly lying, and are going to be called out on the inept, unqualified, unprofessional opinions laced with lies. Honest errors are one thing, but this intentional abuse of power needs to be addressed by higher authorities, because it is above this caliber of employees.

Rotor beer. I hate to say it, but I was gullible too, and still am. I lost faith in the VA in 1983 when I was flat denied for the very conditions the Army documented in Vietnam in the line of duty. They still deny the facts on the documents Col. Cochrane, and 2 Majors, and a captain testified to. The Col. Was the commander of the 24th Evacuition Hospiital, Long Binh, Republic of Vietnam, and they all four had a medical board and determined I had incurred permanent defects in my "physical capacity and stamina", a systematic condition. I developed every one of those conditions and more, but the VA is staffed with low life, unskilled, uneducated in common sense equations, and are just plain old liars when nothing else works, saying I didn't even complain and nothing is on record. 100% lies and it's all on record! but they flex their muscles, and spit on us pee-owns, knowing they can drag this out for years, and maybe a bunch of us will die before resolution. The OIG proved it. Get your own medical opinion, but immediately ask for a "RECONSIDERATION" before you file a NOD. Good luck. Victor Ray

Buck. That was a good read. Shows that your future can hang on whether a rating officer got lucky last night, or if they have an addiction, or going through a medical crisis themselves, or just smoked some pot. It is as much about them and their mood as it is about the veterans claim. I went through our senator but that didn't do anything. Supposedly she was only there one week and I believe she was. I believe the VA fed her a bunch of bull and she realized she was fighting her bosses. She's paid by the government and the VA is the government, so when they say it didn't happen, for all practical purposes it didn't. i'm glad you won the CUE, but my claim denials were intentional. I was lied to all my life, the Army lied about Agent Orange along with the VA, the examiner in 1983 discussed things with me that he apparently left out of his report, INTENTIONALLY! Who knows what the truth is because the whole dang organization is a liars club, with it's foundation based on lies. They just erase historical facts affecting millions.

I will have to chech that out and didn't have any knowledge of that information. I'll check it out. Thanks! No, I have no VSO because they were caught lying to my face. I have not been told I am terminal with any condition yet, but I know how it is all progressing. I had way to many issues way too long. The VA denies every military medical document I submit, basically saying the documents the Army's medical officers created do not exist, really pissing me off. How do they get away with so much lying? I do not fit the description I guess. Through the 80s and 90s they turned me away because I made too much money to qualify for medical care, I was denied service connection in 1983 because Agent Orange didn't cause any harm or disability, and some conditions now are denied because I never had any conditions, never complained, never had a skin disease according to the rating officers. All that time hospitalized in Vietnam (a month), the hospitalization at Redstone Aesenal for systemic respiratory infection, the INVASIVE Group A Streptococcus they let go and didn't treat, the migraines, the painful prostate, and on and on just doesn't register with these raters, and they do this for a living? Shame on the VA for employing such unqualified personnel. I feel that my records would expose some unwanted news for them, so they hid them all my life, making me deteriorate quicker than I would have, naturally, without the AO help.