2008 And Hadit.com

[Tbird]

2008

Hello Brothers and Sisters,

We are now going into our 11th year, hard to believe but here we are!

Some Statistics from 2007 I think you might find interesting are attached to this post as a pdf.

I usually like to have a new look on the main site (http://www.hadit.com) each new year. However, the past few months have presented me with some challenges I was unable to overcome to work on the site.

So I will work on the site, however it will be sometime this year rather than the beginning of the year.

I have plans for more demonstration movies, perhaps some podcasts, more content, better navigation and so on.

Thank you Brothers and Sisters for hanging in there with me.

Tbird



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[allan]

Thank you TBird for Hadit.com.

Hadit.com is a life saver and a gift of yours that keeps on giving to all of us, year after year.

My mental state was not very good during 2007. Please except my apologies for any tudes i've gotten into. I'm praying this year will be better.

Through your work TBird, we remain a family and the best Veterans information site on the Internet.

Thank you for helping us all.

My best to you...............Allan

[Capt.]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year...... I just wanted to say how thankful I am for this site. To T-Bird and Berta and Stretch,Pete,Mike Harris,Wings,Josephine,Bob,Vike,Flave,Ricky and so many more ,please forgive me for not remembering everyone. I started here with my claim in this year(FEB07)though I had started getting sick 6-7 years ago. The VA did not offer to figure anything out. It was OTHER VETS who had to do it on their own and with the HELP of those VETS I was able to find a starting point and way to try and put some since to this thing we call the VA. I couldn't agree more with T-Bird about the VSO situation .....it is terrible. For every VSO that is really knowledgeable and really has something to offer there are another 10 that really maybe do not have the skills, and knowhow to be able to help their Vet to conqueor the VA legal minefield. PLEASE realize that I am not being critical of any VSO as I am thrilled to see someone even step forward to say I "wanna go at the wire" and at least offer the DESIRE to TRY and help. It is like all of us know or have personal experience with VSO's, some good , some not , but all trying I think. Unfortuneately not every VSO can be a Perry Mason. I have already been thru several VSO's with the DAV group...they are overworked and just too few. I now have a very fine man(VVOA) that is helping me and he has said that I am one of his few vets that really has his records , documents and evidence all in a line and does his research.

Well thats nice to hear but please understand that it was a GROUP effort for me to be able to be where I am. This GROUP effort was from many of you here at HADIT. I still have a huge battle ahead of me as many here at HADIT do, and I will be honest, I have considered at times to give up because it seems so helpless and personally I have had more days when these diseases keep me in bed or in the hospital and I just get tired. If it wasn't for the precious people here and there DESIRE and LOVE and DEDICATION and ENCOURAGEMENT to others , I would not still be here at this site or wanting to fight the VA. Funny thing how this works. That as each of us becomes aware of the need of others around us then we start to try and be a blessing to some other vet that is hurting and lost in the VA jungle and then someone else is pulled to safety and helped. I see that here and have had that kind of help. Its like T-Bird said , "brothers and sister", and it says it all on the opening banner that "noone is left behind. I am sorry to ramble on and maybe not say exactly what I want to or sometimes I am not clear about my thoughts but I have had so much help here and I just want to thank everyone so much because it did help me and I want to help others. BERTA,,,, thank you for your extra expertice and help in private emails. You have been a blessing and have helped keep me from making some wrong moves concerning my claim even when my previous VSO thought he was right. Once again Happy New Year and THANK YOU all. GOD BLESS ...CC.

[Tbird]

you are not being censored at this time, as you can see from your post below and i've explained your status as group a in a previous post.

Yep, seems like dealing-out punishment is the answer for telling how it is, as a personal opinion, freedom of speech denial. Thus, I have again been reduced to GROUP A on hadit.com. Seems a bit one-sided. I did NOTHING to deserve such...... must be a personality conflict. One should be able to speak his/her own mind without being censored by the head Boss. What happened to our democratic processes ?!?! :D

[Tbird]

Oh.... but, yes you did censor me. As a "GROUP A" vet, I cannot edit my own posts or delete my own posts. Is that not a form of censorship/punishment? Hmm ??? :D

editing your own posts and deleting your own posts is a privilege not a right, this is the decision i have made, accept it or find another board or start your own site. let this go and post as you will, continue it and you will be censored.

[Wings]

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Dear 1968 Nam vet, I found my way to Hadit in the 1998. Been a member now for 9 years.

I can tell you that I used to argue the censorship issue many, many times. What I learned, over time, and testing the patience of many all the while, is that a Leader looks for the best for all concerned. Individual rights are second to the mission of helping all vets. When you or I become self absorbed, it takes away from the many. A Leader like Tbird will make decisions s/he sees fit to protect the integrity of the whole.

When you walk into another person's house, you are supposed to wipe your feet. God knows, we've all stepped in it a little now and then and forgot our manners . . . Take it easy. ~Wings

Edited January 1, 2008 by Wings

[john999]

We need to accept the fact that this is T-Bird's board. She created it. The members make it happen as to participation, but it is her show. There was great conflict about things being too loose when we had the disrupters attacking us. If we keep it civil it will work for all of us. We are bound to have disagreements. I got my IU claim in motion due to information I got here at Hadit. I got lots of information and some of it conflicted but I got there. I did not even know what IU was before Hadit. The thing to remember is that no one knows everything.