ptsd When Will The U.s. Government Kill The Last Vietnam Veteran?

[allan]

When Will The U.S. Government Kill the Last Vietnam Veteran?

FOR 40 YEARS VIETNAM VETERANS HAVE BEEN TREATED AS PARIAHS BY "UNCLE SAM"

NEW VETS BEING USED AS AN EXCUSE TO ABUSE THE LAST SURVIVING VIETNAM VETS

By Gordon Duff, STAFF WRITER

When Vietnam veterans started coming home, legless, PTSD ridden and suicidal after having suffered higher casualty rates than any war in our history (Marines lost nearly as many dead in Vietnam as WW2 with 1/4 as many serving), they faced a VA managed by powerful service organizations with huge numbers of WW2 and Korean War veterans in control of policy making. Vietnam vets were denied membership in many of these groups and consistently were denied proper treatment for their wounds because of prejudices supported, in large part, by veterans themselves. Read Full Story

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Edited January 6, 2009 by allan

[john999]

All my closest friends from Nam are either dead or dying from AO. It gives me sorrow to think how funny and alive they were when I knew them thirty-seven years ago.

[tssnave]

I would like to suggest that we all email Dr. Phil and let him know that there's a lot more to the VA than just the new vets. When I watched the utube on vawatchdog.org I wanted to scream at the little screen when he implied that all the backlog is from the young vets - NO IT IS NOT - IT IS THE REST OF US THAT THE VA DOES NOT PRIORITIZE THAT HELP CREATE THAT BACKLOG !!!

I wish Dr. Phil would truly take up veterans' disability cause and do a segment on each era of the forgotten warriors.

- A segment on the newly discovered but 17 years denied Gulf War Syndrome

- A segment on AO issues to include the blue water navy

- The forgotten Korenan vets and their issues

- Any WWII vets that never got compensated

- All of us who served between these times who are still entitled to VA benefits if we meet the 3 requirements of inservice event, continuation/current of treatment, nexus but are reguarly being denied benefits because the VA doesn't follow its own rules (oops, sorry, that applies to all vet catagories).

I don't understand how it is that such a small segment of veterans is given priority and why our vet organizations are not raising a huge stink about it.

Maybe if we all emailed Dr. Phil asking him to look at the broader picture he would take up our cause.

Thanks,

TS Snave

[Cavman]

I want to apologize to Dr. Phil. I got him mixed up with Phil Donahue. Can`t believe it. Lol. Could Alzheimers be secondary to PTSD? Lol.

Cavman