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[Berta]

From Paul Sullivan, attorney VCS

"VCS on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, January 3 VCS was interviewed recently by Byron Pitts for the CBS News program "60 Minutes." CBS reporters are investigating the unreasonable and unconscionable delays nearly one million veterans now face obtaining disability benefits from VA. CBS has scheduled the broadcast for Sunday, January 3, 2010. We encourage you and your friends to watch this important news broadcast."

[Wings]

From Paul Sullivan, attorney VCS

"VCS on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, January 3 VCS was interviewed recently by Byron Pitts for the CBS News program "60 Minutes." CBS reporters are investigating the unreasonable and unconscionable delays nearly one million veterans now face obtaining disability benefits from VA. CBS has scheduled the broadcast for Sunday, January 3, 2010. We encourage you and your friends to watch this important news broadcast."

Berta, What is "VCS". Thanks! ~Wings

[JamesBreckenridge]

Berta, What is "VCS". Thanks! ~Wings

"VCS" means "Veterans Canteen Service". I think what they meant was "VSC" which is "Veterans Service Center", which is the branch of the VA that I work for.

[Testvet]

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Thanks for that info! I suppose the pay is slightly higher dishing out admin decisions, than canteen sloppyjoe's hehehe ~Wings

Paul Sullivan is the head of Veterans for Common Sense the group that filed the PTSD lawsuit last year

[Berta]

The reason I clarified the info here-on Nehmer is that the Nehmer decision ( the first major class action case that succeeded for vets and widows against the VA)

is that when the VA fails to honor this court order and stipulation they and/or their individual employees can be sanctioned for failure to follow Nehmer.

I was steps away from filing sanctions against them but that was diverted because of other extraordinary steps I has to take in the whole month of November.After the second erroneous award letter from my VARO-I went way over the RO heads.

Nehmer has been the most important facet of VA case law for me since 1991.I helped local vets who fell into this AO class action case and hopefully other AO vets here and at other sites. But I had no dog in the fight.I just loved the legalize of Nehmer and still study it.It altered the lives of many vets and their dependents disabled due to their exposure to this devastating weapon of mass destruction aka Agent Orange.When I worked at a vet center there was no Nehmer then and we never talked about Agent Orange much .In those days Vietnam vets were still trying to recover from horrific homecoming experiences they had after spending a year or more in Hell.The VA had just determined that PTSD was a real disability.Nehmer doesnt change the pain our grateful nation caused to millions of these veterans.It does rectify the disabilities they have due to AO.

I even expect the AO disability presumptive list to continue to grow.

But one thing Vietnam vets don't have is lots of time to wait for that.

Links to Nehmer I and Nehmer II etc are all in the AO forum.If we get generalized questions there on Nehmer that I am not sure of answer- I will call up the NVLSP Nehmer lawyers and get the correct info posted.

[Mcafee]

Hello All Hope All Is Well

I think Its Fantastic that news media puts this information out there but if it is not acted upon whats the point and nine times out of ten this is not! everyone says thats a shame or chee wow to bad and goes away YOU NEVER SEE A FOLLOW UP FROM 60 MINUTES ON ANY VETERANS ISSUES OF RESOLVE I HAVE YET TO ENTERTAIN SUCH RESOLVE?

I find it absouloutely a disgrace to the Men and Women whom Have served brave and proud to the Country for which it stands!!!!! Berta Keep on Keepin on God Love You for your Service .

[broncovet]

Correction: VCS stands for "Veterans for Common Sense", a pro Veteran group, who is apparently representing Veterans in this lawsuit. In this context, VCS has nothing to do with "Veterans Canteen Service", which is basically a company that operates stores in VA hospitals. I am not even sure if there still is a Veterans Canteen Service, I think they may have changed their name, or at least they have at my local VA hospital.

The store in my local hospital is aafes...Armed Forces Exchange Service..but was probably occupied previously by Veterans Canteen Service. Some Vets still refer to the little stores in VA hospitals as a "Canteen".

Edited January 3, 2010 by broncovet