Raters

[Charleese]

Hi everyone,

My husband received a cal from RO asking him if he has anymore information for his 1958 claim for early effective date. He told them NO not at this time.

My question is does this mean if they deny him, and if he gets a hold of more information that he cannot send it to them, even with a NOD?

Also, she said she was giving the file to the raters. Does this mean that he will be getting a percentage rating of some sort out of this claim, or does it mean that he can be denied? If he is going to be denied why pass it on to a rater?

Thanks in advance for your response.

[Charleese]

Hi, no we do not live in Virginia. My husband moved from there in the 60s and came north. We live in Connecticut. No we do not work with an SO. I have been working my husband's claim. Ever since he went from 0% to 10%, 20% to a total of 60%, he refuses to get an SO. Especially now, since they are looking at his 1958 claim. My husband suffers from depression and has a hard time explaining himself to strangers. He was just recently diagnosed for depression by VA doctor, who stated that he may be suffering from PTSD. We told her that we wanted him to be treated for the depression first to see if that would help before we would consider PTSD. My husband was not in Vietnam, he was in the Korean Conflict/War. I believe he was a parachute rigger, (don't quote me, and I cannot ask him now because this is one of his off days), and they would fly over and he saw a lot of dead bodies in the water. He has flash backs and sees people when no one else can see them. This has been going on for years and I finally got him to keep his appointment with VA physch recently for depression. The VA in Stamford, CT recommended that he see one in West Haven, CT. She gave him medication for treatment and wants him to go to Pain Management classes. As far as his records burning in fire, NPRC and VA both say that they were burnt in fire. If anything this is probably what they will state if they deny him. However, we sent them all his medical records that he got from Lackland Air Force which details his operation and medical condition in 1954, as well as his medical records from private doctors and VA doctors since 1954. He is constantly in chronic pain for left knee injury, as well as diabetes, right knee, left shoulder pain and bilateral carpal tunnel. I have yet to put a claim in for these conditions, which would be secondary conditions, because we are trying to wait and see what they will do with this claim. We don't want anything to hold this claim up. I hope this answers your questions. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm sorry to state that I was wrong in citing the above. Today was one of my husband good days, and what I stated about him flying over water seeing dead bodies was wrong. He was a parachute rigger. The dead bodies he saw was when he was in North Africa, and they were of people who he served with while on base. There were several accidents on the base and these were people who he knew and saw get killed. He has flashback of them. Sorry I gave you the wrong info above. Thanks!

[Guest elizabeth]

Hi everyone, I'm sorry to state that I was wrong in citing the above. Today was one of my husband good days, and what I stated about him flying over water seeing dead bodies was wrong. He was a parachute rigger. The dead bodies he saw was when he was in North Africa, and they were of people who he served with while on base. There were several accidents on the base and these were people who he knew and saw get killed. He has flashback of them. Sorry I gave you the wrong info above. Thanks!

we had almost the same problem since 1948 to 1956 my husband was in air force and navy he was on the uss wasp the night it sunk the hobson in 1978 th opened a claim va states no records found his smc state records were burnted in fire in 2002 we got the files from va all his records were there va had lied to all vets on the fire medical records were lent out to va;s around the country before the fire you can check this out on st louis fire web page but i might have something that will help all vets i live in new jersey i have a letter that john mccour decetor of nj ro wring to my congressman stating he is sorry it took him so long to answer the letter but he had to wait for the records to come from st louis yet every where in my husbands letters state records burnted in fire no the dector made a big mistaked he is in charge of newark not only is he stubit but he signed his name as well i am sending all i wrote to you to the newspapers i hope this will help all veterans who were told their records were burnted i will be glad to send a copy of this letter if you e-mail me and give me a adress to send it now we all have proof from the decotor of newark stating he go my husbands records you can use this letter for proof of your claim to all va all over the country that va lied to vets JOHN MCCORS letter will back you up my husband did get 100 in 2003 however we are going back to 1948-1952-1978 all proof was always there ELIZABETH