Bva Status Of Claim

[john999]

I called the BVA and was told that my claim has been decided and will be shipped out to me next week. This is my CUE claim. My lawyer never got back to me, so I called the BVA ombudsman. I can't believe I will win this thing. It seems to outlandish that the VA would admit they made an error that will cost them retro from 1971. Who knows? I have the evidence, but I think the BVA will kick the can down the road. They will find some reason to mininterpret my CUE and decide that I was asking for a reweight of the evidence. Me and my lawyer made it plain that is not what we were saying.

[Testvet]

John sometimes they do own up to being wrong it does not happen often but it has happened I remember the first time I got a reporter from the The State to listen to my story about the human experiments was back in Feb 2005 when Knight Ridder was doing a national story on 4 veterans that had been fighting with the VA for decades and they had their claims finally approved one of them was a WW2 pilot who had been blinded in one eye but who had memorized the eye chart and BS his way thru the flight physicals so he could keep flying despite not having proper depth perception you need both eyes for depth perception but he managed to keep flying and then spent 60 years fighting the VA over his claim for being blinded during WW2

the reporter used my experience as the local veteran story here in Columbia the VARO hated it and did everything they could to ignore the human experiments and did until the then Chairman of the Senate VA Committee caught them lying in a letter to him about me taking ill on 10 July 1974 and being returned to Fort Lewis when my records plainly showed I left Edgewood Arsenal on 22 August 1974 at the end of the scheduled TDY trip for myself and the other 9 men sent from the 9th ID to Maryland for that test window.

The VA will fight the issues as long as they can using every dirty little trick they can and eventually when pushed into that corner where they have no other choice they will finally pay up of course they pay no interest and if they can rate it at 10% that is what they will do and they dang sure won't apologize

and as you well know the decision may very well be another denial and your lawyer may end up in federal court over the issue before it is finally settled I just hope you live long enough to see that day I don't know who could teach who how to screw people more Postal service managers or VARO employees I think it would be pretty close either way I don't know if they pick natural azzholes to decide VA cases or to be supervisors at the Post Office but they seem to find people that excel at their positions

John I do hope it is settled in your favor though you deserve it........

[john999]

TestVet

You know when you first started posting about human medical experiments I thought of the movie" Jacob's Ladder". I did not know anything about Project Shad. No one else here knew anything either I don't think. If you screamed to the public about what the army did to you most people would shrug because they just can't get into that frame of referrence. What I have learned over the years is that governments lie. When I hear accounts from vets I sometimes think "oh, this could not be true", but it could be true.

What the VA did to me they did to thousands of others. The difference is that my doctor went to bat for me. He wrote the report the VA asked for and then deep sixed. After the nation decided that they did not want to fight the war in Vietnam the military dumped thousands of troubled members as cheaply as possible. It was all about the money. Bury the dead and get rid of the walking wounded. Do it cheaply.

[Pete53]

When Test started posting I believed him but doubted that VA would ever own up and grant benefits. I truly rejoiced when Test won.

[Testvet]

Pete and John the support I received here at Hadit was basically the ONLY support I had besides my wife and my VA shrink and he doubted me until I got the file from Edgewood after I filed the FOIA request back in 2002 right after I found Hadit and people here told me how to go about getting the documents I would need.

I am sure you all remember all of the SOs that flat told me I would never win this claim and to give up especially the heart disease part of it that the VA would never approve it I had to change theories in mid stream and give up trying to prove the exposures caused the damage and went with the CAD and HBP being secondary to my already SC PTSD and that path led to victory 7 years later and I know I would never have won without the support that kept me from just "giving up" in frustration the VA wins so many claims in that fashion they just beat people down to the point they quit and walk away.

I am still more impressed with the veterans who won his Agent Orange claim at Fort Gordon Ga now that was a "miracle win" to me. There have been a lot of people here with a lot of help over the years Alex, I can't remember the guy who lived near Atlanta and was online a lot Flip, etc to many names that I just can't remember anymore the stroke left me with a really bad memory but it saves me on books and movies 6 months later they are all brand new to me again thats good because I really like W.E.B. Griffen books all of his different story lines and NCIS and Bones lol

I don't know if many of the veterans know just the fact that there is such a strong support group here that is better than any "group" at the VA and the effects it has on many of us and how it keeps us with the will to keep fighting the VA "hamster wheel" every once in a while we find a way to jump off with a win it wouldn't happen without the support available here from Carlie, Berta, James Breckinridge (sic) JM Basser etc even Paladin years ago sometimes the pie fights were worth it it helps to let off steam once in a while the stress gets to all of us there have been many long drawn out claims here, Ruby's, Josephine's, mine etc, a few CUE claims few of which get approved but not because they were given up on

the greatest asset this place has is the support we give each other and each win is a joint effort none of us win them by ourselves.......

Edited August 20, 2010 by Testvet

[john999]

Betty's claim and Terry Higgins story were the things that turned my head around. If their claims and their experience was valid then I believed that a veteran who is determined can win. I still believe that a vet can win almost any claim if there is any evidence at all. They have to wait and they have to pursue it. When Berta said she sent her husband's ashes in as evidence I thought to myself "here is a person who is going to beat this system". I think VSO's get jaded and burned out because they see so many claims. I know that most lawyers don't want to touch claims that don't have very good chance of winning. So the difficult claims are still in the hands of the vet. He/she has to find that evidence. After 40 or 50 years that is tough. It is easy to sit in judgement of others when you have yours. I have done it. You have to hear the whole story. If I had not ended up in the VA rubber room back in 1972 I would have never gotten service connected because I got a PD discharge. This was a fluke. If I had waited five years to file I would have been denied to this day.

[Berta]

You guys have said it all-

we can NEVER EVER give up.

We have to take the best care of our health as we can too-

I ain't dying with any claim in progress

JUST FOR SPITE!

Terry was unusual to say the least. I think he was the vet who had a site called vasucks.com decades ago.But I remember hm well from hadit.

I miss him because he taught me a lot.He proved that mental illness has Nothing to do with intellect.He was SMART.

He had many problems due to his schizophrenia but got that service connected and I am sure many thought he never would.

Mike -right around the time you started the 7 year struggle you had, my former vet rep told me I would never succeed on the claim I had just filed. Then the POA org revoked my POA without good cause a few years ago. I appealed that at BVA -I dont know if that appeal is still there.Maybe I should check with the ombudsman.

I was fed up with those dopes anyhow but there is a legal way to revoke POA and they didnt follow the regs at all on that-which shows how little they know abot 38 CFR et al.

But I was alsolutely delighted to inform this state org's director and their attorney when I won and reminded them they lost credit for an award totalling just a little under 6 figures. The *&^%$#$^& dopes.

Since than the local poa office has acquired much better vet reps.