William Terry Higgins

[Pete53]

An old Member of Hadit who really battled VA and a fierce advocate of all Veterans passed yesterday. I feel sad as he asked me to copy and paste an article he wrote on Face book a couple of weeks ago and I never did. He was 56. If you use Facebook you can see him if you do a search using William Higgins.

Rest in Peace Amigo

[Berta]

OH NO!!!!!!

Terry was one of the first vets who welcomed me to hadit.

Although he dealt with service connected schizophrenia , he certainly knew what he was talking about regarding VA case law.

And many of you might recall , he had a fabulous sense of humor.

When the blue tooth earphones first came out-many years ago -the ones you wear on your ear, he told us how he started to use one to reply to the 'little people'; in his mind while in public

and people thought he was talking to someone on the phone and didnt look at him like he was nuts.

But if he was in a store with a long check out line, he wouldn't use the ear phone, instead he talked back to the little people as loud as he could- because the checkout line usually parted for him to go first!!!!!!

I learned a lot from Terry's interpretations of many court decisions.

He certainly did sue a community type nursing home on behalf of veterans and posted the actual case and news articles about it on the net.

This veteran was a true advocate, always thinking of other veterans, and exemplfied the fact that-no matter what type of mental disability a person has, they arent crazy and they are often highly intelligent.

He was extremely proud of his loving children too and posted their photos at hadit many years ago.

Gee they might even be adults by now.

Terry is truly a fallen warrior who helped many vets deal with VA 101.

This is very sad news.

[john999]

I think his kidneys did him in finally. Terry was a guy who had all the odds stacked against him and still kept his human dignity. If not for his disabilites he could have been Perry Mason. He had guts like when he would pull fire alarms at the veteran's home to get attention.

John

[carlie]

Terry was a strong opponent of the VA.

The VBA put Terry through decades of pure hell.

[jbasser]

I really liked Terry. He would tell folks to go to any federal court and throw yourselves onthye mercy of the court.

I got a major league Kick out of his antics.

Anyone remember when his truck was undercut by the sports car in the VA parking garage.

That one was too hilarious.

Anyhow, there has been too much death int he last couple of weeks that is close to home. I hope it calms down.

Terry will be missed.

Basser

[JR Reihs]

Wow,

I am saddened by this. I never met Terry, yet his rage against the man (VA) was priceless. I got many pick me up's from his postings and as was said, he was very VA smart and really did not care what it took to make things happen as JBasser hit upon.

Another "Brave Soldier" laid to rest that will live on through Hadit immortality.

Anyone who may be in contact with his family, please send our sympathy as they are in our thoughts.