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RE: "Sole surviving son denied health benefits pos... - 4/18/2008 5:14:34 PM

thornhappy

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

This is one oddball type case, a type of case (as FHKY pointed out) that the rules should have made an exception for long ago but has slipped through the cracks until now. It made the headlines for political reasons, I'm sure. It makes certain people feel really good about themselves, and allows them to beat their chests and say "see? see?"

But the far more common cases are people who are perfectly healthy when they leave the military and who use VA hospitals and myriad other benefits all their lives for free.

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ORIGINAL: FangsNfeet

And people continue to ask my why I never enlisted.

Not one, but of about 7 such cases.

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RE: "Sole surviving son denied health benefits pos... - 4/18/2008 5:40:51 PM

Alumbrado

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I'd love to hear more about these 'myriad' special benefits vets are supposed to be getting for free... Last I checked, those who were perfectly healthy were at the bottom of a very long waiting list to even be admitted to the VA hospital system, VA loans cost money, the GI bill was now a savings plan for service member's monies, and so forth.

(myr·i·ad

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1.
a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.

2.
ten thousand

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/myriad

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RE: "Sole surviving son denied health benefits pos... - 4/18/2008 5:49:50 PM

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Special benefits my butt. >.>

I gave up a long time ago trying to get the VA to look at my leg again. I snapped it and my pelvis during a rappelling exercise, and it's still messed up three and a half years later. On the plus side, the doctors did perscribe me this- for my broken bits. Thanks Doc!

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RE: "Sole surviving son denied health benefits pos... - 4/18/2008 9:07:09 PM

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They discharged him because of the Sullivan ruling and then penalized him for discharging him? Totally unacceptable.

The fighting Sullivans were five brothers who petitioned the then Secretary of the Navy to allow them to serve together. Their ship went down and all were lost.

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