Posted on 02/08/2016 1:28:18 PM PST by servo1969
He was wounded in a foxhole in the Philippines in 1944.
"There were four guys in there, and two guys got killed," he told the station. "And then the other guy, he got his leg... Oh, hell. I guess he lost his leg. It was slit in four places where a grenade hit between us and I got one in my leg."
Limpert said he waited until now to apply for benefits because he is down to nothing.
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His application included plenty of documentation, including discharge papers, the names of his foxhole pals and the X-ray of his wounded leg. The proof also included his Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars he received in the Pacific.
Fox 2 reported the VA letter asks Limpert to submit affidavits from fellow service members, most of whom are dead, or the location of the hospital where he was originally treated.
"There ain't no hospital," he told the station. "We were in the jungles."
The station reported that Limpert's military records were apparently among the millions destroyed in a massive fire in Overland, Missouri, in 1973.
The station also reported that it sought comment from the VA in Washington without success.
Limpert has now turned to his local senator for help in the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Some bureaucrat needs to be transferred to Northern Alaska
I’ll second that idea. This is just wrong.
I believe his story. However, what has taken him so long to go to the VA? That is the first place I go to when ever I move different locations. Plus everyone knows about the fire so you would think the VA would be a bit more compassionate about that. I still find it strange that after 60 years he is now just going to the VA.
He sounds like he has always taken care of everything HIMSELF, self sufficient, dependent on no one. It states he gave up his house, car, stocks and bonds to care for himself. He should be commended for this, not criticized.
I’m 75 years old, honorably discharged from the Marine Corps. I have NEVER used the VA because I believe that the care should go to those more needy and more brave than I.
I once had a neighbor who, though obviously severely crippled due to WWII injuries, worked his entire life as a cardealer. He never received anything from them other than his initial 2 years of hospitalization and rehab. In fact, when he died, we had to help his widow apply for burial benefits at the funeral homes insistence. She said that, after recovering he just wanted to put it all behind him and considered himself blessed to have survived to come home unlike many of his friends..... A rare individual!!
Too bad that it was military records that burned. In a fair universe, the VA bureaucrats would be burned.
You’re a good man.
Thank you for your service.
May God keep you in good health.
That is cool. And thank you for helping his widow.
quote “including discharge papers”
I would think that alone would be enough.
No. Please, no. We have enough already.
His records were most likely destroyed in the fire at the St. Louis records storage facility. Unfortunately for him he waited this along to seek assistance. My late dad who retired from the ARMY in 1963 fought against the VA since I can remember and until his death in 1990. Those years between the mid 60’s through the late 70’s were always over the lost records.
He needs to seek help from the DAV or other similar organizations that have folks there to help him to understand what he is going through.
That is wonderful. Apparently this guy thinks he needs to the help from the VA. I don’t begrudge him of it as he earned it. He just waited too long and it is obviously becoming difficult to prove he is who he said he is.
The fault lies in all those people who claim they are a veteran and find out they lied. The last two years it is an almost epidemic and now that you can’t be charged, they’re will be a ton more.
As long as political hacks, like Michael Michuad, the Maine Congressman that came out publicly as a sodomite while running for Governor and lost, can get these soft comfy no work VA appointments when they not longer have an elected job, nothing will change.
So? The VA asked me to provide proof that I was in the military as well. It does that for all veterans.
And yet the same government wants to allow people to vote with NO proof what so ever!
Common va delay tactic hoping vet will die before they are forced to help him.
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