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VA sends $4,000 bill to triple-amputee Purple Heart recipient after he spoke out against Obama
Poor Richard's News ^ | November 6, 2013

Posted on 02/28/2014 7:28:03 AM PST by grundle

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To: Eric in the Ozarks

No surprise...my late brother-in-law (career Army combat engineer) was exposed directly to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam. Before he died in 1988, he filed a claim with the VA. Took years, but his widow finally received benefits almost a decade later (she passed away in 2012). My brother-in-law was a longtime smoker, but the VA couldn’t rule out the possibility that Agent Orange played a role in the cancer that eventually claimed his life.

Don’t know what options your cousin’s family has at this point, but I’d encourage them to keep fighting, if possible. The VA is a maze on its best days; too many dubious or fraudulent claims seem to sail through, while others (like your cousin’s) are rejected.


41 posted on 02/28/2014 11:39:58 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: grundle

It drives me absolutely crazy that liberals don’t understand that this is how government-run institutions operate, and have operated, since time immemorial. I’ve known this since I was 17. What’s wrong with people?


42 posted on 02/28/2014 2:13:40 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Doogle

Thanks for the link.


43 posted on 02/28/2014 2:45:54 PM PST by grundle
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To: NTHockey

...and “SSS”...


44 posted on 02/28/2014 5:48:07 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: grundle

Sorry, but I have family members who work for the VA and they tell me that the VA has “equal oppurtunity screw-ups” all the time. When I ask them “what do you mean by ‘equal oppurunity screw-ups’,” they respond, “The VA screws everyone equally regardless of race, creed, religion, or whatever [yes, I paraphrased the comments in quotes.]


45 posted on 02/28/2014 6:04:20 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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