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I'm a member of VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and DAV (Disabled American Veterans.) Unfortunately, everything in the article is true. I absolutely salute President Bush, but on this one he's wrong. Very, Very Wrong!

I just received both my VFW and my DAV monthly magazines. The reports were terribly disappointing. The case for 100% care is being carried forward to the Supreme Court.

It gets worse. Imagine that you become disabled at General Motors. You're able to continue working because it's just a 40 or 50 percent disability. To cover your disability they give you money to cover the extra medical expense per month. You finish out your 30 years at General Motors and retire. You go to get your retirement check like the other guys and they have deducted nothing from their check, but they have deducted from your check the value of the disability check they give you. In effect, at retirement they started charging you for your own disability and recouping it from your retirement check. You'd go ballistic.

This is ALSO what they've done to the military for years. They won't permit you to receive disability and military retirement at the same time (concurrent receipt.)

However, if you had gotten out of the Army after your accident or injury, you would have immediately started receiving the disability payment. You could go to work the very next day for the Government Bureaucracy, even the Dept of Defense, and get that check every day you worked for them. Then you could retire as a civil servant after 30 years working for the ARMY and then when you retire you could get BOTH the disability and the retirement check.

Retire from the military, though, and you cannot.

And they've reneged on the life health care promise. So, in effect, if they had any excuse in the past for not giving concurrent receipt, now they have none.

Broken promises. Bush is wrong not to sign off on both of these.....at a minimum, he should sign off on one of them.

I think there is a difference between defending the policy, and defending the right of the adminstration to decide on the policy, not the courts. That's what Bush is doing here. What the eventual poicy will be remains to be seen.

"Broken promises. Bush is wrong not to sign off on both of these.....at a minimum, he should sign off on one of them."

You Hit The BullsEye!

Please answer this one question...are you retired military with 20+ years of ACTIVE DUTY?

Your bitching doesn't seem you did. Sometimes the fine print is important words to read.

Mustang sends.