[RobertoinAL]

I’ve got 3 buddies names on that wall. It still pisses me off that there has to be a private company, Wounded Warriors (whom I support), to help Veterans who need help. The VA has never been there for us. Neither has the Federal government.

[Auntie Mame]

“The VA has never been there for us.”

It isn’t recent, either. It’s been this way from its inception. I just read a book, “I’ve Been Only a Shadow,” which mentions, only in passing, how the VA, back in the 1950s or 60s, refused to help him with getting a disability rating. While dying (he had rheumatic fever in the Navy and was denied treatment which damaged his heart), he continued trying to get them to do the right thing. It worked out for the VA, as he died in his early 30s leaving a wife and 4 children, and not being able to work for the last year of his life to support them.

[oh8eleven]

The VA has never been there for us.

You mean it hasn't been there for you? It's been there for many a vet here in Rochester NY for the past 70 years including me, my father, my mother, my father-in-law, and a few cousins, not to mention a few friends.

BTW, a few years ago the top five Wounded Warrior executives' salaries were:

• $604,551: Steven F Nardizzi, CEO (through 3/16)
• $420,905: Albion J Giordano, COO (through 3/16)
• $356,635: Jeremy M Chwat, Chief Strategy Officer (though 9/16)
• $346,542: Ronald W Burgess, CFO
• $338,471: Adam Silva, Chief Program Officer (through 5/16)

Ah, not too shabby.

[allwrong57]

My cousin is one of them who’s on the wall.