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My sister has been hammering me to get into the VA for 2 or 3 years. (die hard Democrat)

This kind of thing is why I’ve always refused, despite the arguments.

Everyone I’ve talked to has taken a year or more just to get signed up, when it should be a half hour process, and all have said once they did get in, it was a nightmare.

She didn’t even let up once the problems in the VA became public. I told her when it happened they’ll do just enough to say they did something, and soon as it dies out of the news cycle it will go right back to business as usual.

So what happened? So far one person has been fired as far as I know, until these 4 resigned, nothing has changed, people are still waiting 3 months for an appointment, one vet made a video, he tried to call in to the suicide hotline and got transferred to 5 different computerized answering machines before he got disgusted and hung up...

I knew a guy here locally who was sprayed down with agent orange in Viet Nam, he had cancer, the government refused to admit it, he couldn’t do a a thing about it. So he has cancer, because our government put him in harm’s way, and they refuse to even admit it happened. Much less do anything about it.

This is what we get for putting our lives on the line for our country. I didn’t go to Viet Nam, I would have if had been drafted but I joined the Navy instead, fixed binoculars the whole time so other guys could go out and be targets. But I was worried. A boatload of politicians in DC who wouldn’t fight a war themselves if they had to were plenty willing to send me off to be a target, along with thousands of others who did go or served in support roles, and this is what we get.

Sad...this man was in WWII, a really ugly situation in many cases, I knew a man in Louisiana who was in it too, he had some stories...and they are being treated the same. Terrible.

By July next year I hope we see the whole mess cleaned out and new management in place, people who actually believe in doing their jobs.