Hey Milwaukee Vietnam Vet needs "brothers" to step up

This Vietnam vet has been in a fight for his life and his wife has been ready to do whatever she can for him, but they need your help. He has to go for an appeal hearing in Milwaukee from Phoenix. His wife asked for prayers but that's what you're for. Listen to God calling you to answer this plea from a brother in need and the wife who loves him enough to fight for him. They are ready to sleep in their car to make the trip they cannot afford and she is in pain already.

Vietnam Veteran Needs your prayers please
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Posted by Gypsy on June 8, 2009


I bring this humble request to those of you who understand the phlight of our service men and women of so many "conflicts and police actions" - the ones that no one had the guts to call a "War"....

SEVEN long years ago, Jimmy and I started a journey by applying for his service connected combat disability benefits. YES seven long years ago - it has been in one stage of appeal or another since day one it seems.

In the beginning "they" (the powerful little boys and girls who hide in cubicles in the Veterans Admin Regional offices) said - why yes Mr Soldier - you have 20% hearing loss - we'll give that one to you and yes we agree you do have Type II Diabetes, and yes we agree you do have PTSD - however - since you were never STATIONED in Vietnam - you weren't there so your duty there can't possibly count. Your military personnel records say that you weren't there. So no service connection for you - sorry.....

So we spent nearly a year - getting together the records THEY said didn't exist - and proved he was in Vietnam, that he was shot down over Cambodia, that he did receive lots of the stressors that are "necessary" for a Veteran to get his PTSD benefits granted - one such piece of evidence - how about his Vietnam Combat Service Ribbon with TWO bronze stars - denoting each tour there.... oh that one isn't enough is it? Okay so lets add that his unit was the only one during the Easter Offensive to get the Presidential Unit Citation w/ "V" (for Valor) in a combat situation??? Will that one work for you idiots in your cute little cubicles that weren't even born until 1980 something - do you even KNOW where Vietnam is?

So we got another letter back - okay so we have to give them both to you - but we will do so at the absolute lowest ratings possible. Now that "we" have thrown you a few crumbs will you please go away and leave us alone?

Well hell no we aren't going away... and so it all began. Now on Wednesday June 17th at 1030 am we finally have our day in court - before the Board of Appeals for the Veterans Appeal.

My beloved Veteran has been treated for and is still under psychiatric care of an entire team of PTSD specialists - and has been for the past seven years. These past two weeks (since we got notified that the hearing was on June 17th) my hubby has been off the charts with every negative emotion one can imagine. He even thought about calling it quits and saying - "NO let's not do this" and I said - OH NO! Not only NO but HELL NO. 87% of the combat veterans who apply for service connected disability for PTSD either give up or stop fighting after they get a pitence from the VA. Usually it is because they do not have the where-with-all or fortitude any more to continue to fight a government establishment they have long since quit believing in.

I asked him to please - please - put aside all of his reservations (asked him to TRUST me one more time) and take this to the final play in the game. After all - can't win the game if you walk away with the ball in your hand. Like I told him - it's like the lottery - can't win if you don't play. If we don't "play" THEY win. Then you will have gone through all of this for nothing! You will never forgive yourself and you will wonder until the day you die - what if....

So reluctantly he is going with me (if he doesn't show then they toss the case)......we will be leaving on a shoe string and a prayer on Saturday to drive to Milwaukee from Phoenix - because they set the hearing in Milwaukee. click link for the rest