Revised VA rules help ex-sailor wake from 27-year nightmare

Revised VA rules help ex-sailor wake from 27-year nightmare
By KATE WILTROUT
The Virginian-Pilot
Published: March 10, 2012
One rainy night in 1985, Navy Seaman Katherine Glover was raped while on duty at a NATO base in Italy.

Ashamed, fearful of losing her security clearance, and distrustful of her male superiors, Glover didn't report the attack.

She says she didn't breathe a word of the trauma until 2002, when she finally told a representative from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The woman helped get Glover into treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. But with nothing in her record to corroborate what happened that long-ago night in Naples, Glover's quest for disability benefits from the VA always ended the same way: denied. Without proof that she'd been raped - or a link between her Navy service and her medical condition - the agency's benefits division had long refused to grant Glover status as a service-disabled veteran.

Last week, more than five years after filing her latest claim, Glover, 59, finally got good news.
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