VA Declared Veteran Dead, Then Called About Follow-up Appointment

UPDATE VA's letter offers sympathies for death of veteran who's very much alive
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I’m Not Dead, Local Veteran Tells Veterans Affairs 
KFSM News 5
BY DILLON THOMAS AND ZUZANNA SITEK
JANUARY 14, 2015

The condolence letter sent to the Fales is dated Jan. 8, 2015, but Fales said he got a call from the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks on Jan. 12 asking for a follow-up doctor’s appointment.

FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM)- According to a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs sent to James Fale’s wife, he’s dead, even though he was the one who opened it.

“When you’re pronounced dead, and you are the one opening the letter, it isn’t really a bad thing,” James Fales said. In the letter, which you can read here, the VA extends its deepest sympathy to Dorothea Fales after her husband supposedly passed.

Fales is a disabled army veteran, who served 11 years in the military and retired as a sergeant. He receives treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and an ankle injury at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville. read more here