Haven’t I been hurt enough?

Haven’t I been hurt enough? July 2010

V.A. Is Easing Rules to Cover Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

“Those rules were neither fair nor sustainable.”
“Veterans of every generation”
“Veterans who have previously “borne the battle” for our nation.”
“Veterans and wounded warriors with the care and benefits they’ve earned”

Thanks for 43 years of hell in the head.
Kick me a few more times while you are at it.

The Quotes, Articles and New Federal Rule cut my heart out with hope.
This travesty of justice, painful insult, and slap in the face is unconscionable.
Stab me with a spoon and keep on twisting it around just a bit more.

Federal Register fine print.

“Congress has provided that, once a decision on a claim for Veterans Benefits becomes final the claim will not thereafter be reopened or allowed.”
“VA will not apply this or any help to claims that were finally denied before the effective date of the rule.”
In short FU

Catch 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, and now 77.

Catch 11: I enlist in a war that is antidemocratic and in violation of the Geneva Convention. The War is escalated with “Gulf of Tonkin Perjury” and then illegally propagated through several presidential terms of various United States presidents. Multimillion Vietnamese and 60 thousand Americans are slaughtered under false pretences. The perjury includes bombing Cambodia and a multitude of insidious false reports.

Catch 22: Post war no PTSD help is not offered to Vietnam Veterans and we are to blame for what I still do not know. Eventually by about a decade after the end of the Vietnam Conflict more Vietnam Veterans had killed themselves than were killed in action and Veterans made up a majority of the homeless population. PTSD was undeniably acknowledged and minimal efforts to help were made available but not advertised.

Catch 33: Some 30 years post War I finally breakdown and end up in a Veterans Administration Health Care Hospital. I am broken and supporting myself and children with a paper route and earn a below poverty income but every week after PTSD therapy I receive another bill from the Veterans Administration and threats about collection. The Veterans Administration denies responsibility for my PTSD, discriminates against me (Lowest Priority) because I am not service connected and consequently I wait at the back of the line until everyone else is assisted regardless of my pain, trauma, and or broken ribs. So I apply for veterans health benefits and still remain denied.

Catch 44: Meanwhile back in the War I had I earned a “Top Secret Clearance” in the Army Security Agency and consequently I am still to this day denied access to any documentation about my Vietnam Service and related war stressor experiences.

Catch 55: As a result of my Patriotism and excellence I am therefore denied service connection because I have no documentation as to my Vietnam service missions. Not only don’t I exist but no information is available to me about my Company, undercover designated 138thRR.

Catch 66: Eventually I go outside the Veterans Hospital and through brain scans prove my hippocampus is abnormally small and that is a consequence of continued severe stress as discovered and reported by the Veterans Administration but not commonly acknowledged by the VA. I supply the adjudicators with agreement from several prominent doctors and physiologists that my PTSD reactions are a fingerprint of my Vietnam War activity but still my case is not reconsidered. In-fact the very ruling now proclaimed as neither fair nor sustainable was unjustly dismissed.

Catch 77: Now I am denied justice because the case was closed and “Congress has provided that, once a decision on a claim for Veterans Benefits becomes final the claim will not thereafter be reopened or allowed.”
“VA will not apply this new rule to claims that were finally denied before the effective date of the rule.”

“This nation has a solemn obligation to the men and women who have honorably served this country and suffer from the emotional and often devastating hidden wounds of war,” Eric K. Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs BoaSting (BS) about his achievement.

“Every American who has ever worn the uniform must know this: your country is going to take care of you when you come home … Our nation’s commitment to our veterans – to you and your families – is a sacred trust.” President Obama
“We’re not going to be satisfied until every veteran who has fought for American has a home in America.” President Obama

Catch 88: The Condemned house the VA has me shackled to now that’s another story altogether.

What your opinion?
JimRaab

Veteran Iraq and Vietnam Suicide Rate

Please Help Us.
War! What War? As a veteran of the Vietnam Conflict I would like to mention that I pay to stay at the Veterans Hospital and pay for each visit. The general public at large is unaware of the truth and assumes the best. By definition to get treatment at the VA hospital a veteran must be wounded during a time of and involved in a "War". Furthermore the War injury must be witnessed, verified, and documented. A claim for service connection must be filed and approved by the adjudication board.

I wonder how many new veterans will be as I am "only a veteran in name, not in services provided, or benefits, or medical treatment."

What a dirty trick Bush played on the veterans calling an end to the War before it was over. So clever he was in his vest jacket on that aircraft carrier pronouncing victory to the world. Under that smirk he was screwing the rest of the “would be” veterans.

By the time the boys fighting now figure out what hit them it will be too late as it was for me when I found out that my “Top Secret Security Clearance” meant sacrificing my benefits because my records would not be available and without documentation I would not be eligible for treatment or benefits.

I am taking a new medication for my PTSD and no longer thinking of killing myself. Keep in mind that more VietVets killed themselves after the conflict than the 58,000 that were killed during the conflict. More IraqVets are killing themselves now each day than are being killed each day in Iraq.

Most importantly if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD do not wait for help. The VA Hospital is not interested in quality of life only the impression it makes on the public. Find a doctor that will prescribe Merida (sibutramine HIC monohydrate). It was originally found to help in weight loss. It has now been found to have some very beneficial side affects particularity in my case the repair of PTSD. Ask me on the blog if you have any doubt. Only you can make a difference. Only you can save a life. Those Veterans killing themselves today put their neck on the line and now its time for you to save them from the head injury. PTSD is an organic head injury. It is verified with a brain scan as an abnormality in the hippocampus regain of the brain.

For further information, problems with your skeptical doctor writing the prescription, HMO not filling the prescription, or the notion that saving a life is not worth the risk of trying a weight loss pill for a few days to check it out and possibly saving a life, Please Call Doctor William Annitto, MD, MPH, Psychiatry at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center located in Newark NJ.

I am trying to get the information out to the public and doing my part. I could use some help. I am open to suggestions.

By the way if you are interested in helping Veterans Please Do Not Donate Money to Would Be Organizations. Stop by your nearest VA Hospital and any Social Worker at the hospital will be glad to help you help one or two. They are all in need of your help. The real kind works best.

Thank You, Jim Raab http://jimraab.blogspot.com/