I am a bit confused but not surprised with the so called patriotism we have in this country. I have seen so many of our Vietnam Vets passing. The pace is so rapid that I have had to get new board members almost annually for my little organization.
In the process of moving the website from Aimoo to Wix
I saw a friend of mine beg and plead to get adjudicated for her widows benefits for two solid months while the VA took back the last check her departed husband got and he lived 24 days of that month. They also hold back a month once approved, so what was that taking it back about? They also had to approve her application for widow’s benefits after he had been declared disabled for over 15 years. Does the VA think that little sum of a compensation her husband received due to unemployable circumstances and suffering from PTSD and other issues was a gift? He and SHE earned that compensation. It just amazes me to think these soldiers pay a heavy price for their sacrifice, not just during wartime but most for the rest of their lives. The broken relationships, the troubled mind, the pain and suffering and that applies to the family as well, all goes along with the war machine.
I am pretty angry that now we have someone to be confirmed with no management skills and if he said 45 was fit as a fiddle, then adjudication for battle fatigued vets from Iraq and Afghanistan is going to be worse. The VA does not need to be privatized.
There is a Choice program alright...Want to know how it works? You pick a doc outside the system and they reject it. A vet has to be approved to what doc they see and when they are seen and only if they are approved by the VA system, even in emergencies. The VA medical center does try and get the vets seen under their umbrella of services but if the vet goes to a private facility, Good Lord the wait is worse and after waiting, gets turned away due to the VA Administration saying, “Oh this doc is not on our list for approval for vet care”. What a crock !!!! I want to know who is getting the kickback on this kind of contracting private care. Contracting out services IS NOT the answer. I don’t see the new appointee making things better but worse.
I am offering my original music to help my small organization. Listen, review and buy a song or download the CD. 99 cents to help a vet is a small price. I need you guys to help me with this project. It is available with links at Kos Katalogue and also on google play and other sites such as Pandora, Amazon, Itunes. I worked my butt off and so did our little girl and my vet. We did this out of passion for vet families.
Comment made last night by me on Kos Katalogue Sunday Diary
Well I haven’t had any sales on my CD and it really is a good CD. I worked on it a long time and proceeds go to Veterans and I really need someone to buy a song or two….Here it is…
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Amanda_Kato_Hey… Helping vets ! My CD now available on line
I fear funds are going to be desperately needed with all these changes at the VA. Vets are dying and many of those are dying from greed at the bureaucratic level. The widows will not be far behind them with all the backlog and BS on a higher political level. Many Veterans from Vietnam and Korea were drafted. Chickenhawks and well connected now are promoting war and not helping these guys and girls and like everything else we are on our own.
I put together some original music and produced it and the so called patriots are not ordering it. .99 cents a song. Really? Even if you don’t like the music, the proceeds are going to disabled veterans. Just click the pic….here ..go to the link listed below or go to the website above.
xAmanda Kato: Hey - Music on Google Play https://t.co/weZfQvMV8U Check out this album - all proceeds go to support Vets and their families! pic.twitter.com/kcK2C9ya73
— Jan Burch (@jan4insight) April 2, 2018
I feel we are the real patriots and do the heavy lifting so I need you to go take a listen and review this CD. It is available online. It is not really country but some contemporary and tropical as well. This is not spamming. This is for veterans and military families who are truly suffering. I don’t get it. People who are scammers not offering anything but huge money grabs can get their greedy hands on donations and such and people who really help have to beg and plead. There are not many organizations out there who don’t give themselves a big salary. Our folks don’t get a salary at all and volunteer from the heart and lucky if they even get their gas or expense covered.
Look at these stats:
Vietnam veterans are dying at the rate of 390 deaths each day. I don't know about you guys, but it kind of gives me the chills.
Recently, a local widow of a serviceman received a shock when the VA told her to return her late husband's VA disability check for the month he passed away. To add insult to injury, the VA withdrew the check, without telling her, via an electronic transfer which resulted in bounced check fees. How can this happen to her, and hundreds of thousands of other surviving spouses across the nation? Why have they been wrongfully denied?
This happened in 09 under Bush...Do we think 45 is going to make it easier? It is still happening.
Milan, 73, served several tours in Vietnam as part of the Army's Special Forces,
"I thought I was a resident of Vietnam," said Milan, who receives 100 percent service-connected disability benefits for high blood pressure, an irregular heart beat and post-traumatic stress disorder. "I knew something was wrong because when the planes flew over to spray for mosquitoes and (the foliage) there was a different smell to it. ...So I had a taste of the Agent Orange."
It wasn't until 1991 that Congress passed the Agent Orange Act that gave the Department of Veterans Affairs the power to declare certain health conditions as "presumptive" to dioxin exposure.
The VA, however, doesn't have an accurate count of how many Vietnam veterans suffer from Agent Orange exposure
Tweet, share, donate, promote and review. It is all needed. .99 cents is not that much. We have widows and veterans right here who need help. There will be more ...I assure you and soon. We cannot let the VA get privatized.