I hate to answer a question with a question Gene, but why shouldn't a vet have all the same options available to them that the citizens they went into harms way for?

Off hand I forget the name of the march but it was WWI vets peacefully marching on DC because the government didn't keep their promises to the Vets. General Smedley wrote about it. After many months of peaceably petitioning Congress for redress, DC called out the troops against the Vets. Unnecessary chaos and death followed.

I know of career vets from the Nam era who were coercised in to signing VA benefit wavers if they wanted their retirement benefits.

Agent Orange.

Gulf Syndrome.

Both largely disavowed, and yet there seem to be excessive symptoms.

The gist of this gentlemens situation was the VA disavowed the full extent of his disability. Paperwork was destroyed, paperwork was forged and no investigations of his claims were investigated initially, nor later. In short, because of a law passed in the FDR era, if the VA decided to turn a deaf ear to the vets plight, then he has no further recourse. Which to me is an especially shitty end of the stick offered up by the patriotic flag wavers upon those who carry the flag into harms way.

Perhaps it is just Gene, but at first glance I believe it requires further investigation. Primarily because it matches up with so much I know of our governments actions.

respects