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User ID: 327230 Canada 11/16/2007 10:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | VA REJECTS this guys claim?? AMAZING. WASHINGTON, Illinois (CNN) -- Ty Ziegel peers from beneath his Marine Corps baseball cap, his once boyish face burned beyond recognition by a suicide bomber's attack in Iraq just three days before Christmas 2004. He lost part of his skull in the blast and part of his brain was damaged. Half of his left arm was amputated and some of the fingers were blown off his right hand. Ziegel, a 25-year-old Marine sergeant, knew the dangers of war when he was deployed for his second tour in Iraq. But he didn't expect a new battle when he returned home as a wounded warrior: a fight with the Department of Veterans Affairs. "Sometimes, you get lost in the system," he told CNN. "I feel like a Social Security number. I don't feel like Tyler Ziegel." His story is one example of how medical advances in the battlefield have outpaced the home front. Many wounded veterans return home feeling that the VA system, specifically its 62-year-old disability ratings system, has failed them. [ link to www.cnn.com] The truth will set you free! :)
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User ID: 327230 Canada 11/16/2007 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: VA REJECTS this guys claim?? AMAZING. MODS can you fix the title? I cannot seem to :( The truth will set you free! :)
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User ID: 327230 Canada 11/16/2007 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: VA REJECTS this guys claim?? AMAZING. Never mind lol The truth will set you free! :)
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 293212 United States 11/16/2007 10:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: VA REJECTS this guys claim?? AMAZING. I read this story and saw the picture and it's a goddamn disgrace!
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 209271 United States 11/16/2007 10:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: VA REJECTS this guys claim?? AMAZING. The income derived from a 100% disability rating from the VA is not enough for any one individual to live on, let alone support a family. "Well compensated" should be changed to "hardly compensated". Social security payments to 65 yr. old seniors better VA disability payments. Bush started this war, its time he start taking care of the men and women he is requiring to fight and die for his "just cause". |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 981 United States 11/16/2007 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: VA REJECTS this guys claim?? AMAZING. Sad.
That this country that uses it's men for war won't take care of them properly. Can't fathom loosing ANY amount of brain..and it not be considered.. DAMAGED.
Bullshit. |