OPINION: VA Scandal 2014

I don’t know why anyone is surprised about trouble at some VA facilities. We have World War II and Korean War veterans passing at a quick rate, many using VA faculties in their final days. Every Vietnam veteran with boots on the ground was exposed to Agent Orange, possible prostate cancer, millions, and we’re all at that “age!”

And now we have many thousands of men and women who served in Afghanistan and Iraq using the VA system at an unprecedented rate because of a good campaign specifically aimed at getting new veterans to file claims for “service connected” injuries upon return from deployment, to get in the system! And then add in for bad measure corrupt VA employees endangering veterans through their greed!

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Visiting the VFW, with all due respect

Binder told me how the crew had been warned not to drink water from the evaporators — the device that turns seawater into freshwater — unless the ship was 10 miles offshore, because of the risk of contamination from Agent Orange, the jungle defoliant.

Binder is pre-diabetic and has other health issues that he reckons stem from his two tours in Vietnam. He's as keenly interested as anyone in getting the VA health system fixed, because his own experience on entering that bureaucracy years ago was a thoroughly unhappy one. To prove himself eligible for benefits he was made to recall details of his service that were best forgotten.

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