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Jackpine Radical

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3. I was exposed to Agent Orange in 1967-68.
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 11:19 PM
Oct 2014

Had a double coronary bypass in 1992. Got a 10% disability rating in 2010 and should have appealed it but didn't. Went through a hospitalization for congestive heart failure last February & submitted all my hospital records. No word as yet, but according to their published criteria & information in the records, I should be rated at 60%.

After many years of psychological pain, I finally acknowledged to myself that I have PTSD. I filed in 2011. I've been through 2 evaluations since then & the final resolution is still hanging.

I turn 70 next week. If I die before any of this stuff is resolved, they will save a bundle on me, particularly on back payments.

My 3 bullet holes & hearing loss were deemed insufficiently debilitating to merit compensation.

But hey, wow, now I got a memorial. I can hardly contain my excitement.

I guess I should just be grateful I don't warrant inclusion with a lot of my buddies on the other one--that black one with all the names on it.

Wonderful. Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #1
I wish I could make the government do the right thing marym625 Oct 2014 #2
I was exposed to Agent Orange in 1967-68. Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #3
This memorial is from the American people marym625 Oct 2014 #5
My rant had nothing in particular to do with Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #9
I hope you get resolution soon marym625 Oct 2014 #12
I'm so sorry you lost your father, Mary pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #11
Thank you marym625 Oct 2014 #13
Southside pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #14
My dad grew up at 76th and Ellis marym625 Oct 2014 #15
We left Chicago for SoCal when I was young pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #16
I'm sorry about you losing your dad, especially so young marym625 Oct 2014 #17
Absolutely. Get them the help they need NOW. My son-in-law has been pending for 5 years - he has jwirr Oct 2014 #10
Jesus Christ marym625 Oct 2014 #18
I honestly do not know how they do it since most of them are vets themselves. The whole department jwirr Oct 2014 #19
I'm sorry. marym625 Oct 2014 #20
No need for you to be sorry. You are working to get this mess straightened out by joining us here on jwirr Oct 2014 #21
We need to do more than be here on DU marym625 Oct 2014 #22
Well we could talk with out congress people and write the president. Other than that I am not jwirr Oct 2014 #23
Have to be a huge campaign marym625 Oct 2014 #24
Sorry marym625 Oct 2014 #25
Excellent review today by WaPo Art and Architecture Critic Philip Kennicott: pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #4
That is quite a review marym625 Oct 2014 #6
The photos are impressive pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #7
Yeah I didn't want to post too many marym625 Oct 2014 #8
There also is a project to establish a Gold Star Mothers National Monument at Arlington Cemetery pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #26
That's a beautiful statue marym625 Oct 2014 #27
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