[Vision2020] [Spam] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government

[Pat Kraut]

It is just a wonderful example of a government run health plan!!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
To: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government


I agree.  This last wave of neglect at Walter Reed only highlights what we
have been hearing for the past couple of years.

Sue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
To: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Spam] [Vision2020] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government


> Sue
>
> I agree that something is wrong with the way we care for veterans. I get
> solicitations for support from six of seven organizations that help
> veterans. I support some of these as I can. However I thing that is it the
> responsibility of the government to provide our veterans with top notch
> care. It is a disgrace that they have to ask for  private funding.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Sue Hovey" suehovey at moscow.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:50:56 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Spam] [Vision2020] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government
>
>> >From a Letter to the Editor in West Hawaii Today: (March 12, 2007)
>>
>>   My former husband recently passed away after losing a 40-year-long
>> battle against the effects of the Vietnam War.
>>    Mike suffered from Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, which physically weakened
>> him, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and acute alcoholism that
>> mentally crippled him.  The former caused him to finally be unable to
>> wield the framers hammer that had always provided his living.  The latter
>> made it impossible for him to be in the company of the family that he
>> loved.
>>    Towards the end of his life Mike finally sought the help of the
>> Veteran's Administration.  This was the act of a desperate man as he'd
>> always said that he never wanted another thing from the U S Government.
>> The long lines and endless paperwork were more than he could tolerate and
>> he died alone at a campsite in the snow.
>>   I traveled to Oregon with our grown children to take care of Mike's
>> funeral arrangements.  He wanted to be scattered on "his" mountain.
>>    The one thig that he had counted on the government to do for him was
>> denied.  The Veteran's Administration will not cremate one of their own
>> unless they are receiving monetary benefits, are an officer, or if the
>> veteran actually dies in one of their hospitals.  Mike would have
>> received benefits if he could have held on for another six months and his
>> claim had been settled.  It would have been settled in his favor because
>> his type of lymphoma is a direct result of the Agent Orange he had been
>> showered with at age 18.
>>   Shame on the United States government.  It killed this man twice--once
>> in Vietnam and again on a lonely, snowy mountain.
>>   While the veterans did not bury Mike, they did provide his son with a
>> full-sized United States flag.  A flag of loosely woven fabric and
>> labeled with a large "MADE IN CHINA" tag.
>>
>> Lisa Angelo Wyrick
>> Kailua-Kona
>>
>>
>>
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