<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">As a disably retired Army veteran (with a substantially documented service-connected disability), I feel that Mr. Castillo's unethical attempt to collect disability from VA to be fraudulently criminal.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Courtesy of <b><i>Stars and Stripes</i></b> at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/go-tammy-go-1.227955">http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/go-tammy-go-1.227955</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">--------------------------------------</div><div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "></p><h1 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 28px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 7px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">Go Tammy Go!</h1><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">WASHINGTON – It might be stolen valor, but … well, you decide.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Watch this exchange, between Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and IRS contractor Braulio Castillo, who made a disability claim last year for an ankle injury he suffered at a military prep school <i>in 1984</i>, thus entitling him to a lucrative contract with the IRS worth as much as a half-billion dollars.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Duckworth, who lost both legs in 2004 in Iraq, grills Castillo on his injury. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">"I'm sorry that twisting your ankle in high school has now come back to hurt you in such a painful way,” she says. “Yeah, my feet hurt, too. In fact, the balls of my feet burn continuously and I feel like there is a nail being hammered into my right heel right now."</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The Federal Times reported Tuesday that Castillo, owner of a computer company, injured his ankle in fall 1984 during his year at the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School, but would play quarterback and linebacker the next year at the University of San Diego, citing a 157-page report Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which held a hearing on the contract Wednesday.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The report said high school football players recruited to play at West Point sometimes enroll in the prep school for a fifth year of high school to “redshirt” and prepare to play college football. Castillo’s injury happened during an orienteering exercise, and his nine months at the prep school represent the entirety of his military career, according to the report.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Duckworth, as you can see, was angry but measured.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">“Twisting your ankle in prep school is not defending or serving this nation, Mr. Castillo.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">No word on whether legislation is forthcoming – or possible – to keep this sort of thing from happening again.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">-------------------</span></p><p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee, showed little sympathy for Virginia businessman Braulio Castillo when he testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Castillo won a contracting advantage with the IRS reserved for disabled veterans after claiming a sports injury from his days at a military prep school. Nancy Cordes reports.</span></p></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:02CE4036-1D8E-4F9F-B189-7FA1A2119F81" id="02CE4036-1D8E-4F9F-B189-7FA1A2119F81" width="728" height="421"></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRMpw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRMpw</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">--------------------------------------</span><br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></body></html>