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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Servicemembers Survive the Heat of Battle Only to Face the Cold Bureaucracy of the Veterans Affairs

Stephen Fisher joined the United States Marine Corps after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. After three tours in Iraq and surviving three roadside bombs, he suffered nerve damage, vision loss and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among many other injuries from his service.

But when he returned home to civilian life, he left one battle in Iraq and began to fight another against the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) bureaucracy attempting to receive healthcare he needed. Fisher filed his first claim in September 2007. Since then, the VA has repeatedly dragged its feet because Fisher couldn’t make all his review appointments for his claims due to working a part-time job as a police dispatcher. His fight for benefits continues.
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3 comments:

  1. But we can send billions to fake relief agencies, homo/tranconfused knuckleheads and every other scum on the planet..
    JD

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  2. so, he wants disability from the VA BUT he won't reach out to get it. I used to file a claim, go to an appointment (with multichoice dates) and received a disability rating. Couldn't be easier. 100% is @ $35,000.00 a year. The problem here isn't the VA.

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    1. Well apparently you don’t go to the Syracuse VA. They lose records, pick and choose. Don’t know of a single American Veteran Doctor there.

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