Monday, February 19, 2007
And now the Army Times
The Army Times posted its take on the MedHold fiasco for wounded veterans on Sunday. In keeping with its mission it provides information from the Army's point of view as well as the veterans. It doesn't make the story any better.
when it was time for the Army to take care of him, one of its wounded warriors, Van Antwerp gave up before he even began. Rather than fight for a higher disability rating, he quietly signed for 20 percent — and no medical benefits — saying he knew he couldn’t do better. He inherited his father’s stubbornness, he said, and refused to ask anyone to pull strings based on his dad’s rank. Then his first medical board counselor, the person who would help him make his way through the medical evaluation board system, left. The second, he said, “wasn’t on the ball.”AmericanBlog has a listing of the recent news stories that paint a cruel picture of the treatment of wounded veterans following their discharge from the hospital and into the bureaucratic miasma of post hospital care. But we can all take comfort knowing that the Republicans do love their troops and the moon is made of green cheese.
“The Army is trying to give you the lowest amount of money possible,” he said. “A lot of people are appealing, but I’ll be going to [the Department of Veterans Affairs]. I want to go home.”
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