The present Veterans Administration is the most pro-active one in my lifetime, lets keep it that way, as it always should have been! The Countries Responsibility is to Fully Fund!

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!

Prior too this present Executive and Veterans Administrations and just touching on the problems:

Army Times Oct. 16, 2008 - VA claims found in piles to be shredded

CNN iReport October 25, 2008 - House Vets' Committee To Probe VA Shredder Scandal

Tampa Bay Times Oct 27, 2008 - Hundreds of VA documents improperly shredded, review finds {Tampa Bay Times search page and series of articles}

CBS News February 11, 2009 - Veterans' Claims Found in Shredder Bins

And more disturbing in relation to even before and through the early years of the Afghanistan, quickly abandoned missions of, and Iraq occupations, this:

ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
"DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War."

Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by this Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!


America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people" - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

These present wars have yet to be paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficits rising started before 9/11 and continued with same for the wars. But especially in the early some six years of extremely little was added to the Veterans Administration budgets by those Congresses, and since obstructed by same war rubber stampers, as to the long term results of War, DeJa-Vu all over again. Keeping the VA under budgeted causes problems and of many grow worse, which costs more to correct much more, which is the goal of those seeking to privatize Government Agencies as they attack the people of and which was created by their own incompetence and ideologies, but doing those served will!

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan" - President Lincoln




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Monday, June 27, 2011

Another 'Stolen Valor' for His Personal Gain {?}

Was record exaggerated?

AMERICAN LEGION OFFICIALS PROBE ALLEGATIONS
William R. Barbour Jr. of Auburn wearing a gold Navy Seabees combat warfare badge several years ago. The badge is second from the top. (SUBMITTED PHOTO FROM 2005)

June 26, 2011 - American Legion officials have launched an investigation into allegations that William R. Barbour Jr. of Auburn, a former state commander of the Legion and veterans affairs official of the Massachusetts National Guard, exaggerated his military record.

Several veterans associated with the Auburn Legion post, of which Mr. Barbour, 61, is vice commander, say Mr. Barbour, a former enlisted man in the Navy and Air Force, claimed in their presence that he had been an Air Force lieutenant colonel, and that he frequently appeared in public with a badge worn by naval officers.

“I've heard him say he was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force,” said Lawrence J. Corbin III, treasurer of the Legion's Chester B. Tuttle Post 279 in Auburn and veteran's agent for the town of Auburn. “When you start representing yourself falsely for personal gain, that's when you start to cross the line.”

The Auburn post's junior vice commander, Dave Peckham, said he saw Mr. Barbour wearing the gold Navy Seabees combat warfare badge several years ago and that Mr. Barbour recently told him he had been a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force in Alaska.

“We confronted him about it,” Mr. Peckham said of the insignia. “He said ‘They told me I can wear it.' ” {read more}

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Posted by James Starowicz at 3:22 PM

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  1. Got a two guys in the R.I. Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association who wear the same Sea Bee Combat Warfare Specialist badge. The badge came out in the 90's and these two frauds got out of the Navy in the 70's. They still wear this badge which they never earned even though they were told more than once. The Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association was also told about these frauds and did nothing .

    Here is one of the posers and the badge he never earned.

    http://imageshack.us/f/38/cvmapopeye.png/

    BTW - The gold badge is for officers and the silver is for enlisted

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  2. How many of those veterans in the R.I. Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association are really combat veterans? They are war veterans but 60-70% are NOT combat veterans. Most like the state rep "GIZMO" never went outside the wire of the green zone in Iraq. Yet he was the one to refuse membership to a Vietnam vet who earned a Combat Infantry Badge in Nam. He had Vietnam vets terminated from the R.I. CVMA. He shamed a now deceased Vietnam era vet in front of the membership and terminated his membership. He forced a Gulf War combat (CIB)veteran out of the R.I. CVMA chapter and he is nothing but a fobbit claiming he is a combat veteran. If this is not stolen valor I do not know what is. What exactly does this R.I. CVMA do to actually help veterans while posing as combat veterans?

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