[GH-SC]Ryctor
04-12-2009, 05:30 AM
This (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30168352/) fucking disgusts me....
Prisoners of war suffer in ways most veterans don't, enduring humiliating forced marches, torture or other trauma that may haunt them long afterward. In partial recompense, the government extends them special benefits, from free parking and tax breaks to priority in medical treatment.
Trouble is, some of the much-admired recipients of these benefits apparently don't deserve them.
There are only 21 surviving POWs from the first Gulf War in 1991, the Department of Defense says. Yet the Department of Veterans Affairs is paying disability benefits to 286 service members it says were taken prisoner during that conflict, according to data released by VA to The Associated Press
And the really sad fucking thing is that this could all be caught if the VA and the DOD would just talk to each other.... instead of letting these pieces of shit steal from actual deserving veterans.
Prisoners of war suffer in ways most veterans don't, enduring humiliating forced marches, torture or other trauma that may haunt them long afterward. In partial recompense, the government extends them special benefits, from free parking and tax breaks to priority in medical treatment.
Trouble is, some of the much-admired recipients of these benefits apparently don't deserve them.
There are only 21 surviving POWs from the first Gulf War in 1991, the Department of Defense says. Yet the Department of Veterans Affairs is paying disability benefits to 286 service members it says were taken prisoner during that conflict, according to data released by VA to The Associated Press
And the really sad fucking thing is that this could all be caught if the VA and the DOD would just talk to each other.... instead of letting these pieces of shit steal from actual deserving veterans.