[Blindvet-talk] informative web site

[LJH]

For upcoming developments regarding veteran's interests, perhaps a visit to 
this website might be of interest to all.

http://change.gov/agenda/veterans_agenda/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <NABlindVets at aol.com>
To: <President at whitehouse.gov>
Cc: <blindvet-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: [Blindvet-talk] Fwd: Fwd: Fw: [VIVN#1556] Vets Fighting Mad


> Dear Mr. President,
> We must  stand fast and keep  this nations promises  to it's  veterans.
> If the article below is true then we are committing a terrible   injustice
> against
> those who pay the price for our freedom , whether  injured  by a  bullet 
> or
> a jump line they are serving this nation. They  expect to be provided  for 
> if
> injured
> and we have promised them  they would not have to worry, just follow 
> orders
> and
> get the job done.
>
> Dwight D.  Sayer
> President,
> The National Association of Blind Veterans
> A Division  of the NFB
> Email - presidentnabv at aol.com
> or president at nabv.org
> _www.nabv.org_ (http://www.nabv.org)
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> ____________________________________
> From: NABlindVets at aol.com
> Reply-to: blindvet-talk at nfbnet.org
> To:  blindvet-talk at nfbnet.org
> Sent: 11/26/2008 9:00:25 P.M. Eastern Standard  Time
> Subj: [Blindvet-talk] Fwd: Fw: [VIVN#1556] Vets Fighting Mad
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> Dwight D.  Sayer
> President,
> The  National Association of Blind Veterans
> A Division  of the NFB
> Email  - presidentnabv at aol.com
> or president at nabv.org
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> ____________________________________
> From: BlindguysRus1
> To:  NABlindVets
> Sent: 11/26/2008 8:40:57 P.M.  Eastern Standard  Time
> Subj: Fwd: Fw: [VIVN#1556] Vets Fighting   Mad
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> ____________________________________
> From: rickyf50 at hotmail.com
> To:  jdmcneil at bellsouth.net
> Sent: 11/26/2008  7:39:34 P.M. Eastern Standard  Time
> Subj: Fw: [VIVN#1556] Vets Fighting  Mad
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> -----  Original Message ----- 
> From: "sceptre"   <sceptresmith at gmail.com>
> To: "VIVetNet"   <VIVN at googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:57   PM
> Subject: [VIVN#1556] Vets Fighting Mad
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>>
>>   Thousand of injured vets are fighting a new battle
>> - - - By Rory   Devine - - -
>>
>> The Pentagon narrowed the definition of a   combat
>> related injury.  As of March, those with  disabilities  incurred while
>> in a direct combat situation would  get more benefits  than those
>> disabled during a training  exercise for example.
>>
>> The Supervisor for Disabled  American Veterans in San Diego calls  that
>> "inherently unfair."  "An injury is an injury, whether it  happened in
>> a war or  whether it happened jumping out of a plane  during an
>> exercise,"  said Jim Galliher.  Galliher feels there  is no greater or
>>  lesser veteran, and he is upset the Pentagon, as  he said, "took it
>> upon itself to redefine the law."
>>
>> The Pentagon  says benefits should be greater for those wounded in
>> combat  than for those wounded during training, or hazardous duty  not
>>  related to combat, or even while being sprayed with agent  orange.
>> Galliher said the differentiation doesn't stop there. He  said  the
>> Pentagon also differentiates disabilities incurred in the   same war
>> zone.  For example, military personnel who hurt   themselves jumping
>> into a fox hole to avoid a mortar attack  during  combat  may  not be
>> classified as having a  combat related  injury because they were not
>> shot or  shelled.
>>
>> In  Galliher's opinion, the Pentagon is making  the change to save
>>  money. "It's a tough economy, let's not try  to win the economy back
>>  on the back of a veteran," he  said.
>>
>> He hopes people will  write their representatives  in Congress asking
>> the Pentagon "to  follow the law."
>>
>> For its part, the Pentagon reportedly says  the change is in  keeping
>> with the law.
>>
>> First  Published: Nov 25,  2008 5:43 PM PST
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