[Vision2020] [Spam] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government

[Sue Hovey]

Well no, it's not a wonderful example of anything.  But I'm not sure whether 
you are referring to Walter Reed Hospital or the VA, neither of which is a 
health plan.

Sue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government


> It is just a wonderful example of a government run health plan!!
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
> To: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful 
> Government
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> I agree.  This last wave of neglect at Walter Reed only highlights what we
> have been hearing for the past couple of years.
>
> Sue
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
> To: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spam] [Vision2020] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful 
> Government
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>> Sue
>>
>> I agree that something is wrong with the way we care for veterans. I get
>> solicitations for support from six of seven organizations that help
>> veterans. I support some of these as I can. However I thing that is it 
>> the
>> responsibility of the government to provide our veterans with top notch
>> care. It is a disgrace that they have to ask for  private funding.
>> Roger
>> -----Original message-----
>> From: "Sue Hovey" suehovey at moscow.com
>> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:50:56 -0700
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> Subject: [Spam] [Vision2020] Shameful Neglect and a Shameful Government
>>
>>> >From a Letter to the Editor in West Hawaii Today: (March 12, 2007)
>>>
>>>   My former husband recently passed away after losing a 40-year-long
>>> battle against the effects of the Vietnam War.
>>>    Mike suffered from Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, which physically weakened
>>> him, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and acute alcoholism that
>>> mentally crippled him.  The former caused him to finally be unable to
>>> wield the framers hammer that had always provided his living.  The 
>>> latter
>>> made it impossible for him to be in the company of the family that he
>>> loved.
>>>    Towards the end of his life Mike finally sought the help of the
>>> Veteran's Administration.  This was the act of a desperate man as he'd
>>> always said that he never wanted another thing from the U S Government.
>>> The long lines and endless paperwork were more than he could tolerate 
>>> and
>>> he died alone at a campsite in the snow.
>>>   I traveled to Oregon with our grown children to take care of Mike's
>>> funeral arrangements.  He wanted to be scattered on "his" mountain.
>>>    The one thig that he had counted on the government to do for him was
>>> denied.  The Veteran's Administration will not cremate one of their own
>>> unless they are receiving monetary benefits, are an officer, or if the
>>> veteran actually dies in one of their hospitals.  Mike would have
>>> received benefits if he could have held on for another six months and 
>>> his
>>> claim had been settled.  It would have been settled in his favor because
>>> his type of lymphoma is a direct result of the Agent Orange he had been
>>> showered with at age 18.
>>>   Shame on the United States government.  It killed this man twice--once
>>> in Vietnam and again on a lonely, snowy mountain.
>>>   While the veterans did not bury Mike, they did provide his son with a
>>> full-sized United States flag.  A flag of loosely woven fabric and
>>> labeled with a large "MADE IN CHINA" tag.
>>>
>>> Lisa Angelo Wyrick
>>> Kailua-Kona
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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