Semper Fi and America’s Fund dedicated to serving combat wounded, ill, injured

It’s a full-time job itself just trying to get help from VA. Health care is easy but that’s not what any of us are talking about. We see and hear your comments “thank you for letting us know” and “we’ll make sure we address that issue”. It’s like when you tell your teenage kid to take the trash out when he goes to work because I have one leg and it’s hard for me and they say the words, “ok” and you know they hear you but it never gets done. Soon you realize they are just telling you what you wanna hear to make you feel better but nothing ever gets resolved. That’s pretty much how the VA is.
76% of people trust the VA??!!!?? What a joke. Don’t send us surveys about our healthcare and make it look like the VA is doing a good job. Let us put it into our own words about what we need. Of course you’re going to say everyone trusts the VA when the surveys are made to do nothing but praise our healthcare workers. They aren’t the problem, it’s the VA benefits department and getting help and fixing our homes so we don’t tear up our doorways with wheelchairs or getting vehicle help because we can’t work and my truck was totaled by my new driving son and all I had was liability. But deny me of everything the VA says they have to offer help with home, auto, better wheelchairs etc. I could go on and on but the sad thing is I don’t expect anything to come of it. I’ll get a response saying “thank you for letting me know how you feel” and then nothing.

Ray, you can get pre approval on the EBenefits website. I did. Good luck.
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Pamela Gonsalves

I am a Vietnam vet who was diagnosed with high risk prostate cancer in June of 2017. Due to the Radio therapy given me for eight weeks through august to October of that year, I am impotent, erectile dysfunction due to the radial therapy, according to both the oncologist and urologist here. On the Ebenefits page that dysfunction is shown, but I was told I did not qualify because of the statute of limitation, (one year from the time a VA letter was sent to me).

The problem is where I live. I live in Colombia and from November of 2018 to the present not one piece of paper mail has reached me. Suffice to say that the Colombian postal system, regarding international mail is non-existant. By the time I knew of all my missing mail from the VA, I had been written of, but after a phone call to the VA, informing me of all that had transgressed since November 2018, I had an appointment with the urologist here, and emailed the disability benefits questionnaire to the VA, explaining the problem. The VA subsequently gave me a 20% disability benefit for the voiding problem connected to the disease but did not acknowledge the erectile problem. I do not know why unless it was thought that another disability benefit would be too much.

I am 75, my wife 34, and we have two daughters, aged 11 and just-turned 7. I always kept – and still keep – meself fit and had no problem with erections until the prostate cancer came along. I have made two appeals, the last one (made in September 2021), but both have been rejected. I am not complaining about the VA, which I consider has been quite decent with us; I simply do not understand how the erectile dysfunction was never addressed, when I have explained the situation twice and it is clearly shown on the ebenefits page.

Thanks for keeping us aware of things out there
For is to help are selves.

For veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan……?
Sooo….once again Viet Nam vets are excluded because…..??? What? We aren’t ‘real veterans’? Our injuries, illnesses, and deathbeds don’t really count? Or is it because we aren’t the ‘new age’ woke-‘tard warriorettes and trans-sexual activists that HollyWeed celebs and lib-tard political hacks find so glamorous and enchanting? Or is it, perhaps. because we still do not ‘provide stimulating press releases’ or the attention getting ‘self-promotion programing’ that is mandatory for the current crop of lamestream news and daytime TV brainless talking-heads? We’re still the veterans that are of 3rd tier relevance to the ambitious entertainer or political wannabe. What’s so laughable, is that I personally know of new-age vets who collect thousands of dollars every year for PTSD when the only ‘action’ they saw was a crappy little rocket exploded 3/4 of a mile outside their 4,000 acre compound…..ooohhhh, they must have been soooo scared. Yet, VN vets who saw continuous action as infantry for 13 months in-country are still denied PTSD treatments, or Agent Orange claims. Keep up the great work, you must be so proud of yourselves.