For those who bothered to attend
the Boston session of the Veterans
Disability Commission on August 3,
there was little mystery about
why Veterans in New England
are receiving nothing in the
line of Justice while an entire
mountain of Vet non-profits and
dysfunctional VSO's all stand
around with their hands in
their pockets whistling "Dixie" !!

For those of us die-hards who
crawl to the Commission sessions
if we have to on our hands and
knees, the Boston Town Hall
was a carefully rigged and staged
event, not even holding a candle
to the scrutiny that is so
typically in the air at the
full-member sessions held
monthly in Washington. This
was not even in the same league
so please do not confuse the
2.

What happened in Boston was
a travesty to all Public Comment
periods everywhere and should
never be allowed to happen again.


The fact that Boston was not
only home to the lead Commissioner
Navy Commander Dennis McGinn,
but is also home to Chairman
Terry Scott as Director of
National Security at Harvard
College was perhaps the most
obvious reason for the scripted
and orchestrated "show", because
once Dennis McGinn opened the
session with such absurd and
ridiculous remarks as "....veterans
for the most part, are happy with
the VA Comp & Pen system....",
then every VSO who took the
microphone after that, also Parrot-
Headed this same phrasing with
little deviation from the
McGinn script.

Starting with George Gerdon
of the American Legion, I was
frankly flabbergasted at the
bungling and inexperience of
his short, vague, statement
to nowhere which amounted to:
"....We are opposed to all
changes to the Comp & Pen
system that limits or restricts
entitlements or reduces benefits
to the Veterans..... we only
support those changes which
improve the system....

This is the voice of the entire
New England American Legion, and
to have it bungled on such a scale
as this was a stunning development
and here lies the problem all along
with VSO's and their self-absorbed
laziness.

They are of the idea that
they are under no obligation
to work hard and keep up with
high-literacy action or to be
informed on the latest trends
and developments effecting the
outcome of VA deception, perpetration,
and ploys which are often disguised,
masqueraded, charaded, and a
needle in the haystack when it
comes to delivery of services
and benefits to Veterans.

They were so preoccupied with CYA
to make sure that their own
VSO's continue to run as business
as usual, that in the end, no
issue of controversy or confrontation
was raised in the faces of this
Commission authority. A golden
opportunity to make significant
change was effectively squandered.

The Commission, does NOT fill
in the blanks on behalf of
Veterans with this broad and sweeping
brush of a vague interpretation
of American Legion's lame and
sorry request which is sure to
yield nothingness, as sure as I
am sitting at this keyboard.

With an entire truckload of
available flaws and inadequacies
of today's existing Comp & Pen
statute under 38 CFR Parts 3 & 4,
the American Legion could not
submit NOT ONE! single
effective, specific legislative
request to this authority group
that would make life better for
those half million Veterans who have
been trapped for entire lifetimes
at the bungling and incompetent
hands of the VSO's.
My My What a group!!

Nobody can accuse the American
Legion of being on top of things
now can we?

And who, exactly, wants to leave
it in the hands of either the
Commission or the VA, to let
THEM interpret what is or what
is not an "....improvement..."
to the existing system??

Consider the new Veterans attorney
law which does nothing but rob
poor Veterans blind to pay large
full legal fees to attorneys
who are already driving a Lexus
around for cars, and are sitting
in posh office addresses, while the
phoney and baloney Congressmen and
Senators who are behind the new
law, are all touting it as the
next big rescue for sick and ailing
Veterans!!!

Yeah Right, American Legion!
This truly does sound like the
kind of environment where we
will just leave it in the hands
of official Washington to sort
out what is and what is not
an "impvrovement" to the VA
Comp & Pen system. I can just hear
the dead Veterans rolling over
in their graves as they shout
damnations to the American Legion
from sea to shining sea.

Yes, American Legion does
not get it and they really do
need to go home and find something
else to do! 5 minutes in Boston
has convinced me of it.

To add insult to injury, and
this is about the part where
I was getting ready to get up
and walk out of the session....
4 state offices of the Vietnam
Veterans of America got up
to the microphone and Parrot-Headed
the American Legion.

Fools leading other fools is
how it all went down. Not
a single brain was found to be
among them.

VVA-New York, VVA-Connecticut,
VVA-Rhode Island, and
VVA-Massachusettes all lined
up and entered into the record
that they opposed any changes
to the existing Comp & Pen System
unless it "improved" the system.

The compelling question
here is this --- Have you ever
seen a time when the VA did not
try to cut back budgets to the point
of turning Veterans away from the
Hospitals, and STILL have them try and
argue in our faces that it was an
"IMPROVEMENT" to our system???

Give me a freaking BREAK !!!!
At what point does the American
Legion and VVA grow a brain, does
anyone really know ??

Yes it was a true Kiss-Fest for
the VA and it's puppet commission
at Boston, as the ball-less and
the empty heads from Shangri-La
took their place in history as
sealing the fate of DOOM
for all Veterans over the next
few decades until the next
reviewing Commission is appointed
into place.

Does the words SELL OUT mean
anything to you ??