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| Having just returned from the end of term and goodbye run of the Veterans Disability Benefits Commission in Washington, the time that we have all been waiting for has arrived. The press conference for the Final Report to Congress is scheduled for this Wednesday on Capitol Hill and to be held by Commission Chairman, General Terry Scott. The ratification hearings for the House Veterans Affairs Committee is scheduled for October 10th, and I hope to be sitting in the Gallery as General Scott testifies before Congress. The Senate hearings are set for October 17th. Thanks, celebration, kudos, hugs, smiles, and Atta Boy's! were all over the room as Commissioner Don Cassiday made an emotional tribute speech for General Terry Scott was we all rose out of our chairs with cheers and applause on our feet for the good General who brought the victories home for Veterans everywhere and tilted the shift of scorn against the broken, cracked, out of whack VA disability system. The report is around 400 pages long, with 114 recommendations of "fixes" to repair the broken system, including Presumptive statusing and the national health registery recommendation for the Fort McClellan Veterans. There have been hate-campaigns and Rat Squads all over the internet who have flooded the emails of many with disinformation, lies, lack of rational comprehension, and not anything close to the truth in how this end of term session went. It did not accept or receive any new official business. It was merely a public "sit-in" while the Commissioners inserted the clarifying and fine-tune language into their narrative texts. Those of us who knew what the session was, merely came to say goodbye, give hugs and kudos to friends made along the way, and to celebrate the victories for a job well done by all. These photos, and more to share later on, are to put to rest the myth that any of these Commissioners were either slouches or idiots who needed life itself explained to them. They were all smart, prominent, up and coming, DIGNITARIES who deserves all the thanks and respect that Veterans can possibly muster. I was proud to be an Activist among them, and I shared the #2 lead Activist spot with my counterpart, Col. Mike Parker of the Gulf War who carried the Public Comment microphone for the entire 2 year duration of the Commission public hearings. There are too many photos and moments of highlights to show here in this one posting, so look for more later on in this column. Here is the short list of victories brought home: ** the all new Presumptive service connected system driven by the Institute of Medicine ** changes to treatment, compensation, and diagnosis of PTSD ** setting "quality of life" as the new gold standard for process and compensation for veterans disability ** the full revamping of the entire VA Rating system to the International Classification of Diseases etc. ** The announced recognition of the newest chemical exposure group, the Fort McClellan Veterans. ** The incompetencies and inadequacies of VSO's and VA Raters and the public damnation thereof. ** The end of the ban on concurrent receipt and it's related issue of Offset to Survivors ** The end of Garnishment on Veterans Comp Pay to pay non-Veteran wives in state claims for "alimony". The spousal injustice vote was a HUGE victory for Veterans everywhere. As the Commission now makes it way through Congress to it's day of finality and implementation, I can say that this was one of the hardest advocacy projects I have ever worked on, and it was made even more painful and difficult by Rat Squads on this internet who themselves did not even attend the sessions. Putting all of those liars behind now, please join with all of us here at Vets For Justice in our moment of spotlight and celebration for the success and accomplishments we extracted from these sessions for national Veterans everywhere. Be proud, this is a moment of victory for all, and it came right here from Vets For Justice. A special thanks goes out to CEO Billy Ray Kidwell who gave us a website home to launch from and to bring you the truth as this Commissioning process went along. I hope you enjoy these pix from the last and final goodbye run in Washington last week. Sue Frasier national stakeholders activist VFJ staff blogger Albany NY Army Signal Corps Vietnam Era This message has been edited. Last edited by: McClellanVet, |
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