Military Service, VA Mistreatment, Losing Battles with Cops and Getting Screwed Again by Mortgage Companies

I don’t know if a person gets used to being screwed over and over again. I sure don’t think so.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - When I volunteered for the Army in 1944, I wrongly assumed that I would be treated like a human volunteer – wrong. We were all treated like peons by our immediate superiors whether they had one stripe or 4 stars. It wasn’t fun getting shot at.

Shortly after I got out of the Army, I got a broken neck. I had no money and I was under VA care for about 10 months. They used an experimental drug on me. They told my mother 3 times “we don’t think your boy will survive”. They even thought they unhinged my brain. Well, maybe so!

Sixty years later I went to the VA for PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, from 3 months in close combat. I was a Battalion Scout, pointman and forward observer. All of these are almost suicide missions. My Mental Health Nurse Practitioner said that 60 years later I couldn’t possibly have PTSD. I have news for her and the VA, almost ALL combat vets have PTSD whether it be slight, rubber room candidate, suicides or murderers. The demons are permanently in our heads.

I have read many newspaper and TV stories about PTSD vets getting in minor confrontations with cops. Usually the vets end up dead. This is really curious. Many cops will complain that they killed someone and got PTSD and are whining and crying that they want to be pensioned off with massive financial benefits. We PTSD vets who have real PTSD are lucky to get any kind of medicine to ameliorate the demons and damned little financial pensions. Of coarse we veterans do NOT have labor unions like the cops. There is something rotten about this system.

I have just read and seen about the Mortgage Companies really screwing the veterans again with about 30% of their homes in foreclosure. In addition, to that about 300,000 veterans are homeless. We are the guys and gals who really saved your civilian butts and left at home a whole bunch of “home stallions” who took care of our girlfriends while we were being shot at.

There are veterans in congress, certainly some of them have PTSD. I have heard that U.S. Government employees have much better medicine and health care programs which the rest of us, including PTSD victims, are paying for.

I don’t know if a person gets used to being screwed over and over again. I sure don’t think so.

Dr. Phillip Leveque has degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and minors in physiology and biochemistry. He was a Professor of Pharmacology, employed by the University of London for 2 years, during which time he trained the first doctors in Tanzania. After training doctors, he became an Osteopathic Physician, as well as a Forensic Toxicologist.

More information on the history of Dr. Leveque can be found in his book, General Patton's Dogface Soldier of WWII about his own experiences "from a foxhole". Order the book by mail by following this link: DOGFACE SOLDIER OF WWII If you are a World War II history buff, you don't want to miss it.

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Earnest Cottrill September 5, 2011 2:03 pm (Pacific time)

As a 68W Combat Medic in the US Army I can say even 60 years later the military still refuses to properly diagnose and treat soldiers for PTSD, I know I am walking evidence. We are disposable warriors and when we become combat ineffective we are discarded like yesterdays garbage. Many people will say, "Its the soldiers responcibility to seek help." Well with all due respect when your unit prevents you from seeking that help to cut the costs to continue a war effort, getting proper medical treatment can be troublesome trust me I had to go awol for 2 years to get the help I needed. I went from a patriotic american to a broken down washed out 26 year old who has lost his faith in humanity.

I can be contacted at trellisane@live.com

Stay Strong Vets,
Earnest Cottrill

Editor: Earnest, thanks so much for dropping by.

LanceThruster March 1, 2011 8:54 pm (Pacific time)

Dr. Leveque ~ Thank you for your sacrifice. It fills me with shame to see just how it is "rewarded".

My friend’s son was with Marines 1/5 for the fall of Baghdad. At his welcome home celebration, I asked him about his experiences in a combat zone. The first words out of his mouth to me were, “We killed people for no reason” and went on to describe some of the things he did as per the ROE as well some of the things he saw. The descriptions were enough to make me a bit queasy, as well as ponder what it might do to the person who actually witnessed them. He’s since been diagnosed with PTSD but for some BS reason is denied disability because of whatever arbitrary % the VA assigns his condition.

Though I became draft age in ’75 and actually toyed with the idea of enlisting (feeling if military service could ever be considered “safe”, that would not be too bad a time to serve), but knew I would have to take the oath and commitment seriously and did not trust the government to refrain from ordering me to kill people that did not deserve killing.

Sincere regards,

LT

Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. ~ Unforgiven

"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation." - George Washington

Editor: Cool name Lance, thanks for your cool words about Doc, see you in the lineup...

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