Should Veterans feel bad about being awarded and receiving VA disability compensation for non-combat related injuries?

At a recent forum for VA Benefits in NC, there were over 1000 Veterans looking into issues with VA Compensation. Less than 10 Veterans had Combat Injuries. I'm not saying the veteran should feel bad about collecting VA Compensation but I do not agree with fact they they are eligible for these benefits. I don't know the total numbers of Cmbat but it seems it's one of the major issues in the backlog in treating veterans.

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That would depend, in my case I have a drunken Doctor Sever a bundle of nerves In my left neck causing severe muscle paralysis of the entire upper left torso. I have been through over 30 procedures should try to correct the nerve damage as well as other damages caused by the original damage, such is a spinal fusions that has left me wheelchair-bound. Not to mention I enlisted on the eve of Desert storm with every intention on being an elite warrior as that is my nature, nothing short of the best!! So to answer the question directly yes in most cases yes. Willful misconduct is an entirely different subject and those are claims that should be disallowed.

No! military service is a stressful event in a persons life. change from regular life to military puts shock wave on one's way of thinking and servicing a country that trains you to kill another human being.

there is no requirement for this feeling. scrap it.

I came down with chronic hiccups in 1990 while I was deployed to Incheon Korea. They were persistent for 11 months straight. They went away for about a month they lasted for another two months, than they returned for a couple of weeks and left. I still get the hiccups for several days at a time every other month. I 2001 I retired after serving 25 honorable years. Hiccups cause me to have shortness of breath and it always offset my acid reflex, any advice. Since I can’t carry on a conversation, it slows down my chances to advance. Disability was denied.

But the doctors and regional office sometimes get someone who thinks they have been chosen by the VA Gods to make you feel like crap. The VA ruined my life, said not in budget for MRI on knee, put a brace on and hurt like hell. Went to Ortho Doc, said ordered and fitted for wrong leg take away immediately. The brace was for torn ACL and then fell fracturing ankle. Nightmare since, my story really sucks.

Everyone who are deserving of their disability rating awarded to them by the VA be it combat or service connected or combination there of should not feel bad at all. If the application process was justly done in accordance with current regulations within the VA Disability Administration, all awardees must take this as life source of income if it is the only compensation from the injury sustained be combat or service connected.

No! We were doing our duty for our COUNTRY! THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE...

Hell no.
VA payments are for SERVICE CONNECTED disabilities. Not necessarily combat related disabilities.

You served your country. You deserve the payments. Take them and be proud to have served.

Anyone tells you otherwise, well, just send them our way. We'll Educate them :)