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

no

There are veterans receiving disability for non-service injuries. Tell them that is not legal.

I USED to feel bad about filing for disability. At one of my first civilian jobs I was working with another former military guy. 24 years retired 1SG MP. And he could tell I was more broken in 8 years than he was in 24. He gave me the contact info for a VA claims representative.

Absolutely not. Injuries (and death) can occur during training activities. Anyone who has served this country should be entitled to disability compensation.

WI was refused compensation for not being in combat, lost hearing working in data prossestor while serving in France

No! If they served, they served.

I've gone on with quote and verse about what happened to me, in a non-combat situation, just putting up with the fall out, from Vietnam, in West Germany and being a 20 year old Veteran...and you know what? No body, wants to hear it, but find a brother, who's been down the same path, on the street, and you will have a conversation, for about an hour. Funny, there is a book written on it (1972) Army In Anguish by The Washington Post and nobody in The VA, or any Veterans Support Group, nor Professional Psychologists...never met a one who read it yet!

An injury that happened to you while in uniform during combat or non-combat is a service-connected disability. Nothing to feel bad about, you earned it!

They should "NEVER" hesitate to file for and receive service connected compensation. Many of my family back to the civil war have been in combat in one place or another. When my time came I was assigned to the Nike missile system and it was not used in combat. I was seriously injured in the line of duty and am receiving comp. Nothing wrong with that, it is deserved as it is with many who were injured outside of combat. I have seen hundreds who were injured outside combat and many of these injuries are life threatening." if you were injured, please file for compensation, you have it due you".

I would say yes. You are still serving your country in places that may not be a combat zone or that the country is not in an active war. I would say that during the cold war in some duty stations the potential for conflict, and on occasion skirmishes did occur, did exist. So yes a compensated disability would be appropriate for an injury that occurred while at sea, in the air, or on the ground.