CPT Rosa,

Sir I appreciate your feedback. I am really trying to get my mind going on a steady track and accomplish things like dreams and goals.

I am very aware of other veteran stories.

I embedded a Federal Amicus Lawsuit Monk vrs Shulkin, I was asked by National Veteran Law Groups, to use my story, as an example of the worst VA cases.

I consider how the mind is programmed. I have many years of being focused on basic acknowledgement of support by the va for just a va homeless housing voucher, something the federal government seems to give freely to people jumping the border recently, federal housing vouchers.

Half my day is surrounded by going to the gym and doing some form of therapy like decompression type exercises. Considering I had a hard time walking even a block even 8 years ago, and was on the doorsteps or surgery, I feel blessed that the therapy route, that is daily, is infact working. It is sort of lonely in the fact that it is healing and not running and doing something fun like join a team. I want to make friends though it.

Considering 5 years ago I got MEPS and ARMY IG letters confirming that my Navy Army Transfer off the ship was Medically Disqualified for Psych Spine and Musculoskeletal in 1998, I still move forward and feel blessed if not lonely, wondering ok are their other Navy or Army Guys that had a similar thing like this? Those medical records were mishandled and never transfers to the ship.

Even with the IG letters, and my duty assignment to a guided Missile frigate, That did not stop the VA from denying me, for years, even a homeless housing voucher, because of my reserve enlistment.

Veteran Law Groups picked up on my story and asked to include me in a national amicus, that included the worst of the worst VA stories that they had, nationally, and hide my identity with A.H.

I got my benefits and housing, and shortly after, my father who I had just been reintroduced to, a real deal 11 LIB Army Infantry Solider RadioOperator, Vietnam 66-68 passed away.

Basically I am like what would another solder feel if his son went through this?

I get questioned a lot. I want to turn this into a positive story.


Here is the case I referenced Monk vrs Schulkin.

swords-to-plowshares.org/research-publications/monk-v-shulkin-amicus-brief

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 4 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 5
I. Current Delays in Veterans Benefits Appeals Violate Due Process ........................ 5
A. The VA’s Delays Have Substantial Consequences For Veterans. ..................... 7
1. Veteransexperiencefinancialhardship,homelessness,threatstosafety, and increased health problems while they wait long periods for appeals to resolve their entitlement to disability benefits................................... 11
2. Veteransexperiencehopelessnessandemotionalstrainfromthe injustice of denials and the indifference to their disabilities delay represents. .............................................................................................. 15
3. Delays in veterans’ appeals undermine the effective and accurate adjudication of their claims. .................................................................. 17




12. After finally winning his claim and receiving benefits, A.H. was able to focus on other life goals instead of on minimal economic survival, safety, and the stress of having his injuries and experiences denied. He followed through on VA-assisted housing opportunities, moved into an apartment, and reported briefly being able to spend time caring for his father, a Vietnam veteran, before his father passed away.
13. Grave errors during the VA examination to rate A.H.’s disability added to the delay and distress A.H. endured. At the time the BVA granted A.H. service connection, VA treatment records in his claims file documented years of his paranoid and delusional thinking, chronic suicidal thoughts and prior suicide attempts, and chronically low functioning. Inexplicably, without conducting an examination, and without considering or referencing this clinical history, the VA assigned A.H. a 0% disability rating in August 2016. The result was crushing for A.H., and unlawful.


A.H.’s treatment records show that the VA’s errors and appellate delay exacerbated his mental health problems. A.H. focused on the claims process and on thoughts that the government was intentionally trying to harm him to such an extent that he had difficulty engaging in day-to-day activities. After finally winning his appeal, A.H. was devastated when the
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VA inexplicably rated his mental health disability at 0%


The medical record in A.H.’s case documented his lengthy history of severe mental health symptoms and homelessness. After winning service connection for his condition on appeal, the VA inexplicably rated his disability at 0% without an examination.

After winning his appeal and accessing his benefits, A.H. was able to obtain housing and briefly care for his father before his father passed away. Ex. A, Decl. of Barbara Saavedra ¶¶ 10-12.


———-Here is my father. RIP. I did not have enough time to be with him as I was trying to get my own military service well corrected


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HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT


PVT US ARMY


VIETNAM


DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948


DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017


BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19




SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY


1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005


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S1 US NAVY




WORLD WAR II




DATE OF BIRTH: 1927




DATE OF DEATH: 1998




BURIED AT:





SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY




NANTICOKE, PA 18634

SFC Thanks for writing. Here is a link to show how my status at the va was targeted only because of the reserve enlistment. Then check out what was reported to the navy by the navy about the NRF Ships, the FFG, the SAM Sea Air Mariner enlistment, the ramp up of reserve during the 1990s and the reports of more injuries due this in the final report.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qTEKm2rupGTwUxBFLGaYQlpmhzF32WeG/view?usp=drivesdk