“This is bullshit and I’m calling you out Uncle Sam!"

“Given that we are having more and more compensation seeking veterans, I’d like to suggest that you refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out,” Norma Perez wrote in an e-mail to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers at the Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Center in Temple, Texas, which is run by the VA. Her bright alternative was to “consider a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder.”

VA staff members “really don’t...have time to do the extensive testing that should be done to determine PTSD,” said Perez.

Let me ask you this Ms. Perez: What is the VA so busy doing?

What is more important to the Department of Veterans Affairs than the Veteran’s Affairs?

These soldiers aren’t looking for a handout, they are expecting you to do your job and help them!!

They rely on your lazy asses!!

Do your fucking job and deliver!!

This is yet another sign that this war is producing problems we can’t deal with properly. We cannot simply throw our veterans to the curb with a bottle of Motrin and some sleeping pills. Some of these men and women are very sick and without this help, they are doomed to our bridges and culverts. Doomed to die drunk on the railroad tracks and in the homeless shelters or to be beaten cruelly by urban youth. Doomed to waste away as empty shells while their family stands by unable to reach their loved ones.

The government is worried about the estimated 4-6 billion dollar cost of veteran’s health care over the next 2 years, but apparently they have no problem spending 4 trillion on bombs and overpriced toilet seats.

Apparently you have the money to take us on a 15 month date in the desert and never call us back!

I feel pretty used.

These statistics don’t even include the hundreds of thousands on active duty for whom it is virtually impossible to seek treatment without unofficial or career shaking recourse.

Whether Norma Perez is acting on her own or at the behest of a higher power, this is bullshit and I’m calling you out Uncle Sam!

– Bryan Hannah, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Branch of service: United States Army
Unit: 1st Cav
Rank: SPC
Home: Munising, Michigan
Served in: Fort Hood, Kuwait, Iraq.

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