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After going thru Iraq to Kuwait I became so sick I coudln't even drive my 915, I had to rely on my buddy to do all the driving back into Saudi. I laid down on the floor stretching my body behind my buddy's legs as he drove. Those of you who have driven one you know how hard that task is. When we got back to Saudi we had to pressure wash our trucks and double stack trailers that took around 10 hours or more and being sick at the same time was horrible. I reported to our NBC Sgt about our NBC papers turning green at different places in Iraq but was told it was the diesel fumes from the trucks that caused the change in color. All I know is that my buddy and myself have been sick since we went into Iraq and have never recovered. I've been disabled since 1997 because of these illnesses and back injury I can't work and the VA Regional Office in Winston Salem,NC has reduced my disability benefits just on my back alone from 40% to 10% saying my back had improved! They started taking the money from my check in Feb 2010 and I have it on appeal and the DAV told the VA that they are not to take my money until the appeal but the VA wouldn't listen. That money was half of my house payment so now I'm behind on my mortgage and Bank of America has started to foreclose on my home of 17 years. My overall disability rating with the VA was 70% and now it's 60% but not officially, yet. The appeal has yet to be heard and believe me, I will take this all the way to D.C.I was one of the veterans along with Paul Sullivan, Joe Poe, Denise Nichols and many others who kept going to D.C. in the 90 s making our elected officials see us and hear what we had to say about our illnesses and that it was connected to our service in DSDS and we demanded our elected officials to not ignore us and start doing something FOR us, not against us.I just can't believe that the VA Regional Office can do this to a veteran with no proof that my back has improved, but with boxes of proof that my back has actually worsened and there is no way it can improve unless God himself has healed me. Whats even worse, they sent me a decision saying my back had not improved not long before they sent me a decision saying it had. Plus, I've been denied service connection for fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other illnesses I've been diagnosed with since my return home because they said there is no proof my illnesses started while in service. All of this is what I think of every day of every year especially Jan and Feb. I can't help but think about it and that's a shame.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Raphael
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
17 december 2014, 07:44:05
AUTHOR'S IP LOGGED
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