Support Our Troops My Ass !!! - Maimed Marine battles VA - CNN

[WillyT]

Marine Sgt. Ty Ziegel was attacked by a
suicide bomber in Iraq. He lost part of
his skull, his face was badly scarred
and a portion of his brain was damaged.
But when he returned home, the VA
rejected his brain damage claim.

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WASHINGTON, Illinois (CNN) -- Ty Ziegel peers from beneath his Marine Corps baseball cap, his once boyish face burned beyond recognition by a suicide bomber's attack in Iraq just three days before Christmas 2004.

He lost part of his skull in the blast and part of his brain was damaged. Half of his left arm was amputated and some of the fingers were blown off his right hand.

Ziegel, a 25-year-old Marine sergeant, knew the dangers of war when he was deployed for his second tour in Iraq.

But he didn't expect a new battle when he returned home as a wounded warrior: a fight with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

"Sometimes, you get lost in the system," he told CNN. "I feel like a Social Security number. I don't feel like Tyler Ziegel."

His story is one example of how medical advances in the battlefield have outpaced the home front. Many wounded veterans return home feeling that the VA system, specifically its 62-year-old disability ratings system, has failed them.

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Link: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/15/wounded.marine/index.html

Grrr... :mad::nuke::mad:

[WillyT]

1. Kick !!!

:kick:

[WillyT]

2. Kick !!!

:kick:

[RufusEarl]

3. Is this the same Marine, Bu$h couldn't look in the face?

A post here yesterday, showed Bu$h at a VA hospital talking to some vet's but Bu$h couldn't bring himself to look at the badly disfigured marine. Bu$h just doesn't understand the real cost of war, and he obviously can't look it in the face.

Peace!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. K&R

[Quantess]

5. K & R.