Tet 68'

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Keith settlements cpl - May 25, 2020

Cpl. Keith settlements 1/7 first div. Marines Vietnam was a super mother f. Love all vets we need to be heard by the va. Else we get the out about how those who sacrifice are treated. It s just not right

Sgt. Robert L Sisson - May 25, 2020

Thanks for the concern. My problems all deal with the Bladder cancer. I am waiting to see what the doctor wrote. From this paper the VA sent me I have half these problems. Get up 4 times or more every night to go to the bathroom, feel like I have to go and can’t. Can’t use urinal because I might be standing there 5-10 minutes. Might have to have cathater put in if cancer comes back, this is something I will have to learn to do myself. Having a bag attached to me.. . There is even more. I think the doctors are afraid to go up against the VA.

Bill Walter, Cpl. - May 25, 2020

Dit-oh brother!! Politicians not Generals pick the wars we fight! Poli-dick-shons sit on their brains back home and point. I cringe at what dickhead 45 will point at next. Hope MadDog gets his words in.

Robert H Bliss, 0341 - May 25, 2020

i hide from my PTSD by the kind of work I did for over 30 years (Intensive Probation/Parole Officer) and when my two marriage die I didn’t care. I was better off without friends. They wouldn’t understand me or care anyways and the VA just wanted to screw with me so to hell with them. And then, Agent Orange cause prostate cancer and nerve damage and chronic pain and all kind of other problems. I think I know how you all might feel—I’m right there with you. Then, I was forced in to retirement due to disability and I met someone who wouldn’t walk out on me or quit —- Marines, there is a time in everyone’s life when you need to call up help so that you can keep on fighting and not let our friends be forgotten in our life time. The three proudest moments in my life is when: I became a Marine, I became a father, and was smart enough to marry my third wife. Semper Fi to our Brotherhood of Marines.

SUDDENDEATH - May 25, 2020

We will never know the exact death toll of the war.The death toll keeps on rising every day.and some of the deaths from suicides and agent orange related death are never reported as service connected deaths.For you out there that are not getting help or filling a claim you need to rethink it.Our government bleed us for all they could get I,m going to squeeze them for every nickle I can get.Some think ?I am gaming the system ! so be it Never asked for anything I did not think I deserved

Robert H Bliss, 0341 - May 25, 2020

Remember what we were told in Boot Camp, after you give it 100% then just take that more step everytime. Good luck with your appeal. I just had a thought and might as well let you hear it— my brother has gone through the same kind of hassle with the NY VA . He told me that he moved and went to a different VA Center and got the help he needed with none of the problems he had before. Maybe getting someone different to look at your medical records at a different VA Center—they might understand what you’re saying. I had the same experience going to a different center and got the help. Is that possible for you? Sometimes explaining your limits in numbers helps them to judge your difficulties—I can’t walk .10 of a mile without causing level 5 pain. I’m sorry for putting my nose in your business but when someone is treated unfairly—“it pisses me completely off” . i also believe in our Brotherhood of Marines.

Bethanne Scholl - May 25, 2020

I want to thank all who were brave enough to enlist and serve. I am very proud to be an American because of all you do. People are great full for your help even if they don’t say so. God bless you all.

Greg Creech - May 25, 2020

We were right to be in Nam. We had to stop the spread of Communism somewhere. I arrived in country early Feb. 1968 in the middle of Tet and left after Tet 1969. By July we had the war won and could have just mopped up the North if the politicians and Jane Fonda’s would have let us. When we left millions of Vietnamese were slaughtered. We lost 58,479 no one knows how many South Viet Nam lost. I’m proud of my service and carrying on the Marine tradition in my family. Semper Fi

Sgt Robert L Sisson - May 25, 2020

AMEN Brother sounds like you reading my mind. I have led a blessed life also. There were 3 times over there that I should have been taken out. I always thought someone up there was looking out for me. All my friends tell me I should go for PTSD but I never have either. SEMPER FI

SGT. Billy Richardson - May 25, 2020

I enlisted at the end of 65, right out of High School, went to Vietnam 66-67 and have lived with PTSD since then. Being a Marine is “one of the things” I am most proud of in my life. Never went to the VA about my PTSD, diagnosed by private Doctor, I just learned to live with it. When it gets bad I just go into a room by myself and close the door and deal with it. It’s not easy but I just do it. Was married 3 times before I finally figured out what the problem was. I had a great job, made good money and raised 3 great kids. I served my country and I deal with the after effects of it as best I can. I’m very proud to have served my country as a Marine. I am very sorry for the pain and suffering that war caused so many but at this point all we can do is deal with it, like Marines. I hope the remainder of our lives will be as good and pain free as possible and to all of us posting on this site lets not forget,, God brought us home. Many weren’t so lucky. May God Bless All of My Brothers and Sisters. Semper Fi