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November 17, 2007 08:45 PM PST
When I first was told about this and went to the shortcuts provided, read the article, then watched the movie clips, I had to stop a few minutes, take a break, and calm down. I can’t think of another time when I have been angrier about the United States Government Veteran’s Administration and how our returning wounded military men and women from Iraq are being treated. I think it is shameful, I think it is disgusting and I think this country needs to stand up and rake politicians and bureaucrats over the coals to insure that there will NEVER be another veteran who has to suffer or go through the humiliation of what you are going to read and see.
Dave
COURTESY OF CNN
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates the shocking reality of what happens to the nation's wounded warriors when they return home.
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.
Ty Ziegel, a Marine, was badly wounded in Iraq. He battled the VA over disability benefits when he returned.
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.
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