Essay On Veterans Disability

Fighting for Veterans Disability

I am a daughter of a Veteran. My dad served as a Marine in the United States Marine Corp from 1962- 1966. During that time, he served in combat during the Vietnam War. My dad was proud to have served for the country he loved so much. This would cost thousands of Americans their life. For those fortunate enough to return home after the war, the war was far from over. Many of these service men and women dealt with several health-related problems due to the chemicals that the government sprayed in Vietnam. In most cases these problem did not surface until many years later. It would take serval years for Veteran to receive any benefits from the Government.

My dad suffered from health issues that did not show up until 35-40 years after he was in Vietnam. He was a diabetic, with a history of a triple bypass, high blood pressure, and

If the Department of Veterans Affair think they need more documentation they will deny the request for disability, then the appeal process begins. When a veteran has an appealed it was left up to a the Board of Appeal, to determine if a Veteran should get compensated for the illness that was caused be service connected illness. This can take anywhere from 6 months to a few years to get what is due to the Veteran. As Veterans sacrifice a lot for our freedom but the Government does not want to compensate Veterans for their service. Instead, we have Veterans that must sacrifice again because of the Governments backlog process. According to an article in 2015 “The appeal system does not have enough staff to handle the record number of veterans” (Zarembo). If the government has that big of a backlog they need to find a way to correct it. They asked our Veterans to sacrifice for us, as Americans, now the Government should have to sacrifice for our Veterans and find other way to get through their backlogs in a timely