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All I did was go home after work that Faithful Day!

I am female veteran & disabled. I am a victim of an auto accident last year in April. I was hit behind from a driver at high speed. All I remember is an explosion. The driver had stopped an told me what he did. Police were notifed, my car was 100% totaled. I lost my job, car, & was evicted & lost everything imagineqble. Been on physical therapy which just ended in mid to late October of this year. Been sleeping in my car since July. Can't cook or have cold food due to lack of no fridge. Lucky if I can eat every three days. I make if lucky $70 every two weeks due to the weather. Whatever I make pays bills and put gas into the car I have to keep warm. I bad days too, sleeping and living in a car 24/7 days a week, no TV but I have a phone. This is insane for anyone to live like this! Maybe God is testing me only He knows. I do have medical issues like blood clots. My back, neck and shoulders and legs are killing me. I have seeked help from other organizations and their response is " I dont qualify maybe if I was 6 feet unground." Please, there is more involved which is not good. I have have or had attorneys with no avail. My attorney at hand is siding with GEICO the other driver insurance and wants go settle at $7000. Colorado is a tort law state since 2003! I am stuck so far in debt. My credit is a stake which was real good. Now my bank refuses to let me see my bank activity!!!! WOW since last October 2014! Please someone help me, please!!! I am completely at your mercery. I need help financialy, a home, and attorney to go against GEICO and the two people. All I did that faithful was go home from work @ 2:20 pm... Please HELP. I want this story also on local TV & Fox News.

Anonymous
Colorado Springs, CO

Four Tours to Four Paws

I was medivacd in 2009 due to spinal/nerve damage and a TBI as a result of combat operations while serving in Iraq. I spent two years in and out of the hospital in Lansthul Germany and finally the TBI center in Ft Lewis, WA. I suffer from PTSD and severe pain from headaches, severe nerve pain and seziure. I am bound to a wheelchair as a result. Just when I thought everything was to much I found my best friend and battle buddy. Maximus has literally saved my life on several occasions. He listens to my issues and never talks back. He is a 120 lb GSD. God showed me there are so many reasons to live. In turn he sent me an Angel (Maximus). I served in the Army for over 9 yrs and retired as an E6. With more than 3000 combined combat patrols/missions, my current mission has been the most difficult. With Maximus at my side, failure is not an option. With him I have found purpose in my life as a civilian/Veteran. PTSD is not curable but it can been treated. Not just with medication. I use my best friend to help me get through the rough days. I will forever be a Soldier and have no regrets now. Thank you for letting me share my story.

SSG Joseph Roman (RET)
Altus, OK

TOUR OF DUTY DURING VIETNAM WAR 1972

I JOINED THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE IN 1971 AND MY HOME DUTY STATION WAS COLUMBUS OHIO, I WAS SECURITY AND MILITARY POLICE OFFICER .
SERVED IN THIALAND FROM JUNE OF 1972 TO NOVEMBER OF 1972 IN OPERATION LINEBACKER IN AN AREA OF IMMENIENT DANGER,

PROUD TO HAVE SERVED AND WOULD DO IT AGAIN , THE AIR FORCE IS A GREAT BRANCH TO BE IN . MY PROUDEST MOMENT IS THE DAY I GOT TO GAURD AIR FORCE ONE

KEN WALLENSTEIN

kenneth wallenstein
HURON, SD

merry

wanted ta say thanks to the American Legion in Benton City.They collectively came to my aid before the holidays.Commander Tim And Crew.

Anonymous
Benton, WA

Help our vets

My name is Pete Snyder owner of
Pete's Lawn care Maintenance Richmond & Lexington Ky areas. The reason why I love to help our vets is because they all give us the freedom that we enjoy today. Many of my clients are former vets I get to here there stories I get to meet many of them that helps me get though my life, day. I know over all what it's like to almost become homless my self it's my honer to support our men an woman in my business. I recall helping one of my military friends last year thanks to the Richmond firer department that way there two boys could have a smile on there faces this is why I do what I do an love it through out the year. If I can help our active military or ret vets both to from cutting up trees to over all lawn care I will do the best I can. What many people do not know is I am a one person crew please take a look on my two facebook sights Pete Snyder an also under Pete's Lawn care Maintenance Richmond & Lexington Ky areas my needs are great an so are the countless needs of our service men an woman this is what God's called me to do but it takes financial things to keep on doing what I do an why please understand it's not about me it's about the countless people I service God bless America an the people I service .

pete
Richmond, KY

Thank you!!!

Just want to say thank you to all of you that have given some of your life to defend us and the USA. Some of us probably don't deserve what has been given but you guys don't seem to think of that you just do it. GOD bless all of you and those of you that do not believe in God may what ever you do believe in watch over you, thanks again from at least most of the free world and from the USA.

Jim Weathers
Alto, TX

Just like Christmas!

My husband is currently a U.S. Navy veteran. He has been retired for about 11 years - way before Skype and communications between us were not everyday and were via email. When he was out on sea trials and gone for days or weeks, when he came home, I told him it was "better than Christmas"!. So, Our secret code was "better than Christmas" for him to let me know when he would be home. I still think being with him is better than Christmas!!!

Anonymous
Norfolk, VA

Vietnam Veterans

As the wife of a Vietnam veteran I can testify on my husband's behalf how they have been forgotten and how the VA PUSHES the disabled aside. My husband is 100% disabled. He has PTSD & Parkinson's Disease, he also has had prostate cancer, bladder cancer and Ischemic Heart disease, all requiring surgery and all caused by agent orange. During his recent bout with the bladder cancer, I called the VA clinic and let them know he had cancer and needed chemo and radiation. He wasn't scheduled for his next appt for 3 months thus I asked to get in sooner. I was told a resounding NO. He needed help then not wait 3 months. I took him to UT med center for the treatments. Now I'm fighting for the VA to pay his bills. They say he should have traveled 6 hrs a day, to and from, their medical facility. He was very weak and down to 101 lbs, a 42 lb loss, and could barely go the half hour each way to Knoxville. He spent 9 days in the hospital with pneumonia and a blood disorder, requiring transfusions, because of the treatments. It is so beyond comprehension why our veterans should be put thru this kind of hassle to get medical care. The gov't had to know when they sprayed agent Orange to kill the vegetation it would harm our men. Its one of the past discretions they would rather sweep under the rug and ignore the damage it has done. I believe the compensation they pay for agent Orange is $79 an month. That's disgraceful. Our men gave their time and lives for our country and our country owes them. Someone needs to force the current VA to care for them no matter what. Not expect them to travel hours for meducal care. If this current administration does nothing else, give our disabled vetearns the care they need and the pay they deserve to survive, where they live no matter what. Its your obligation.

Sue Collis POA for Sgt Gerald Collis
Maryville, TN

Soldier's Home

Seven thousand miles away from home,
the smell of our wives,
the laughter of our children,
seem all but gone.

Across an ocean,
a world away and full of fear,
our hearts desire;
nothing more but to have them near.

In a desert,
with landscapes abound,
hours may pass,
with not one sound.

As the sun takes refuge,
off in the west,
we pray to the almighty,
that we pass the test.

As darkness falls,
time begins to slow,
and we scan the ridges,
for an evil foe.

With the dawning of a new day,
we witness a glorious sunrise,
and we dream of our families and wonder,
how must we seem in their eyes?

Do they truly understand,
why we are miles from home?
Do they know why,
we must be gone?

Do they realize,
that we hold them dear?
And do they know,
that we want nothing more, but to have them near?

Seven thousand miles away,
and alone,
with each passing day,
we are one day closer to home.

By Denson Goff
Copyright 2005
Listed 10/30/2006

Denny Goff
Atlanta, GA

Patton

I'm a Paramedic in Ga and have been for 30 years. I've tried to tell the " kids " that when they pick up patients they need to talk with them if they can on the way to the hospital. Well one day I took my own advise and I'm glad I did. I responded to and elderly gentleman at one of the nursing homes on the south side of Atlanta. Nurses automatically told me the patient had dementia and could not give me much information but he had told them his chest was hurting. Well as I was doing my primary assessment I happened to look up on his wall and there I saw it a 3rd Army patch along with armor brass in a shadow box. I looked down at the patient and asked where you with a real " Bastard " in the service, well you can item aging the looks I got but the gentleman turned to me and said yes sir, Old Blood and Guts Patton himself. I then asked him where had he been and he replied you ever heard of " Nuts " and I said yes sir that is the response the commander of the 10 1st gave the Germans at Bastogne. Needless to say this gentleman was not having any chest pains and he damn sure didn't have any dementia, and I was able to come back after my shift and talk to a real American Hero for hours.

Bo Dawson
Jasper, GA