Canadian Vet's and their pensions

[VanIsle]

At home with Claude: a military veteran's life in the shipping container

MONTREAL - He steps over piles of trash, past the dog wolfing kibble off the floor, across his tattered mattress and into the perpetual darkness at the back of the shipping container.
Meet former Canadian Forces soldier Claude Lord — and …

at 11:30 on November 07, 2011, EST.Quick read ►

 

[SLM]

It's shameful to expect that much administrative legwork in order to process their pension benefits out of homeless vets, many of which I'm sure have substance abuse problems. They are setting them up to fail.This is the kind of thing that should become a viral story, headline news so that real pressure on the government can be obtained.

Thanks for posting this.

 

[darkbeaver]

What we should REMEMBER, every day, is the part played by neglected veterans of the first world war. They were decisive in Hitlers rise to power.

 

[Goober]

What we should REMEMBER, every day, is the part played by neglected veterans of the first world war. They were decisive in Hitlers rise to power.

Odd how you think - It is Bankers and world leaders for all the ills but when it comes to the Military - It is always the Soldier at fault. Fukin Sad

 

[VanIsle]

It's shameful to expect that much administrative legwork in order to process their pension benefits out of homeless vets, many of which I'm sure have substance abuse problems. They are setting them up to fail.This is the kind of thing that should become a viral story, headline news so that real pressure on the government can be obtained.

Thanks for posting this.

I was actually hoping to aid it in going viral just by posting it here. My husband used to work one day a week (maybe it was one day a month) and watch the vets come before the judges regarding pensions and some of the perks that should go with them. The number of people turned down for horrendous reasons is sickening. People in their 80's being turned away for things they should have been covered for over 40 years previous. The people hired to "stick up for" these vets simply turn into people who do all they can to stop them from receiving the much needed help they require. One judge was angry with a man for not looking at him. He demanded the man look at him and the man's daughter stood up and told the judge that her father was blind. The information was in front of him and the man was carrying a white cane.

What we should REMEMBER, every day, is the part played by neglected veterans of the first world war. They were decisive in Hitlers rise to power.

Please explain your words "they were decisive in Hitlers rise to power". None of my family (that I am aware of) ever fought in any war and I am not familiar in a way that I maybe should be.

 

[darkbeaver]

I was actually hoping to aid it in going viral just by posting it here. My husband used to work one day a week (maybe it was one day a month) and watch the vets come before the judges regarding pensions and some of the perks that should go with them. The number of people turned down for horrendous reasons is sickening. People in their 80's being turned away for things they should have been covered for over 40 years previous. The people hired to "stick up for" these vets simply turn into people who do all they can to stop them from receiving the much needed help they require. One judge was angry with a man for not looking at him. He demanded the man look at him and the man's daughter stood up and told the judge that her father was blind. The information was in front of him and the man was carrying a white cane.


Please explain your words "they were decisive in Hitlers rise to power". None of my family (that I am aware of) ever fought in any war and I am not familiar in a way that I maybe should be.

Millions of German veterans returned home in poverty and stayed that way for most of the next two decades while Germany was forced to pay socially crippling war reparations levied by the allies. They contributed greatly to the rise of Hitler.

 

[Goober]

Millions of German veterans returned home in poverty and stayed that way for most of the next two decades while Germany was forced to pay socially crippling war reparations levied by the allies. They contributed greatly to the rise of Hitler.

Many of us are more than familiar with what ocurred after WW1 -

 

[darkbeaver]

Many of us are more than familiar with what ocurred after WW1 -

Lucky us eh.

This government has already made decisions, billions for new warships and nothing for veterans.

 

[gerryh]

I think it should be pointed out that this "veteran" was in the Canadian Forces for only 4.5 years when he was 19 years old. Never saw combat, never went over seas.

 

[TenPenny]

Millions of German veterans returned home in poverty and stayed that way for most of the next two decades while Germany was forced to pay socially crippling war reparations levied by the allies. They contributed greatly to the rise of Hitler.

And you seem to be able to blame that on the individual soldiers that served for the Allies in WW1?

 

[Goober]

I think it should be pointed out that this "veteran" was in the Canadian Forces for only 4.5 years when he was 19 years old. Never saw combat, never went over seas.

And was diagnosed with PTSD from his service - Read the articles.

 

[gerryh]

And was diagnosed with PTSD from his service - Read the articles.

Don't buy it, not after this long.

plus, it mentions that he has been homeless for the last 7 years..... what did he do between getting out of the forces and 7 years ago? He's an admitted alcoholic....... AND he's only 53 years old. There's too much missing from this story.