{"id":10894,"date":"2009-05-26T06:12:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10894"},"modified":"2009-05-26T06:34:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T11:34:51","slug":"some-phony-pow-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10894","title":{"rendered":"Some phony POW statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read these somewhere before (I think TSO sent it to me once), but I thought y’all’d like to see these statistics on phony POWs<\/a> in light of yesterday’s revelation about super-secret recondo Eugene Reed;<\/p>\n

There are only 661 officially recognized U.S. POWs from the Vietnam period. About 550 of those are alive, but the VA says they are paying disability payments to 966 “Vietnam POWs.” It got worse after the 1991 Gulf War. There were 21 officially recognized POWs during that conflict, but the VA is paying disability to 286 Gulf War POWs. For years, the VA claimed that they checked out the records before recognizing all these phony POW vets. Once recognized as a POW by the VA, you have several financial benefits (like not having to make copayments for medical services). Thus the fake POWs are also guilty of stealing money from the government. Veterans groups believe the VA resisted dealing with this obvious fraud because of unwillingness to deal with the resulting bad publicity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ten-to-one is about right with Gulf War veterans. It’s probably the same as the ratio of people who claimed they were almost killed in SCUD attacks in that war, too. <\/p>\n

I think it’s high time we put our pride aside and end this farce. I wonder if Mean Eugene was collecting benefits for his ill-concocted story. I found this part of the article a bit disturbing, though;<\/p>\n

Many civilians accuse the authenticating organizations guilty of being vigilantes, as many people find nothing wrong in a little make believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many civilians, and Charles Anderson<\/a>, apparently. I’m not surprised that anyone who hasn’t really accomplished anything in their meager existence sees nothing wrong with stealing someone else’s accomplishments. I’m not exactly sure how calling out the media and a phony POW makes me a “patriot” (he says it as if it’s a bad word), but I guess that’s the new code word for “vigilante”. <\/p>\n

I think the first time I read this (a month or so ago) we were in contact with POW Net and Mary mentioned that the VA won’t check their list of claimants against DoD’s list of POWs. They also won’t release a list of claimants so that we can check for them. With resources for veterans so scarce that they consider forcing veterans to pay for their service-connected health care, you’d think the VA would want to set this one right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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