{"id":22525,"date":"2011-03-08T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22525"},"modified":"2011-03-08T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:53:49","slug":"wounded-warrior-project-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22525","title":{"rendered":"Wounded Warrior Project needs your help"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you probably read here at TAH, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, that incompetent boob, Eric Shinseki, currently sucking the American tax payers dry by demonstrating the Peter Principle as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, has failed to implement the DVA program meant to help wounded veterans out of long term care facilities and back into their homes.<\/p>\n

The Wounded Warrior Project sent this message to you TAH fans this afternoon;<\/p>\n

Wounded Warrior Project calls on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the White House to make good on promised benefits.<\/p>\n

Caregivers of veterans recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) at risk for being left out of Congressionally mandated benefits by VA<\/p>\n

Jacksonville, FL (March 7, 2011) As we enter Brain Injury Awareness Month, the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is committed to ensuring that veterans injured during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and their caregivers receive the benefits included in the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act signed into law last year by President Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2010, Congress put assistance in place to ensure that the caregivers of these brave men and women are able to continue providing the necessary support for their recovery,\u201d said Steve Nardizzi, Executive Director of WWP. \u201cNearly a year later and ironically coinciding with Brain Injury Awareness Month, family caregivers of as many as 2,500 severely brain-injured warriors may now be ineligible to receive benefits promised under a plan the VA continues to defend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLast month, the VA submitted a plan that would shrink the number of families qualifying for benefits by more than three-quarters, hitting those with cognitive and related brain-injury impairments hardest,\u201d Nardizzi continued. \u201cIt is unacceptable for the Administration to deviate so dramatically from the clear direction Congress set, and jeopardize the care of these service members to meet a new agenda.\u201d <\/p>\n

TBI has emerged as one of the signature wounds of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, amazing strides have been made in the medical intervention and treatment of TBI. But with that comes a long road of treatment and care for these veterans when they return home. It\u2019s a labor of love for the family caregivers of these severely wounded warriors, but also an all-consuming one in which many families have had to commit all of their resources to their loved one\u2019s recovery process.<\/p>\n

In providing for caregiver assistance, Congress clearly specified that the law covers caregivers of veterans who sustained traumatic brain injury in the line of duty and who were \u201cin need of personal care services because of\u2026a need for supervision or protection based on symptoms or residuals of neurological or other impairment or injury.\u201d It is apparent when reviewing the Act as a whole, that the rehabilitation of veterans with traumatic brain injury was an intended goal with respect to each of these provisions.<\/p>\n

WWP is calling on the Administration and the VA to recognize the severity and complexity of these injuries and guarantee that these American heroes and their families are provided the best support and care possible. <\/p>\n

Join the effort to secure what has been promised to the caregivers of our nation\u2019s heroes:<\/p>\n

* Visit us on Facebook<\/a>
\n * Learn more<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you probably read here at TAH, here and here, that incompetent boob, Eric Shinseki, currently … Wounded Warrior Project needs your help<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}