{"id":73214,"date":"2017-07-05T14:16:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73214"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:35:23","slug":"vfw-helps-widow-recover-her-husbands-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73214","title":{"rendered":"VFW helps widow recover her husband’s due"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Adelore Palmiter was a veteran of World War II and a survivor of the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS (one of the 317 who survived from the crew of 1,197). You probably know the story of the INDIANAPOLIS and the horror that the survivors witnessed. Adelore was an 18-year-old sailor at the time, but he never thought that he was owed any benefits from the Veterans’ Affairs Department until his later years – the process of recalling the event proved too traumatic for him, though.<\/p>\n

From the VFW<\/a>;<\/p>\n

[Paul Pirlot, state director of the VFW Detroit Service Office in Michigan] said, \u201cThe second attempt was completed after we contacted him several years later. Sadly, he passed away before a decision was made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Realizing Adelore had a surviving widow, the VFW Department of Michigan Service Office pressed ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral roadblocks had to be navigated. The process was not easy, and we worked with VA offices in both Detroit and Washington D.C., as well as a VA congressional liaison,\u201d Pirlot continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone worked tirelessly and passionately to ensure that Mrs. Palmiter received the maximum benefits allowed by the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of these efforts, Wilma Palmiter was awarded monthly Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, accrued benefits and service-connected burial benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what VSOs are there for. My compliments to the VFW for not allowing this widow to fall by the wayside which would have been easy since she suffers from dementia and her husband had passed away. The VSOs are more than a cheap barroom packed with war story-telling pensioners. They are our voice in the halls of Congress and state legislatures and our advocates to the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adelore Palmiter was a veteran of World War II and a survivor of the sinking of … VFW helps widow recover her husband’s due<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73214","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=73214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}