Coalition Of Gay Vietnam Veterans

Problems faced by gay veterans In Arkansas:

Posted 11/27/2009 11:05 AM CST on TodaysTHV.com

I’ve tried the contact page at the White House web site to contact President Obama on three different occasions and not once did I even receive a confirmation let alone a follow-up reply.

Openly gay veterans have never been and never will be welcome in the VA on any level especially so in Arkansas, in fact openly gay people are harassed on all levels of the work force in the VA.  With the number of claims topping 1 million on the backlog books, unless you know high-ranking VA officials, or have a lover that graduated from Harvard Law School at the top of the class, or courting and/or smooching up to the right people in the VA or have around 10 thousand dollars to drop on an attorney’s desk it isn’t going to happen.

The VA is full of slimy, nasty, greedy thieves who think it is their duty to deny vets rightful benefits so richly deserved by serving their country and nowhere is that more obvious or prevalent than at CAVHS and The VA Regional Office in Little Rock/N Little Rock, AR.  I’ve been through the mill on more than one occasion up to and including a personal hearing through closed circuit television with the VA in Washington, DC and the most recent denial being in early 2003.

Not only was the attorney’s right to represent challenged by the VA legal coach for a full thirty minutes at the hearing, but also the VA had even thrown away the power of attorney submitted by the attorney.   Straight veterans aren’t keen on associating with or assisting openly gay veterans and the number one reason being, their guilty of being gay by association excluding those who feel gays are sick and perverted.

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