Monday, March 14, 2016
Done with the Veteran's Administration
I have tried for over six years to get a VA ID card, so I can get 10% off my purchases at Home Depot and other places. I got the word VETERAN put on my driver's license, but Home Depot says, that don't count. Even showing my DD214 does not help. Today, I went to the VA Regional offices here in the Valley. And I have even gone to the one in Prescott to talk to them. Four times total they have said NOPE. I asked WHY? "You are over the salary cap for your Zip Code", they say. I tell them, I don't care about the medical care, I just want the ID card. Sorry, they say, the card goes with the medical care.
Then I hear about a House Bill that was passed in 2015 saying ALL Veterans can go to the VA or any military installation and get an ID Card. So I called Luke Air Force Base. They tell me that the government has not released the funds to print the cards, so the base can not do the cards. I asked the VA the same question and they said the VA does not think it is a good idea to get cards out to ALL veterans and they are not doing it. Are the bills law when passed? So can the VA say no the House and Senate when they are TOLD to do something? How would it go if I told the government I was not going to pay my taxes? Would they let me slide? HELL NO!
So Bill H.R. 91 is useless? Three years in the making and it's useless? And my time in the military (6 years total) was useless too? No, I don't believe that, but DAMN IT, give me a stinking ID card. I'll pay for it.
It's not the card. It's not the recognition. It's not the medical care. It's the principal that the government can not pay the vets their due for sacrificing their years of time, their separation from family, and sometime their lives. And when they do, there are SO many hurdles to jump over, under, and crawl through, to get that small bit they get and more than deserve. And I will guarantee if Trump gets elected, the Vets will get even a bigger shaft than they do now. My Shell family ancestors served this wonderful nation in every war and/or conflict since the Revolutionary War through every male generation, except one, and we are DAMN proud of it.
So now, because I make too much money, the government will not give me a $2 ID card proving I am a Vet, and that I did my time. That's OK, I'll pay that 10% at Home Depot and maybe, just maybe, I'll send the VA a bill at the end of the year for the discounts I DID NOT get because they did not think I deserve to be officially recognized as a Vet. Stuff it VA!
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