Sacrifice remembered.My husband retired from the United States Marine Corps United States Marine Corps (USMC) Separate military service within the U.S. Department of the Navy (see U.S. Navy), charged with providing marine troops for seizure and defense of advanced bases and with conducting operations on land and in the air in connection with in 1961 and died in 1987 with a VA disability rating of 100%. For 26 years he went without retirement pay he earned and deserved in order to receive VA care and disability compensation. When he died, I received great help and support from a DAV See WebDAV. advisor to collect dependency and indemnity compensation. It is gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to learn from the Legislative Bulletin that thanks to the DAV, Congress is finally being forced to eliminate some of the injustice Injustice American concentration camps 110,000 Japanese-Americans incarcerated during WWII. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 487] Bassianus murdered after being falsely accused. [Br. Lit. that has disallowed concurrent receipt for so many years. However, it should be remembered that there can never be justice for the thousands of survivors and families who have sacrificed because their disabled veterans died before they could receive current retirement pay for their years of loyal service to our country. Barbara O. Christie, Westbrook, CT |
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