another war wounded hero gets a giant boot in the ass

i am incensed. how one more person can enlist after reading shite like this is beyond me. how? why?

how can king george sleep at night when jon town isn't getting the benefits he deserves (also see the story posted before this on ANOTHER denial of benefits to a vet SHOT in iraq. if i read this story and i'm aware of it, why isn't king george? why isn't he on the phone RIGHT NOW to some va hospital nailing someone's ass to the wall over this? according to laura 'i guess i did one too many tabs in the 60s' bush, NO ONE (and she means NO ONE) suffers MORE than YOUR president and i

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How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits

Joshua Kors

Jon Town has spent the last few years fighting two battles, one against his body, the other against the US Army. Both began in October 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq. He was standing in the doorway of his battalion's headquarters when a 107-millimeter rocket struck two feet above his head. The impact punched a piano-sized hole in the concrete facade, sparked a huge fireball and tossed the 25-year-old Army specialist to the floor, where he lay blacked out among the rubble. ..............

.............Eventually the rocket shrapnel was removed from Town's neck and his ears stopped leaking blood. But his hearing never really recovered, and in many ways, neither has his life. A soldier honored twelve times during his seven years in uniform, Town has spent the last three struggling with deafness, memory failure and depression. By September 2006 he and the Army agreed he was no longer combat-ready.
But instead of sending Town to a medical board and discharging him because of his injuries, doctors at Fort Carson, Colorado, did something strange: They claimed Town's wounds were actually caused by a "personality disorder." Town was then booted from the Army and told that under a personality disorder discharge, he would never receive disability or medical benefits. .........