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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 994429, member: 24633"]Why do you say "If"? If you doubt that it happened, let me explain that I was there at Bay Pines in St. Petersburg. I took care of my parents for 25 years, and I drove them to that hearing. While I didn't personally see the clerk (not an officer) throw the paperwork in the trash, my Mom did. While we were waiting outside the hearing room, my Mom noticed the clerk take the paperwork with her down the hall in the OPPOSITE direction away from the hearing room. Mom didn't say anything to me, but she got up and followed her. Mom rounded a corner in time to see her dispose of the paperwork, and she retrieved it herself. When she returned to where Dad and I were sitting, she had the paperwork in her hand and she was fuming. When Dad was called into the hearing room, Mom went with him and she told them what happened. I could hear everything from outside the room. To me, it wasn't just coincidence that Dad then received his 100% disability. If you want to get mad about what I have just related, be my guest, but you can't assume that everyone is as dedicated to their job. I don't know if you have ever read the publication AXPOW (yes, Dad was a POW, too!), but every month it was filled with letters from ex-POW's who were not treated fairly by the VA and if it hadn't been for some outside organization like AXPOW or Florida Veterans Affairs, many of them would have been shortchanged, too. Chris[/QUOTE]