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Victor_c3

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1. A lot of bad press surrounds the wounded warrior project, but they do some good

Reply to The River (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 08:13 AM

Mar 2016

A relative of mine receives about $7,000 per month to live in an assisted living community from the wounded warrior project. He is 30 and was blown up by a car bomb on the first day of Ramadan in 2004 and he has severe brain damage. The VA won't pay for the program that he is a part of.

The VA will make accommodations for him to live at home, but to live in a semi-independent assisted living facility away from his parents is not within the VA's scope of coverage. Undoubtedly his quality of life is much better in this assisted living community.

I'm angry at the waste within the organization, but they do help some people rather signicantly.

Edit to ad:

http://www.13abc.com/home/headlines/Local-soldiers-incredible-story-becomes-a-book-343089602.html?device=phone&c=y

The link is to a news story about the guy. His mother wrote a book that was recently published.

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