June 20, 2019
Director Julianna M. Boor
Department of Veterans Affairs
Regional Office
9500 Bay Pines Boulevard
St. Petersburg, FL 33744
Dear Regional Director Boor:
I received your letter dated June 7, 2019, that I wish to thank you and the V.A. Secretary Mr. Robert Wilkie for in response, and for your concern to resolve the issues that are negatively impacting our Veterans requiring urgent attention to remedy. That were detailed to the Secretary; but as always being Glossed-Over with generic letters defending the V.A. and not responding to the substance about.
I will here try to point the details for you once again; and which are not within our Veterans purview to resolve; and which can only be remedied from “the top down” so you will have a better understanding of what WE have to come to terms with.
Something is killing-off our Veterans at a horrifying rate of 22 Veterans lives per day, that has been going-on now for quite some time, and coming from my era of the Vietnam War, at a terrible toll, that I can personally attest and bear witness to.
1. That “Something” is the deadly combination of Post-Traumatic Stress in toll of the rigors, horrors, Guilt, and Remorse, associated to our Veterans Combat and Support Rolls involved in our Nation’s Wars that each Veteran has to Suffer For.
2. And for the fact, that Combat itself induces Suicidal Ideation as the only means of coping daily with the Unmitigated Fear and Terror associated with being killed; which manifests itself “in a longing for death” outright in order to die bravely.
3. And that, on arriving back home after being discharged from their duty, that the Veterans have to face the fearful attitudes and reaction of their families, friends, and employers, over what War has made them all - into Hardened Trained Killers.
4. On top of all of that (and herein lies our main point of contention with the V.A. Secretary Wilkie over;) is that, upon our Veterans reporting to their V.A. Health Care Facilities for help in suffering for the effects of their PTSD, coupled with the Suicidal Urgings of the Coping Mechanism associated with Combat, and over the Social Rejection of Alienation they are experiencing upon returning home; that the V.A. then assigns them, (these brave men and women who have served with Honor and Distinction to the Ultimate Sacrifice of Their Lives For This Nation,) to the Stigmas of Psychiatric Ward Status, attaching Mental Illness Psychiatric Labels to them that they can’t refute; and Subjecting them, (as a routine precaution) to Anti-Psychotic, Strong Tranquilizer, Neuroleptic, Psychotropic Restraining Chemical Pharmacy, (such as Thorazine, Navane, Trilafon, Prolixin, Hadlol, Mellaril, Stelazine, Lithum, to name a few;) that, in and of themselves, induce Suicidal Ideation as a consequent side-effect of their use among other Severely Damaging Effects, Side-Effects, Adverse Reactions, and Paradoxical Reactions, (inducing the same Mental Illnesses that these Chemical Pharmacies are advertised to alleviate.)
5. Also to point out, that these Chemicals, (called “Meds,”) are excruciatingly painful to endure in the overall of their inducing; “Very Uncomfortable States of Being,” termed as “Motor Restlessness,” (in which our Veterans can’t stand-up, can’t sit down, can’t sleep, and can’t stay awake,) “Psychotropic Nightmares,” “Tardive Dyskinesia,” “Seizures,” “Muscle Spasms,” “Adverse Endocrine and Metabolic Effects,” “Hypotension Chronic Fatigue,” “Anhedonia and Emotional Flattening” (or the inability to feel pleasure,) and “Sexual Dysfunction;” in feelings of Suicidal Dysphoria; and rendering these Veterans into a Comatose Vegetative State making it impossible for any of them to ever function normally in society.
All of this has been repeatedly made known to the V.A., and Administrator after Administrator has come and gone, with the stern warnings in admonition for the Heading of Psychiatric Wards to be changed to “Convalescent Wards,” and for our Returning Veterans to be assigned to: Convalescent Bed Rest Recovery, Stress Counseling, Sound Nutrition, and Supportive Therapy; and absent the stigma of any unnecessary Psychiatric History Labeling, and any use of any Strong Tranquilizer Drugs. And that these Restraining Tranquilizer Drugs be used only for cases of violence being deemed a threat to themselves and others, and only then sparingly in a temporary sense. Legal Defining of Mental Illness Conditions is also required and for the V.A. to Provide Legal Counsel to Veterans to dispute such Diagnoses.
