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packman

(16,296 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 02:00 PM Jun 2020

From the files of "Can you believe this shit?"

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Retired Master Cpl. Paul Franklin lost both of his legs from just above knee when a bomb hit the vehicle he was driving during a Canadian Forces tour in Afghanistan in January 2006.

Ten years later, he is getting ready to fill out yet another set of forms to tell the Canadian government that, in fact, his legs are still missing.


https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-military-veteran-frustrated-he-has-to-annually-fill-out-form-to-say-his-legs-are-still-missing/
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From the files of "Can you believe this shit?" (Original Post) packman Jun 2020 OP
Well you know the Master Cpl might be part frog and they would grow back... Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1
It happened to my father. TxVietVet Jun 2020 #2
I remember that wryter2000 Jun 2020 #4
I mean wryter2000 Jun 2020 #3

TxVietVet

(1,905 posts)
2. It happened to my father.
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 02:06 PM
Jun 2020

My father lost his leg in 1971. When the conservanazi savior, Ronnie Raygun became president, conservanazis believed that everyone who was on SOcial Security disability were scammers, my dad had to appear befor the SS office and show them his leg hadn't grown back. I had just returned bac from Vietnam. My father was a WWII vet.

Incidents like this are nothing new.

MSG Roy Benevidez, Medal of Honor, mentioned this in his biography.

The conservanazis wanted to screw the poor and others.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
4. I remember that
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jun 2020

I was working at legal aid at the time, in the department representing people trying to get SS disability. All sorts of people were getting letters saying "We've determined you can work, so we're terminating your benefits." There was on man who was so psychotic his file at the SS office said, "Under no circumstances ask this person to visit the office." We got a lot of those decisions overturned, but I always wondered what happened to the people who just gave up.

IMHO, Ronald Reagan was the beginning of what has led us to Trump and the destruction of the United States of America.

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