@sneakypete I sincerely thank you from the very bottom of my heart for your service. It is an absolute disgrace how you have been treated. Still praying for you.
@libertybele Thanks,but once again,I SINCEREY want to point out there is nothing special about me or the treatment I received. Many have been treated far worse than me because I had sense enough to realize I was about to get hostile,and just quit going to the VA altogether for maybe 10 years. I can be sarcastic as hell and love to "punch holes in ego balloons",but I am lucky enough to realize that when I DO "lose it",I lose it BIG-TIME. Dragging a VA clerk across his desk by the front of his shirt and explaining to him the day I decided to take a break from going to the VA Hospital that "ONE of us is going to see a doctor today,bleep! Me,or you. Make your choice."
I did get to see a doctor that day,but it's safe to say I didn't make many VA friends that day.
THAT is the disgraceful part. NO ONE should be backed into a corner that far that they have to come out,grab people,and make physical threats,just to get the treatment they SHOULD have received with a smile when they walked in the door.
I KNOW I am not going to make any friends here when I say this,but THAT particular VA hospital was staffed mainly by black employees,and they really seemed to hate white vets. I have stood in line to see a clerk at that hospital,and when I got up to the front of the line,had the clerk look over my shoulder at the black guy behind me,and say "May I help you,sir?" This sort of thing should never happen anywhere,at any time.