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 Vallarta Living | Veteran Affairs | December 2006 
Do You Feel it Too?
 David Lord - PVNN
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We came together this season to share our lives with friends and family, but I feel even at our happiest gatherings a small piece of us is distracted, do you feel it too?
The American community as a whole has an emptiness in part of its collective soul. The joys that we share when together are a little less carefree since we are facing the folly of Iraq.
Navigating our future through a sea of wasted money, deceptive agendas, squandered good intentions, we are in transition. Once seen as a world leader we are now seen by the world as a clown, one who was fooling around where we do not belong and getting burned.
We really are living in a politically correct governed society which demands politically correct solutions for even our enemies. They will not find a P.C. solution for the Iraq War. The New Year is coming and you and I are in for some stormy weather, so love your best and protect yourself from too much news, because the news will be hard to take.
Ed Bradley of CBS news passed away not long ago, and I just found out he died of Leukemia while I was listening to my satellite radio show. Ed had covered a lot of action in Viet Nam, I wondered what type of Leukemia, because Agent Orange is a cause of many cancers today and is a compensated disease by the V.A.
I sent an email to the program and the producer of the show contacted me back about this information. After introductions and conversation about cll cancer he will find the exact cause of Ed's death.
I will be interviewed tomorrow on the nation wide broadcast by XM Radio, on channel 169 "The Power" with Urban Journal's, Keith Murphy. I plan on getting the message out that U.S. Veterans are still dying for South Viet Nam's War over 40 years later, and that sometimes great men like Ed Bradley may actually be casualties of the Viet Nam War.
I received the email below, and I am asking any Veteran in Banderas Bay that wants to address any issue to contact me, so that I may address the question or situation on your behalf.
December 2006
Dear Accredited Veterans Service Officer:
The Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission was created by an Act of Congress to 'carry out a study of the benefits under the laws of the United States that are provided to compensate and assist veterans and their survivors for disabilities and deaths attributable to military service' (Title XV, PL 108-136, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004.)
Its members, who were appointed by the President and leaders of Congress, are reviewing information they deem necessary in developing their report to the President and the Congress.
The commission has determined that surveying those on the "front lines" of the benefits determination and disability rating process, who have first-hand experience working with it, is a necessary part of the study it is charged with carrying out.
The commission invites you, as an accredited veterans service officer, to participate in this survey. The information and insights you can provide regarding this process and your experiences assisting veterans and their survivors to prepare, present, and prosecute their disability and compensation claims would be of great use to the commission and will help improve the process for the benefit of America's disabled veterans. We received your email address through a request to your Veterans Service Organization for a list of its accredited service officers.
Each one of us can make a difference in the world in which we are living by becoming a member of the American Legion Post 14. I started this Post so that we Veterans can make a positive difference here in Puerto Vallarta and Banderas Bay. You can be a part of it by becoming a volunteer, it is rewarding beyond your wildest dreams.
The Post accepts memberships of all Veterans and encourages members to recruit associate members that have no military service to become associate members, they have all the same benefits, less the right to vote in Post elections.
 David Lord served in Vietnam as combat Marine for 1st Battalion 26th Marines, during which time he was severely wounded. He received the Purple Heart and the Presidential Unit Citation for his actions during the war in Vietnam. In Mexico, David now represents all veterans south of the U.S. border all the way to Panama, before the V.A. and the Board of Veterans Appeals. David Lord provides service to veterans at no fee. Veterans are welcome to drop in and discuss claims/benefits to which they are entitled by law at his office located at Bayside Properties, 160 Francisca Rodriguez, tel.: 223-4424, call him at home 299-5367, on his cell: 044 (322) 205-1323, or email him at mophmx@@yahoo.com or david.lord@yahoo.com.
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