I'm having a problem with the military trying to get my charges dropped. I have to pay the Department of Justice and say how I was wronged. It's the exact same thing with Veterans Affairs.
There are so many things they could do. I've had I don't know how many case managers. I have had to retell my story so many times since 1996—and there are other people.
There have to be streamlined methods so that you're not reopening these wounds. The onus should be on them sometimes. There's a lawsuit that came in. Maybe they should open some cases and not make the person have to go through it all again.
Someone could have helped me, but they said that no one could help me—even the Bureau of Pensions Advocates—until I wrote a letter. Well, I was sitting there writing it and shaking because I had already been through so many denials that I didn't want to subject myself to that again and set myself up for disappointment. It was extremely difficult to have to reopen those wounds just to get something I should have gotten way back in 1997, when it was awarded.