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Gregory Burdon Story

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Post by Guest Sun 20 Mar 2011, 19:51

It took me 9 years to find a job that I can do each day and make enough money to keep me from being homeless and have some pride in myself after my release

When I was released in 2000 there were all the promises of "Don't worry soldier we'll take care of you" only to find out that my VAC pension was $80.00 / Month!!! because someone in VRAB neglected to read the back of the CF98 which outlined the jump that fractured my spine in 4 places was done in uniform, during training for deployment and on a base. It took a further 4 years of fighting to get it sorted out.

Over the past 11 years I have lost my wife to alcoholism, my home because of her alcoholism and the crushing debt it left us in. I lost my career as a paralegal because of a snafu in SISIP/VAC LTD coverage of re-education they would not cover the cost of my last year of schooling because "it was a new system" and they were working the bugs out of setting up Voc Rehab at the time and I slipped through the cracks.

What galls me the most is that PRIOR to my release I was emailing and mailing anyone and everyone up to the PM's (Chretien at the time) office about the fact that SISIP was clawing back money that they shouldn't and I basically got told that if I didn't shut my mouth I'd get nothing and be out on my ass.

Now I have a job not a career. It pays me enough to live and take care of my dog but when I have to take a day or days off because of my condition flaring up because of the nature of the injury sustained I get the glares of my supervisor and threatened with replacement. So I suffer through and make it home to douse the pain with meds and anything else that will allow me to make it through another day.

I am so tired of it all. I'd like to trade places with any of these idiots in power for a week. But prior to them assuming my role I would crush their lumbar spine with a sledge hammer and their spirit with the worst deragatory terms my mouth could utter just so that they can see what we all face each day.

Why is it that we took better care to police up spent casings than we do of our Veterans?

Sorry for the rant. Just tired of it

Cheers;

Gregory Burdon

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