...---- SELF-PROCLAIMED Pows BILKING VA OUT OF BENEFITS -- There's incentive to lie. POW status has privileges and makes it easier .../article/Ale qm5gyxca805zo2byj4bz0rhtggctpbad97gdhr01 AP: POW benefit claimants exceed recorded Pows By ALLEN G. BREED Prisoners of ... Defense figures. But 966 purported Vietnam Pows are getting disability payments, the VA told AP. Being classified as a POW doesn't directly increase a veteran ... far as verification of stressors." Pows are exempt from copays for VA inpatient and outpatient care and medications. And Pows are entitled to an annual evaluation at... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfapr09/nf041109-8.htm
... BURYING KOREAN WAR U.S. POW -- This raises the possibility that details concerning the fate of other Pows may eventually surface. Richard Desautels was ...photo: AP) For more about Pows and Mias, use the VA Watchdog .../sessearch.php?q=pow+mia&op=or Story ... burying Korean War U.S. POW Revelation seems to undercut belief all Gis .... China had long insisted that all POW questions were answered at the conclusion of ... BURYING KOREAN WAR U.S.POW --This raises the possibility that details concerning the fate of other Pows may eventually surface. VA,Veteran... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfJUN08/nf062108-5.htm
.... COLORADO VET PROBED AS PHONY FOR POW CLAIM Claimed he served 30 years and ... was a mechanic, and never a POW. NOTE from Larry Scott, VA ...--- Crowley vet's POW claims raised red flag By Nancy Lofholm ... earn a Purple Heart. But the POW claims he made in May at a ... payments because of the trauma of his POW experience and claimed he served for 30 ... researching Crumley's claims with real Pows. He also turned to Doug Sterner ..., founder of the Missouri-based POW Network. They all reached the same finding: Crumley was never a POW and other claims he had made about... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfjul09/nf072709-5.htm
4. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 09-25-2007 #1 -- VA RENEWS OUTREACH PROGRAM TO FORMER POWs -- Looking for former POWs not currently using VA benefits and services, urging them to contact the VA to find out if they are eligible for healthcare, disability compensation and other services.nf092507-1.htm
...- VA RENEWS OUTREACH PROGRAM TO FORMER Pows -- Looking for former Pows not currently using VA benefits and services ... Page VA RENEWS OUTREACH PROGRAM TO FORMER Pows -- Looking for former Pows not currently using VA benefits and services ...ses search.php?q=pow+pows&op=or The VA's POW benefits web site is here.. ... Enlists Public s Help in Contacting Former Pows WASHINGTON - Do you know any former... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfSEP07/nf092507-1.htm
... Page VA RELEASES LATEST FACT SHEET ON POW BENEFITS -- Details compensation, medical ... War Former American prisoners of war (Pows) are eligible for special veterans benefits .... With nine out of ten former Pows having served in World War II, the estimated number of living Pows decreased from nearly 32,500 to ... rates for World War II and Korean Pows. Compensation As of August 2006, there were 16,884 former Pows receiving compensation benefits from VA. Approximately ... that provides the benefit when the former Pows was 100 percent disabled for a year or more. Medical Care Former Pows receive special priority for VA health-... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes SEP 06/newsflash09-05-2006-4.htm
.... POLS ASK VA TO INVESTIGATE BOGUS POW CLAIMS VA is paying disability to more than twice the number of verifiable Pows from Vietnam and Gulf War. NOTE ... them. There are only 21 surviving Pows from the first Gulf War in 1991 .... A similar discrepancy arises with Vietnam Pows. Only 661 officially recognized prisoners returned ... Defense figures. But 966 purported Vietnam Pows are getting disability payments, the VA ... our search engine for more information about Pows . ------ ...---- Investigation sought into POW discrepancies Associated Press DENVER (AP) ... identified a total of about 580 surviving Pows from the Vietnam War and the first... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfmay09/nf051909-1.htm
... NAGASAKI FALLOUT EXPOSURE AND LIFE AS A POW -- 90-year-old ... survived Nagasaki fallout exposure, life as POW By KAREN DORN STEELE THE SPOKESMAN- ... Mace had been laboring in a Japanese POW camp in Nagoya. In the 44 ... Mace said he and 24 other American Pows who had been making steel ingots in .... Mace said he and his fellow Pows knew nothing about the top-secret ... foot on Japanese soil, all the Pows would be killed. "If they ... to an atomic veterans group and a POW association. He has volunteered thousands of .... 7, 1943, 98 American Pows who remained were blindfolded and shot in... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfNOV07/nf111307-5.htm
8. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 10-21-2007 #5 -- EX-POWs FIND A WAY TO SET FREE MEMORIES -- Group's convention helps men and women connect with others who shared their ordeal.nf102107-5.htm
...2007 #5 -- EX-Pows FIND A WAY TO SET FREE MEMORIES ...... Social Bookmarking EX-Pows FIND A WAY TO SET FREE MEMORIES ...: Randy Squires) For more about Pows, use the VA Watchdog search engine ...ses search.php?q=pow+pows&op=or Story here. ...----- Ex-Pows find a way to set free memories ... German gunfire; the months in a POW camp. The former World War II ... he can talk. As 322 former Pows from around the country gather here this... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfOCT07/nf102107-5.htm
... VA Watchdog dot Org Search Engine. POW FRAUD LEAVES A TRAIL OF BETRAYAL - ...------- POW fraud leaves a trail of betrayal Dallas ... Schantag, co-founder of the POW Network, which has been exposing phony Pows since 1989. "It's ... outnumber the real thing. 660 Vietnam Pows Far fewer Pows returned from the Vietnam War than most .... Mr. Cordier, the former POW, said: "They damage the honor of the real Pows." Mr. Powell said the... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes MAY 06/newsflash05-14-2006-9.htm
... Printer-Friendly Version TALKING FREES FORMER Pows -- "Only another prisoner of ... experienced what we experienced." American Pows during Korean War. For more about Pows, use the VA Watchdog search engine .../sessearch.php?q=pow&op=and Story here. .../05262008_talking-frees-former-Pows.cfm Story below: -- ...---- Talking frees former Pows By MIKE BAILEY Columbian Staff Writer When ... grasp. So, the ex-Pows stopped trying. 'I remember when ... know their loved ones had even been Pows,' said Clydie Morgan, national... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfMAY08/nf052708-2.htm
