Treatment Of Veterans

I have the opportunity of  a lifetime by having a Veteran as a Stepfather. He is a great man and has treated my siblings and I like we are his own children. He fought for our country when he was called upon and never thought twice about it. Now his health is not the greatest and goes to VA clinic for his appointments and medications. I have gone on many of these appointments with him and feel a great tragedy is being done to all of our Veterans who depend on our government to uphold their end of promise about benefits. For example, just recently, my stepfather went to visit psychatrist at the VA clinic for a doctor appointed visit. This doctor took him off his seizure medication that has been working for over four years and put him on a different one. Not a week later this man went from walking with a cane and getting around well to wheel chair and looking like he had a major stroke. Needless to say I was not a very happy person. This happened a month ago and there has been very little improvement since his medications have been changed again. I have sit in the clinic with him and watched how our Veterans are ushered around like cattle from line to line and having to sit waiting for over an hour or longer for appointment that was made at a certain time. They come in wheel chairs, on oxygen tanks, walking, barely able to move, and in many other conditions. I feel that they deserve better than this for the sacrafices that they have made. I am not trying to make waves because my stepfather is afraid if I do that he will not receive his full benefits that he is trying to get right now. But it seems to me that he may not receive his benefits at all if the doctors keep up their treatment methods. Who am I the doctor asks, let me tell you!  I am his child that is mad that is who I am.  You have treated this man this way and pretty much used him as a guinea pig but we are suppose to just stand by and let this happen.  This is a  man who has children and grandchildren.  This man has fought in war to help our country and foreign countries.  He has righted many wrongs and been an example for us all who have had the privilege of calling him Dad, brother, and friend.  I have seen this man laugh, love, shed tears, worry, and make do on what he has. He has not ever ask for much.  When needed he has always been there for us and given us advice. He is a Patriotic American who always calls his brothers that he fought with and checks on them. He would go to the ends of the earth for anyone if asked to do so. Yet the government turns a blind eye on him and hundreds like him. Is this going to be the future medical care that our troops who are fighting now are going to receive when they return?  I surely hope not! All veterans deserve better treatment than this.  I know without a doubt that there are many more stories out there like this one. What happen to the checks and balances system in our country.  As a nation of Americans we should stand up for our veterans, if for no other reason because we care.  Our Veterans won't say anything about their treatment because of the fact that they are dealing with the government on getting their benefits and know without a doubt that they can be turned down without any reason what so ever.  They go to war to fight and then have to come back home and fight for what they rightfully deserve.  How is this okay?  How can we keep turning a blind eye?  If this was happening to one of us, this man would be fighting mad.  I am so very proud to call this man my stepfather and hero.  I hope to not only to be able to tell him but show him as well.  Thank you Pop and to every Veteran for all that you have done and continue to go through.  Words may not ever be enough but they come from the heart.