Peake said three of VA’s 57 regional offices were involved, without naming them. Veterans of Foreign Wars said they were told four regional offices — in Detroit, St. Louis, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Waco, Texas — were identified as having documents in shredding bins that should not have been there.

“The VA inspector general conducted a routine investigation of Detroit’s mailroom and discovered five documents in the shredder bin, then three pieces are found in St. Louis, two in Waco, and some more in St. Petersburg,” he said. “The question that begs to be asked and answered is how many veterans had their disability and compensation claims disappear down a paper shredder?”

The halt in shredding was ordered by Patrick Dunne, the retired Navy rear admiral sworn in just weeks ago as VA’s new undersecretary for benefits.

“Secretary Peake must hold everyone involved personally accountable for this disgraceful management failure,

"In a statement, VA Secretary James Peake said only a handful of documents were found among piles of documents set aside to be shredded. But he is not pleased."

Mentally insert a dead body found among documents to be shredded and the importance of this handful of documents that "often include personal records supplied by veterans that are not duplicated in government files and might be difficult to replace, such as certificates for births, deaths and marriage."

If someone was maliciously destroying government documents, would they not be on charges?

When these personal documents were handed to the government, do they then not become government responsible documents?

When you sign to serve the country. You become Government equipment. When your service is over you then become 2nd class citizen.

Did you see Boston Legal on TV recently? It was about Medical malpractice by the VA doctors. If they screw up, you as an ex service man have no legal recourse.

I'm sorry I fought for my country. Because I'm tired of being a second class citizen.

*Sigh
Ugh. This stuff makes me sick.