Just catching up, I don’t get email notification when a reply is made… don’t know why, I have Instant Email checked…but that’s another subject.
I haven’t yet gone to the trouble to start making a claim on the insurance company…strange, I usually worry about every penny : (
I agree in theory on the VA, notwithstanding the mess we see now uncovered, and as a Navy veteran myself I checked on the possibility I might qualify for hearing aids paid for by the VA (tax payers) I was not ever under “fire” but I worked on the Navy flight line in the late 1950s (no war going on, other than the cold war). I was told that if I suffer from tinnitus (SP? ringing in the ears) the fact that I worked on Naval Air Craft gave me a good shot at being approved. I do not have any ringing in my ears so I dropped the issue.