I don't have battle wounds.

Occasionally, the idea of going to the VA would cross my mind,

but I would immediately dismiss it because I had a job,

I have a good income, I have all my arms and my legs

and my vision, and I don't have any battle wounds at all.

And so I just didn't think it was right

to go to the VA and be treated.

I kind of wanted to, but to become a person who gets treated

you have to have a disability rating, and I don't like

the word disability, I don't think most of us do.

Every time I picked up the paperwork, which is daunting,

I would maybe write a line or two, and then I would immediately

put it down because it was way too intimidating.