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My Grandpa set metal detectors off because the Japanese frags in him and walked with a limp until the day he died. He never drew a penny for it.

Well he and others should have received some form of disability. The sin a turds are giving themselves raises every year while one-third of our guys are patrolling Iraq without protected vest and will not get them until sometime in December.

The VA has written regulations that deal with all this. For example if you lose an arm you get a 20% rating, lose a leg 40%, a hand 20% etc.. If you have multiple injuries the additional is not added to the others but added to what's left. Example, lose two hands and it's not 20% plus 20% = 40%. It's 20% plus 20% of the 80% left and then if you only have an arm half blown off it could be 10%.

In the case of this woman two legs partly functional (she can walk and work) 30% sounds about the right amount.

Just FYI: I got a 30% rating for a bad heart valve and they said it wasn't 60% because my heart still functioned. I guess a heart that didn't function gets a 60% rating and not 100%? The total of all my ratings came to 80% but the offical rating is 56% because of their formula and then this is rounded to the nearest 10% so my rating is 60% disabled and I have priority one status which is higher then someone with agent orange etc.. I've never used the VA in 18 months retired because I pay for my own insurance and don't want to take away from the people who really need it.

Now the kicker: Disabled in VA terms isn't the same as a state rating or medicare etc.. VA Disabled is how much income would you lose if you couldn't work in your military job in the civilian world - it's not welfare and look at it as paying to fix for damage when you bring back a damaged rental car with your body being the car and the Gov't rented it for your service and is paying for the damage it caused, i.e, service connected disability !