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Show REE EB.ROB RT 0 R H 7 2 02 BEN: Well how about did you ever have any nightrnar fr m b ing in P W amp or even jumping out of the airplane? Did that ever reoccur in a dream? REE: Well, since you mentioned that, there is one thing. When I came here when I was at Los Angeles, California, I heard about this, so I went in there and they had m fill out an application for this medical. And they said, "Was this service connected?' I was thinking about hayfever, allergy. So I said, "No." They said "Do you have insurance?' I says, "Yes." "Can you pay for this?" "Yes." This girl says, "I don't think we can." She calls in the supervisor. He goes over the same thing. Finally . .. BEN: Is this for the POW benefits you heard about? REE: Yes, that's right. He said, I heard him say to himself, "You sure you can pay for this?" He had his pen held up there. If I had said, "Yes," he would have put that down. But he looked at me and he said, "What dope are you?" So I said, "But I did hear about this POW. I was a POW." "POW!" He put POW across my application in letters two inches high. So ever since then, you know. So I came up here and I had a broken ankle, so I went in there. And I had a girl in there that said, "We're going to get you disability." I said, "What?" She said, "Yeah, fill in this form." I said, "I'll fill the form in." So I filled the form in and they said that, oh, I had this one fellow who says, "You got to remember one thing if they question you about disability. Flashbacks. Remember that flashbacks." BEN: (laughs) Who told you this? REE: This was a POW; he was a Filipino. I can't tell of flashbacks. Anyway, I filled the form out, which they wanted to have a record anyway. So I received a letter that they'd gotten my thing, and said, "If you want to apply for disability, you' re going to 99 |
