FAN Request for I got SHIT/NO WAR for ALL Disabled Veterans in DENVER!!!!!

ratmando
ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
in Given To Fly (live)
I'm hoping you guys can help support me here... I'm a disabled veteran, as many of you know, but the VA has been especially cruel because the amount of mental health care for PTSD, and re-integration from being in the middle east has been abhorrent at best. They have less than 100 mental health professionals and of these only TWO were given the ability to prescribe any medications, on the front, while in the war. Denver is the last all PJ show of this tour... as opposed to bridge st... inappropriate venue for the cause, they are supporting kids and for a great reason. I want to be a champion to ALL other disabled people, but those of us who have PTSD, who have had to fight for months, and even YEARS just to find any help at all... and the kids-- seriously kids- 19-25 year old men and women returning from the front have had the least amount of support in any time in the VA history.

I love that so many of you are kindly supporting my "Hi-Five an ADA Fan" and that's been so warm. (other wheelchair and disabled fans are telling me that for the FIRST time in their entire fan-dom, people aren't just looking towards them as drink holders and potential seating positions...) I just want the band to know.. we're here, too. We have been there for them since the Mookie days, and we have survived, some of us, simply because the music has saved us from ourselves. We need to be heard, and we know that the voices of our band... Eddie's voice, and the instruments of Jeff, Mike, Stone, Matt, and BOOOOOOM... each have taken us away from some pretty scary places during our time in uniform, and more importantly, when arriving home.

Please please please please, pearl jam, please.. for the love of ALL disabled people, and ALL Veterans in the world... could you please dedicate a last show song to those of us who are hidden from the world? For us.. I Got Shit, and NO War! We need to change it..and an arena of voices is much stronger than a lone voice of a hidden Veteran, who isn't cared about enough to be given mental health care- and whose suicide rates are the highest in the history of any war the US has ever fought in.. including Viet Nam? PLEASE??

Cathe B. Jones, Honorarily Medically Discharged, United States Navy
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau
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  • ed243421
    ed243421 Posts: 7,730
    Please do this

    The whole world will be different soon... - EV
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    AUGUSTA 9-26-96
    MANSFIELD 9-15-98
    BOSTON 9-29-04
    BOSTON 5-25-06
    MANSFIELD 6-30-08
    EV SOLO BOSTON 8-01-08
    BOSTON 5-17-10
    EV SOLO BOSTON 6-16-11
    PJ20 9-3-11
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  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    To the top.
  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    Thanks Gang.. :) MAJOR and Sargeant thanks!!
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    and bumping like a 1970's roller dancer.
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    C'mon Pearl Jam, make this happen.
    ELITIST FUK
  • PorchgirlCO
    PorchgirlCO Colorado Posts: 1,377
    +1
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me...

    Orlando 4/24/92 & 8/23/92, Miami 3/28/94, Ft Laud 10/7/96, Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Missoula 9/30/12, EV Jax 11/24/12 & 11/25/12, Chicago (Wrigley) 7/19/13, Charlottesville 10/29/13, Charlotte 10/30/13, Tulsa 10/8/14, Lincoln 10/9/14, Denver 10/22/14, Jacksonville 4/12/16, Greenville 4/16/16, Telluride 7/9/16, Boston (Fenway) 8/5/16 & 8/7/16, Seattle (Safeco) 8/10/18, Boston (Fenway) 9/2/18 & 9/4/18, Dana Point 10/1/21 & 10/2/21, MSG 9/11/22, Denver 9/22/22, Austin 9/18/23 & 9/19/23.
  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    Thanks gang..keep it coming!!
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Full support bump. And thank you for your service, ratmando.
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  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    Thanks for giving me a reason to serve! :)
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Back to the top. :)
    ELITIST FUK
  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    Cmon folks, there's a 14 page thread about limiting sticker purchases but we can't get any momentum going here? Down is up, left is right, cats and dogs living together in harmony...what the hell is wrong with this place?
  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    Pizza and FREE BEER!!!!
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    up top
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  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    Love the Vets, free smiles given, hugs taken gladly
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    Push it up like satan's bed.
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • ed243421
    ed243421 Posts: 7,730
    denver bump
    The whole world will be different soon... - EV
    RED ROCKS 6-19-95
    AUGUSTA 9-26-96
    MANSFIELD 9-15-98
    BOSTON 9-29-04
    BOSTON 5-25-06
    MANSFIELD 6-30-08
    EV SOLO BOSTON 8-01-08
    BOSTON 5-17-10
    EV SOLO BOSTON 6-16-11
    PJ20 9-3-11
    PJ20 9-4-11
    WRIGLEY 7-19-13
    WORCESTER 10-15-13
    WORCESTER 10-16-13
    HARTFORD 10-25-13









  • CM228821
    CM228821 Posts: 8
    Bump!
  • prljmr316
    prljmr316 Denver, CO Posts: 162
    Bump
    John Strohmeyer
  • ratmando
    ratmando Outside of Portland, or somewhere like that Posts: 347
    THAT was an AMAZING outpouring.. SO much so that Eddie started the First encore talking about US- Veterans... and did two songs for US!!! YOU guys ROCKED the Denver show.. and if it wasn't just cool enough that he and the band played for us, they additionally did a special shout out to Dave Black's daughter HANNAH for her kidney transplant!!!!! Everyone of you are my best friend's for LIFE now. xoxoxoxoxo!!! and THANK YOU 10C and Pearl Jam for making sure the band got the WORD!!
    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

    Henry David Thoreau

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