Wounded Marine Fights VA For Care
Casey Owens wasn’t expected to live after he lost both legs in Iraq. But he made it out of a military vehicle alive and to Bethesda Naval Hospital where CBS News national security correspondent David Martin first met him in October of 2004.
“I don’t remember anything, but I know that it was a mine,” Owens said.
Everyone would agree the U.S. government owes Casey Owens the best possible medical care. No one who hears his story could say he got it.
“I don’t know why I’m just depressed, crying a lot and feeling down, just feeling hopeless,” Owens said.
He said that to the latest doctor he turned to in his desperate search for the help he was not getting from the Veterans Administration.
“Dealing with the VA and being held up and not getting the care that I feel I wanted or treatments that I see fit,” Owens said. “That’s a very discouraging thing for me because I did my part and their part is to help heal us and they failed me.”