A Juneau veteran who spent the last 15 years of his life fighting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over what he claimed was a life-altering misdiagnosis died last week in a Seattle hospital.
George Messerschmidt, 59, who served on active duty from 1981 to 1985 as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, claimed the VA had been treating him for the wrong disease for 15 years before they caught their mistake.
