David M Ryba's Page

Veterans Media Services uses other media sources, besides the internet and television, to call attention to our veterans and the fine groups, like Dryhootch, who serve them. One of those other media sources is Amateur Radio. I’ve been a FCC licensed amateur radio operator since the early 1980s. These days I own and operate an internet radio link station under the call sign N9MBI, which gives myself and other Ham Radio operators global access to other link stations world wide. Even if your not a… Continue

Hi everyone. I thought I'd leave a post here to inform everybody that the Wreaths Across America event photos taken by Veterans Media Services staff photographers… Continue

I just got through watching a news segment on WGN (Channel 9) Chicago on Veterans Benefits. Joseph Scott McCarthy, a veterans advocate, was on talking about his new book entitled “Checks for Vets.” His book covers all aspects of VA pensions. For anyone interested you can find out more about his new book at: www.checksforvets.com

So many vets are unaware about VA benefits that are available to them. I, myself, did not know I qualified for the VA pension… Continue

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I’m Dave Ryba and I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I dropped out of high school and joined the Army in 1968 at the age of seventeen. I was thrust from childhood into an adult world that I was neither physically or emotionally prepared for. That’s where it started. This condition caused me life long problems that went undiagnosed and untreated until 2005. At that point I was in such bad shape emotionally that I decided to go to the VA to seek help. I’m glad I did.

In 2005 I w… Continue