Some people have no family.
The military didn't know what to do when I put no one down as next of kin to notify/get payments etc. I told them I had no family, but they just couldn't stand an empty block.
Some people have a difficult time understanding that some of us have NO family.
Understood. One of my earlier mobilizations was snafu'ed because I could not tell them where my (first) wife was. Didn't know. Sagebrush mentioned that frustration.
Blanket: If he needs it; if he earned it! Get it for him and not the slackers who play the system. Try to make the VA work like it is supposed to; else then look like Sagebrush said, into non-VA organizations. Church helps some guys.