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Veterans could use more help from the government

Re: "Still looking for a place to call home," April 21

I just wanted to say thanks for trying to help a fellow disabled veteran and reporting on just how little people care about veterans. People wave their flags, tack on a yellow ribbon bumper sticker and say how much they care, but they never follow through. The Veterans Administration is surely much better in helping us now, but when it comes to filing claims for disability through them it's waiting, waiting, more waiting, and then getting turned down most of the time.

Even if you have a VA physician stating your disability was caused by your active duty service, we are still being turned down by VA rating boards. The physician will say it's service connected, and the VA rating board will deny the claim for any bogus excuse. I have personally been subjected to this. Yet our government continues to allow this, and no one does anything to stop it.

Why doesn't the VA provide Kenneth LaCruz the house? We spend billions on a war and are afraid to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a house for a man who has served his country. Government officials waste millions of dollars, while some veterans and their families struggle just to survive.

Michael Oster, Springfield, W.Va.

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