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Slashing Vets Benefits in Time of War

By AAN Staff
april 11, 2003  04:31 pm
Slashing Vets Benefits in Time of War
The Department of Veterans Affairs is being targeted for billions in cuts. Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson looks at the case of Sgt. Joe Hooper, who won a Medal of Honor for valor in Vietnam, yet came home with a serious alcohol problem and died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 40. "He was a casualty of war, and you can expect more of the same after Iraq," David Willson, a retired Green River Community College librarian, editor of Vietnam War Generation Journal, and a Vietnam vet who worked with Hooper on a collection of war literature, tells Anderson. "Look at the history — this is a country made by war on the backs of vets who have never, ever been treated as promised."
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