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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 3, 2007

Returning Soldiers Deserve More Than Just Lip Service From Veterans Affairs

Forum Column - By Gordon P. Erspamer - The federal government's long history of broken promises to America's men and women in uniform is galvanizing a new lawsuit aimed at restoring some of their lost dignity.

FORUM COLUMN

By Gordon P. Erspamer

      With apologies to Stephen Colbert, let me propose some ideas for defining the word "lip service." My definition is drawn from a slice of the real world, the one faced by the 1.6 million American veterans returning from fighting the global war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.
      According to a recently released Department of Defense Task Force Report...

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