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On the recordApril 22, 2009
One veteran in particular was a Vietnam veteran and he told me how painful it was to try to track down his patrol, finding out that so many of them had died since their days in the service.
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Ann Kirkpatrick
Democratic · Arizona

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Kirkpatrick shares a Vietnam veteran's struggle to validate his service connection.

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