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Tammy Duckworth: “I can understand pain and suffering and how service connection can actually cause long-term, unremitting, unyielding…”

On the recordJune 25, 2013
I can understand pain and suffering and how service connection can actually cause long-term, unremitting, unyielding, unstoppable pain.
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Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Duckworth empathizes with the long-term effects of service-related injuries.

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