Tammy Duckworth actually said...

"We started the Illinois Warrior Assistance Program...to address the needs of veteran residents."

"If I am confirmed, I am going to make sure that we do not do that to the post-9/11 vets."

"is not that why we are fighting this war, so that Americans can express their point of view and have freedom of speech?"

"Just as our Nation learned from our Vietnam veterans that we must love the warrior regardless of our personal stand on the war, we must also learn the lesson of how Department of Veterans Affairs lost..."