Washington- Today, Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) highlighted four veterans in the infographic below, all of whom have been waiting unacceptably long for a decision on their disability claims from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).  Jeff Caron, Kenneth Abney, David Barrett, and Jason Derrough – shown in the infographic- are veterans from the Congressman’s home district and have been waiting for a combined 2,170 days for a decision from the VA.  The average wait time in...

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Terri Proud, a former legislator, claims that she was taken out of context in an article that   appeared in the Arizona Daily Star, written by a student at the University of Arizona.  The backlash to this single article resulted in the well-respected director of The Arizona Department of Veteran’s Services being asked to resign by the Governor and sent a shock wave through the veterans community.

Proud claims the “student journalist” misrepresented herself as from the Arizon...

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