Patrick Bellon

Veterans for Common Sense

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Executive Director at Veterans for Common Sense

Patrick Bellon on KCRW

Here's the kind of decision required of the Veterans Administration: is that traumatic brain injury from high school football or a roadside bomb in Iraq?

Veterans and the VA: Worst Backlog in Washington

Here's the kind of decision required of the Veterans Administration: is that traumatic brain injury from high school football or a roadside bomb in Iraq?

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Despite all the issues that keep them apart, President Obama, Mitt Romney and every other American politician agree that American veterans should get the lifetime benefits they…

The Worst Backlog in Washington

Despite all the issues that keep them apart, President Obama, Mitt Romney and every other American politician agree that American veterans should get the lifetime benefits they…

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