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think like a child. >> the veterans have to take a two-hour drive to find a psychiatrist in los angeles. >> and i learned the v.a. is doing a good job. i don't understand that. if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." but stick around, here's chuck todd with "the daily rundown." if it's wednesday, it's victory lap day. will it be a tea party pulse in nebraska, a democratic deferral in west virginia and did book are feel a backlash in new jersey? also this morning, terrible tragedy overseas as hundreds are dead in a turkey coal mine collapse. we'll have an update on the rescue team still trying to save some trapped workers. and back here at home, the s didn't stand for station but some senators want to put harry truman's name on d.c.'s historic
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train hub. claire mccaskill is here and the politics of putting politician names on public places. >> if it's wednesday, we have election results. a new generation of republicans is rising in nebraska as outside groups claim victory in the senate race. ben sachs, a former bush official, who was endorsed by a host of national conservatives and tea party groups comfortably won his primary with nearly 50% of the vote, beating back an 11th hour surge from banker sid dinsdale. shane osbourne, supposedly the chief rival, ended up finishing
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third. 17 outside groups are claiming to put some money into sasse's campaign. all of them quickly declared victory because every one of them was responsible, right? freedom works ignored the fact they had originally endosrsed hs opponent. "ben sasse won this race because he never stopped fighting for conservative principles." if this is the only "win" for the national tea party group, it was a failure. you had paul ryan and the national review supporting him, claiming his win as a tea party victory is like claiming senator
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marco rubio was also a win just for the party. what kind of senator will he be? will he be the thorn in the leadership side? or is it more principal conservative who is play ball once in a while? not fully my way or the highway type of guys. sasse told me yesterday he plans to be a team player and despite the bad blood with senator mcconnell he will absolutely support mcconnell as leader if he's the choice of the conference. and last night he said the republican he wants to emulate is jack kemp. >> kemp said that we can only fight big government with bigger ideas and that we have an obligation to offer alternatives to liberalism's path of decline. we have to offer real plans, renewed opportunity and conservative optimism, and
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that's what this campaign has been about for the last 11 months and it's what it will be about for the next 174 days. >> sounds a lot more like paul ryan than anyone else. he'll face democratic opponent dave domina. you got to ask yourself what's going on with the nebraska democratic party? this was a competitive state party for decades, exxon, carey, nelson. amazing what's happened. barely a competitive state party anymore in nebraska. pete rikts, son of jjoe rickets.
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>> sometimes in politics you fight hard, you come up short and we fought as hard as we could. i thought that maybe god had served me up enough humble pie for two years but here comes another piece. >> you need somebody who has pressure perspectives, new ideas, a track record of success in the private sector, someone who has done this in the real world. i am that candidate. >> ricketts will face jack hasslebrook in the fall. and lee terry barely survived, win big just 2,600 votes after spending more than $900,000 on the race. he hit voters were flyers saying
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th his opponent funded illegal immigration health care. >> national raspberry see the open democratic seed as one of their best chances to capitalize. west virginia will have its first woman senator and natalie tennant also won her race. in listening to the candidates last night, it wasn't easy to tell them apart. >> my vision is a west virginia where we have jobs, we have an economy, we have a voice in the senate that doesn't fight us, that lets us create jobs with
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our energy industries, that creates a health care bill that helps families and doesn't hurt small businesses. >> my focus is in moving forward tonight is getting our records out but for me it's show how long we can create good paying jobs in west virginia and that comes from our energy sector, from our manufacturing, from our technology. >> in west virginia, democratic representative nick rahall won his race. he'll face evan jenkins in the fall and former maryland senator alex mooney aligned himself with tea party groups, he won his primary. finally, there was an election yesterday to pick the next mayor
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of new jersey's largest city, newark's most expensive election ever, ras baraka will become the next mayor. he won 54 of the vote. baraka, who suffered on city council has been a critic. >> the republicans are in the best shape in decades in virginia to break a 23-cycle losing streak and win that contest. joining me who believes that cycle will continue, natalie tennant. good morning and congratulations on your nomination. >> thank you. it is an honor to be nominated
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by twest virginia. >> as you know weeks had a tragedy in one of our coal mines late wednesday night and two of our coal miners were killed in a tragic accident or tragic situation. just like we're hearing around the country and around the world in those coal miners, we know that heart break all too well. that's why i'm running, to protect our coal miners. my first act would be to sign on to the safety act to protect our cole miners. >> let me ask you this. the national democrats are in many ways saying they're not sure you have a chance, that the brand doesn't play the same way that it used to. i guess i'll ask you, this why should west virginia send a democrat to the u.s. senate rather than a republican?
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>> this race is not about democrat/republican, this race is about west virginia. and for that exact same reason that i talk about, that you can have all of this talk, whether it's in washington or trying to make this a national race. but the issues are here in west virginia and the concerns are in west virginia, that we want to keep our kole miners working but we want to protect them at the same time that, we want to have good paying jobs. and a focus that we really need to have here in west virginia is and what people are concerned about is the drug abuse problem that we have in west virginia and across the country. and those are the issues that west virginians are talking about. and that's why i am running, that this is about the people that, this is about putting west vachlts first and focusing on west virginia and making sure that we have the voices of west virginia presented. >> i understand that on west virginia but if a majority of the democratic party nationally
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is in one position, for instance, on energy policy, why should a west virginia voter send a democrat there who may not be able to woo their party? why shouldn't it make more sense, well, they'll send a republican because the republican party seems to be more incentivized to support the coal history than the national party on the democratic side? >> well, what west virginians do is they look at the can't, too and they look at the person and they look at the record that i have as secretary of state, one who cuts a budget and saves money and gives back $3 million to the taxpayers of west virginia. and, you are know, when we take a look at this and you take a look about what's important for west virginia and you talk about those jobs and those good paying jobs, we know that they come from our energy sector and it's the west virginia message of,
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yes, we do have coal. you know that we also have natural gas. but more importantly, we also have the manufacturing know-who i. we have technology and research and all of that combined is what we push forward is the message that we need from west virginia. i'll tell you, chuck, that you know that we do technology and research here in west virginia. you've heard of 3d printing. i know you have. so with that combination of being able to fuel the manufacturing and use our research and technologies to push all of this in a concerted effort. >> we played clips from you and your opponent, it doesn't sound like there are many differences between the two of you. so that the question is do you want somebody who is going to conference with the republicans or somebody who is going to conference with the democrats? what is the biggest difference, in your mind, between the two of you? >> well, you look and up see the
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biggest difference is that i represent west virginia values, i represent the people of west virginia where for far too long she has represented washington and wall street. what you look at here is you look at someone who is going to vote for a major increase. parents and people who work a 40-hour work week should be able to feed their children and should be able to pay rent because 67% of those on minimum wage are women. you have someone who has represented virginia and someone who has represented washington for far too long. >> what do you say to the national democrats who appear to have given up on your race? >> well, i'm not sure that you and i are talking to the same ones because when you look at west virginia, it is a democrat state. when you look at west virginia and our 2-1 voter registration
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advantage and even the numbers that came out if you look specifically at the numbers that came out within my race from election day yesterday. you know weeks have a 2-1 voter registration advantage. we know that a good ground game -- >> this is going to be a goo -- a 55-county tour of talk lieutenant tour. people are being able to give their voices. that's what this race is all about, on the ground. i do have the support. you've read that the democratic senatorial campaign committee is committed to investing into a field game. with our 2-1 voter registration that, is a game changer and it's how we're going to win this race and i'm going to win. >> natalie tennant, the new nominee for west virginia. please stay on.
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security. according to the group, it shows the government's report that shows human activity has had a dramatic impact on our climate for years. there are still some, like florida governor marco rubio who say that is up for debate and then tried to clarify yesterday. >> i do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. >> i have no problem with advances in technology but i by no means are going to go out and tell people if we do these things they're proposing by changing these laws and the way we're conducting our policy, that it will have any impact on our weather because it's not going to do that. >> and three separate times
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house republicans have voted down legislation stating that climate change is real as far as having a man-made impact. this echos similar debates we've had on the environment in the past. yet changes were ultimately made. in 1974 a pair of california scientists became the subject of an intense p.r. campaign after that concluded that chemicals were destroying the ozone layer. the wall street journal published multiple articles on the issue. but the science was vindicated when a massive hole in the ozone layer was discovered over antarctica. when you look at the debate on acid rain, it's the same story. high levels of pollutants were
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mixing with chemicals in our atmosphere. president reagan dismissed a proposal to deal with acid rain after it was criticized as wasteful spending. the president himself dragged his heels for year arguing more research was needed. >> what we've been trying to do is avoid going down some avenue that would disappoint us and we wouldn't really solve the problem but we would have wasted our resources. >> where reagan saw political liability, george h.w. bush saw an opportunity. the white house called the program remarkably successful. joining me now, christie todd whitman, she was head of the environmental protection agency under president george w. bush.
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does it not feel repetitive to you, the debates we've had about the ozone layer and acid rain, one side saying are we sure the science is right and the other side saying the science is right, what are you guys talking about? is it as familiar to you as it looks to me? >> it is. and it's very disappointing that it continues this way because we've seen the past actions that we took to address the cfcs and acid rain had an impact. the narrowing of the hole in the ozone layer and the resources of the lakes that were dying in maine and new hampshire, we've seen cause and effect. you have 300 scientists on this latest report, an outside of some 30 or 40 who have vetted it from the outside.
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the american security project has a whole site up on its web site talking about the threat to national security. now you have the military stepping forward the way they are. it's time for us to understand that we can take these actions as we've done in the past and not crater the economy. the economy was doing very well in the 70s and 80s, thank you and the 90s. we've proven we can do it in a way that keeps the economy growing. >> where is this sort of fear? and that's what it looks like to me. you probably have individual conversations with various lawmakers who privately say one thing and publicly are fearful of having a backlash if they talk too much about climate change. i guess my question is how do you change the politics inside the republican party on this issue? >> well, it's tough and it's going to take people to do it. i think the public is getting more engaged in this issue.
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they're seeing the ever more frequent and more severe storms and tornadoes. while no scientist will say any specific tornado or system is due to climate change but this is what they expect with climate change. that's always the challenge is the environment. you're talking about issues that most people feel are way out that, over which they have no control. they don't see the daily impact. one of them, i don't know if you saw the study that came out a while ago that said that last year responding to -- dealing with responding to natural disasters cost the country $ 100 billion, $300 for every man and woman in the country. that's starting to be real money because that's taxpayer money, that's our money. we don't like that. let's start to get smart because we're not going to stop climate
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change but we can slow it down and manage our response to it, get out of the more dangerous zones and handle it in a way that keeps the economy growing and is sustainable for the future. >> i think last year there were 40 separate $1 billion natural disaster clean-ups around the world. i think that's in the same report you're referring to. before we go, give me the one piece of moderate, small legislation that could get done by this congress that would prove to some skeptics that man can do to something about this, that could be done short term, as almost like a test to say, see, this can have an impact in a positive way on climate chang? >> i don't know what one small piece of legislation would to be do that. we have the proof in what we have done in the past. when president george h.w. bush happy 41 went through in 1990 the bitter battle and it was
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both sides of the aisle to get at acid rain because of that, that was a bitter battle. and we've seen the results. it reinvigorated an economy that was negatively impacted. i don't know what small piece of legislation you could put forward now other than to say look at the record. look at where we've taken action before and the impact that it had. look at how the economy's grown, let's be sensible about how we look at this in the future. we're not causing it slowly but we're clearly having an impact and there are things we can do to slow it. >> hopefully people will remember history. >> good to talk to you, chuck. >> time for the first number in today's data bank. two. that's how many days john conyers has to appeal a decision that keeps him on the ballot for his congressional seat.
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feature, a fight that never seems to end and that's the fight over the confederate flag. since 2003 georgia has offered a license plate backed by the group sons of confederate veterans that displays the confederate flag. in february the plates were redesigned to feature the flag more prominently. jason carter, jimmy carter's grandson who is running for georgia, would not commit to banning the plates. the license plate fight is just the latest round in what has been a decades-long battle over the symbol of the confederacy. mississippi continues to use a flag with the symbol of the confederate battle flag but perhaps no state has had a more tumultuous history with its state flag than georgia. it was the first national flag of the confederacy. there was no state symbol on the flag. in 1902, the georgia state
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assembly stipulated that be -- the code of arms be painted on the blue. and then along with legislation a bill incorporated the old battle flag in the georgia state flag. this was the official flag until 2001 when democratic governor would i barnes brokered a compromise to chang the flag to this one, a seal in the middle and the five flag flags that had flown over georgia, including the confederate flag beneath it. >> i am a southerner. my wife is named may reid.
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i like collard greens, my great grandfather was captured at viksburg fighting for the confederacy. i'm proud of it but i'm also proud that we have come so far. i believe jesus would change the flag to unite people. >> at the time no republican had been elected governor of georgia since reconstruction. during the election, signs appeared with the words "boot barnes, elect perdue." when perdue took office in '03, he promised to offer referendum on the flag. instead a bill passed giving georgia its third new flag in 27 months and stipulating a nonbinding referendum on the flag. the fight over the flag is far from over. this week georgia's court of appeals has run into democratic
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opposition after civil rights groups question his vote removing the emblem from the flag. he tried to explain that vote at a hearing yesterday. >> my vote was never intended to be disrespectful. it was never intended to fail to acknowledge the sacrifices that an enormous number of people made from dr. king to others for the struggle that ultimately succeeded in equality. i don't think anyone can disprove if someone is accusing someone of being a racist. how do you disprove that? i think the best evidence that i would have that the people that know me best don't believe that in me. >> so far the white house has stood by boggs, despite growing democratic opposition. boy, that flag fight just keeps on biting. up next, a sneak peek inside the new memorial museum ahead of tomorrow's official dedication.
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i want to give you an update on a story we told you about earlier this morning in western turkey where there's been a devastating explosion and fire inside a coal mine. almost 800 workers were inside the mine when it exploded yesterday. crews believe 120 more could still be alive but trapped deep underground. it's turkey's worst mining accident in more than 20 years. that is a lot of potentially living people trapped right now. >> today marks the start of a week-long dedication period for the september 11th memorial museum at ground zero. more than a decade in the making, it takes people underground to view exhibitions about the attack and nearly 3,000 victims. it doesn't open to the public until next week but president obama and the first lady will tour it before the ceremony.
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first responders will get a chance to see it before it opens. ron allen got a chance to see it. ron, it must have been very moving. tell me about it. >> it was. it takes you back to that incredibly horrific moment in history. it's taken at least eight or ten years to build. everything about it has been so emotional. the most moving aspect of it all are the countless deeply moving stories of the survivors, rescuers and the thousands who lost their lives that day. the museum rests on bedrock, seven stories down. very real reminers everywhere of that fateful day. taking us along for a very personal first look, patricia riley, who lost her sister, lorraine lee. you really feel like you're in the place where this happened,
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don't you? >> yeah, you do. >> some exhibits riley can't bring herself to look at. >> i don't ever watch that. i always turn my head. >> that's the south tower collapsing? >> right. >> her sister worked in the south tower on the 103rd floor. riley was searching for something very specific. >> oh, there it is. oh. >> her sister's office i.d. card, one of the furew personal items her family recovered. >> i succeeded in having her remembered. that was very important to me. >> we invited every family to contribute something. the vast majority did. it is a museum about people and stories. >> it tells the story of new york and shanksville and the pentagon and here in 1993, after
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her first brief look, riley seemed overwhelmed yet satisfied because she found her sister. >> long after we were gone, i wanted people to see her name and think about her as a person, along with all the people who died that day. >> it is a very overwhelming experience and there's still controversy, complaints it costs $24 to see it. 9/11 families and several other groups do not have to pay. the memorial atop the museum is free and open to the public. it opens to the public on the 21st. >> ron, very quickly, does any of the money go to anything other than running the museum? >> the money goes to running the memoriam atop of it, where the names of etched on the memorials at the twin towers. but they're still fighting for other federal funding, especially for the security
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aspect of this, which is millions and millions of dollars for such a unique place for the entire country. >> thanks for that insider preview there. i really appreciate it. coming up next, i have senator claire mccaskill. she'll be talking about a lot of things. but first you're tdr georgia soup of the day where they're serving chilled peach soup, at the jekyll island club. cars are driven by people. they're why we innovate. they're who we protect. they're why we make life less complicated. it's about people.
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presidents. the newly named william j. clinton building is home to the e.p.a. like all too many things in washington, the world of monuments and memorials has a lot of politics into it. the move to rename the ronald reagan airport faced stiff competition. dwight eisenhower is at the center of another naming controversy here in d.c. congress authorized a memorial to the president but eisenhower's grandchildren have denounced the resign, calling it insufficiently respectful. and now a bill was introduced to rename washington union station
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as truman station. the station is owned by the federal government. congress does have the power to change the name if it chooses. d.c.'s mayor said he wants the city council to have input into the naming as well. and present presided in the renaming of a state department building in 2000. others have voiced concern naming the station after the first president to order the use of the atomic bomb. harry truman once wrote "when i was presiding judge of the jackson county court, people wanted to name every road in the county for me and i wouldn't allow it. i have no desire to have road, bridges or buildings name after me." joining me now is senator mccaskill. why not abide by harry truman's
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words? what's the motivation? >> there's no question that harry truman might be a little cranky about this but i think he's someone who didn't take himself as seriously. he didn't have a huge ego. he was a man that walked to the station when he left the presidency and would walk back home, with go on vacations with his wife and his family in the car. and by the way, i think i'm going to have a lot of bipartisan support. i've watched republicans for year claim the truman mantle for straight talk and guts and courage. eleanor holmes norton, she reached out to us and said she wanted to co-sponsor it. i've not yet had a republican say to me they didn't think it was a good idea. this is deserving.
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i think people forget some of. courageous decisions harry trumman made. >> i am a huge fan of always having a president get something here because i think it's at a minimum, i can take my kid and they say, well, who is that named for? i tell them it's for this president and here's what's going on one, two and three. but do we get to the point where we overname things in washington? that is a concern among some traditionalists. what do you say to that? >> i think washington is in fact our nation's capital. i think people come here because they expect to see memorials to our history. they expect to go to memorials for our great presidents. i think they could expect to arrive at union station that has truman's name on it. i thit it's part of the appeal
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of wanchshington d.c. to come a see what a beautiful place it is and a beautiful station. >> quickly, i want to ask you about general shinseki, who is going to be appearing before the senate tomorrow. are you confident in the leadership right now? >> i am not afraid to call for anyone's resignation. i would not be afraid to call for his resignation as soon as we get to the bottom of the allegations that are made. i want to be sure we get a complete investigation and we don't politicize this. our veterans don't deserve to be politicized. they just deserve the best we can give them. i want to let the investigation be completed and then have a jimt as to whether or not he needs to go. >> i'm going to say that this is
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a quick question and not an easy answer. why do we have a v.a. anymore? is it too hard to keep two separate health care systems? >> there as a lot more transparency in the v.a. system. it's easier to keep track of the care veterans are getting or not getting. if you talk to veterans, they want their own system. i think we ought to honor the commitment that they would have their own health care system in return for making sacrifices for us. >> senator claire mccaskill. for the truman union station, we'll see if it happens. it will be interesting to watch. thank you for coming on. >> trivia time. there have been three speakers of the house who have hailed from georgia. congratulations to today's winner, remington knight.
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time now for the my ta takeaway. last night, congressman liter ri barely held on to win his h primary in nebraska, but in both races, there was a common thread that tells us something important about president obama's top remaining domestic goal and the immigration reform, and it remains a political time bomb for the party. and president obama said that there is a narrow window to pass immigration reform before the mid-term elections, but if history is a guide, it will need to pass before and not after. if it does not pass, we will know why. in nebraska, when candidates are in doubt, they reach for immigration and not president obama or any other thing to separate themselves. they emphasize the need for immigration to get done. and tom donahue said that immigration reform is necessary for any republicans to have a
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chance of winning back the white house in 2016. and the tea party group said that they need to get in front of the issue or behind it, but as long as it is viewed as an effective line of attack in the prima primaries, it is difficult to see how it would get done in the congress. and it and it is a classic hard and a rock issue, because they have to get it behind them in the national presidential election, but the grass roots on this thing, it is burning bright and it is dividing the party. so boehner could try to get immigration reform done, and it is going to cause a split like nobody's business, and if not, the presidential candidate is going to lose latino vote by a huge margin. and at last, a stay for a death row inmate? chris jansing is going to talk to the family of the death row inmate. that's how you'll increae market share. any questions?
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six-state primary. should mitch mcconnell be feeling the heat this morning? vital signs, hillary clinton is delivering a speech in the capital and maybe she has something to say about dr. rove's 2016 dyiiagnosis and we will keep our eye on that. and a stay of execution, a texas inmate is spared hours before the lethal injection and we will talk to the attorney who helps to keep this inmate alive and hear from the family of the victim as the debate reignites over capital punishment in ameri america. i'm chris jansing, and veterans are fuming about the way they are treated at v.a. hospitals packed the town hall in phoenix last night. >> they have done nothing but harass me and i have turned over a claim for depen si two years ago and it is not done yet. >> and when i went into the service, i was promised to get the best health
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