in his article, he writes about navy veteran hosea roundtree, whose claim for disability compensation was reduced, despite in suffering from flashbacks from his time in lebanon. the va has a duty to assist veterans in developing their evidence to support the claims, but the department reprimanded one of its employees for doing that. jamie fox lost her job after she wrote a memo to her boss arguing roundtree's disability benefits were being denied wrongfully. an internal documents showed that the department failed to properly address all of a thousand cases at the time. jamie fox is with us now from san francisco. she is a veteran herself of the u.s. navy. we are also joined by a reporter for "the bay citizen." you can see more of his work at baycitizen.org. his most recent book is "the war comes home: washington's battle against america's veterans." the piece appeared in "the san francisco chronicle " " this weekend. before we talk about the case of josÉ and jamie, if he could put this into broader context on this bed rinse de. >> across the country there are nearly bare -- nearly a m