"Let’s be absolutely clear: veterans’ disability benefits are not
charity. They are compensation owed for injuries and conditions incurred
in the line of duty — promised by a government that asked men and women
to risk their lives and health, often irreversibly, on its behalf."
"When my generation came home from Vietnam to an ungrateful nation, we
committed that never again would America forget those who were willing
to lay it all down in defense of our liberties."
