307,000 vets died awaiting VA care, report says

[The River]

5. Where The Hell

are these vets located? Are there no telephones or VA hospitals they can walk into?

I enrolled 6 years ago and it only took a matter of days. Since then I've helped other vets get enrolled just as quickly. I helped my cousin enroll last year. He is a Vietnam era vet who was stationed in California for his entire tour but still got enrolled and started getting care within a few weeks.

As a group, we Vietnam vets are getting OLD. Older people do die at a higher rate than the young. Did these vets wait too long to ask for help? There has to be some explanation beyond just saying the VA is to blame for all the delays. Did the vet who waited since 1998 ever bother to place follow up calls or write letters? You can't just wait and hope. It helps to be proactive. Every Congressperson has (or should have) a staff member to help with constituent problems like this. How many bother to used that service or even knew they could?