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...sort of legislation can only make a dent in the Viet Nam vet's profound sense of exclusion, his bruised conviction that America ?a nation that cherishes almost an ideology of its own fairness???has done him deeply wrong. The vet's first port of call, the Veterans Administration, seems to him abundant evidence that the nation he risked his skin for cares very little in return. The VA is, they say, a $23 billion-a-year bureaucracy devoted mainly to older vets (the World War II generation), a social service agency dispensing health care not to the wounded...
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