The lead of Vets: Still waiting on benefits, the Mankato Free Press's coverage of yesterday's roundtable about veterans benefits, really says it all:
The three soldiers served in Iraq as part of a nearly two-year deployment.
They believe they and their fellow Minnesota National Guard soldiers served well.
And — speaking on the fifth anniversary of the start of the war — they really wish they could get the G.I. Bill payments they were promised.
The three National Guard sergeants, all Minnesota State University students, spoke at a veterans roundtable about their frustration with the delays in the payments owed to them, about the uncertainty about when the next deployment might come and about the complexity and communication problems rampant in the Veterans Affairs system. . . .
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