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The man brought in to restore credibility to the Department of Veterans Affairs had some explaining of his own to do Tuesday.
Secretary Robert McDonald corrected a misstatement that he made last month on the CBS Evening News about his own military record after the statement was questioned by several retired officers.
This comes, of course, at a time of controversy around prominent journalists who have been accused of inflating their war records. “That was wrong and I have no excuse,” McDonald said Tuesday.
The secretary apologized for what was said during an encounter when he falsely told a 
homeless veteran in Los Angeles that he had served in the special forces. The comment was captured by CBS News last month for a segment on this broadcast.
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