Obama in 2008 on ‘Keeping Our Faith With Veterans’

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By Alyssa Canobbio

In a 2008 speech in Charleston, West Virginia, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a story of an 89-year-old World War II veteran who committed suicide in the parking lot of a Veterans Affairs hospital after he was constantly denied help.

Obama called it a betrayal of the ideals for which troops that risk their lives.

“We’ve all heard what it is like to navigate the broken bureaucracy of the VA. The impossibly long lines, the repeated calls for help that get you nothing more than an answering machine,” Obama said at the 7:45 mark of the video above.

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