Government,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 22, 2011
Taking Care of Our Wounded Warriors
Congress and various presidents have only paid lip service to protecting our veterans.
Michael Waterstone
Fritz B. Burns Dean, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Email: michael.waterstone@lls.edu
In this second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln challenged a divided nation to "bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan." This is still the operating principle of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which is charged with providing veterans with health care and disability compensation. Yet over our history, honoring this commitment has been easier to say than do. A recent court decision from the federal appellate court...
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