Vets waiting for benefits from VA department

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-- -- Many of the men and women who fought this nation's wars.

Now have another battle on their hands.

And this time correspondent Douglas Kennedy tells us it's right here at home.

-- 112 days -- continuous combat.

There's Syriana and invasions hit terrible things same -- In 1944.

-- fuel -- spent months fighting the Japanese.

During World War II -- this is your uniform from the Pacific.

Where you won a purple heart and a bronze star -- did.

Tell me about that.

Well and made -- landing ending getting.

And that is -- I got me.

Bronze star the former staff sergeant and his fellow American soldiers were successful.

At defeating the Japanese.

But for years he's been unsuccessful at defeating the bureaucracy.

At the veterans administration the VA says it's still cannot decide whether -- one can hold down a regular job and this is ridiculous his daughter Becky.

Is outraged your father is nine.

He definitely cannot work.

True this -- says an atrocity that that.

DA would ask -- -- 93 year old let's have tough conditions could possibly even hold down a job but you'll end is not alone.

Veterans' rights groups say the VA is hopelessly slow in making what everyone calls simple decisions it's crazy it's insane.

That a veteran in his ninety's has to prove that he's unable to work.

In a statement the VA defended its benefits office saying disability claims of increased nearly 15%.

Since 2008.

Outpacing the BA's current claims processing capacity the VA says they have a lot of claims and everybody simply has to wait.

Unfortunately.

Your father doesn't have that much time to -- No not at 93 she says older veterans need to be fast tracked in the VA needs to use a little more common sense.

You know Tom -- Iowa Douglas Kennedy Fox News.

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