over and that s the cost of war. reporter: but it took so long to get here. before media stories on burn pits first began popping up in 2008, the pentagon knew breathing in these fumes could be dangerous, but kept using burn pits. many service members described their symptoms being ignored or misdiagnosed within the va system. forcing them to seek expensive outside care. having so many doors shut in our face, being told that it s in my head. we did our job, they need to do theirs. reporter: the final hurdle, last month, as desperate veterans and their allies took to sleeping on the capitol steps to pressure republicans to clear a road block in the senate as their most vocal supporter median and activist jon stewart led a shame campaign. america s heroes who fought in our wars outside sweating their asses off with oxygen,
the health care and financial part of it, he was good. it was after he was put on entered into the va system after he was medically separated, is when everything kind of went to hell. the va denied him a prescription medication to mitigate an excruciatingly painful side effects from his cancer treatments, because of his $2,000 a month. so heath was suffering, and i asked my daughter and i d overdose him, but because the
what could a bill like this have done for your son-in-law? he was diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer, and as we all know it s from burn pit exposure. yes, he was active duty when he was diagnosed, so as far as the health care and financial part of it, he was good. it was after he was put on entered into the va system after he was medically separated, is when everything kind of went to hell. the va denied him a prescription medication to mitigate an excruciatingly painful side effects from his cancer treatments, because of his $2,000 a month. so heath was suffering, and i
is really what it is today 18 years later and it s become a journey, when they were first injured and we followed them through their days at walter reed and as they went back to the communities and started facing challenges with the va system, we began realizing that there was even more need and as time has traveled, we ve watched some things get better but we have also seen where the suicide rates have increased and to me if we lose one when they get home, that s just too many. anita: i couldn t agree with you more. we are going to get cut off. you do follow the people that you help all the way through. this is operationfirstresponse.org. you can look them up at the website. peggy barker, thank you so much. that s all for this hour. fox news live continues with alicia. time for ache and burn!
people since have you asked me range of topics over time would recognize we need take steps to ensure so we know where individuals are and we can track and check in with them. congresswoman hinson if you want to know where these individuals are i have a thought, why not en40s border laws in the first place. right. we need to give cbp and ice agents the tools to do their jobs not be handing out cell phones to illegal immigrants. what a slap in the face in terms of incentivizing illegal immigration. we hear reports they will take medical personnel from va system. designed to give healthcare benefits to our system already back logged and send them to the southern border? what world are we living in where this is reality? i have no idea. the biden administration clearly is not listening to the american people. they are not listening to people in border communities. they are not listening to iowans who are saying hey we have had enough with these dangerous drugs coming into our communit