Get a fully develop the claim . I would make just a general comment before i turn this over to my staff. We believe that the reduction of the backlog is a combination of a claim process and dbqs and then also accountability thats passed onto the review officers. We think those three things are exactly the types of answers to not only reduce the claims but to a manageable level but then reduce the backlog entirely. Let me if i can ask a followup question, i know they work hard to encourage veterans be served to file as complete a claim as possible, but i also recognize they need options to file any way they want. Whether that is on that forum or perhaps on paper. Is that accurate and can you explain why its important that veterans still have the option to file a claim any way they want . Ill defer that to the staff. Its important that veterans still have the opportunity to file a claim, paper on the standard or regular form. Currently they can take that regular piece of paper or as many
Coming up ne3 coming up next, the guggenheimlehrman military history awards. You can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is joe seiyu bunting. I am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. Stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. He made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. If you were a 20yearold rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. A successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service
History awards. You can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is joe seiyu bunting. I am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. Stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. He made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. If you were a 20yearold rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. A successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people in their 60s and 70s have earnest a large
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Thats why we are providing lower income students access to affordable internet so homework and just be homework. Cox alongith these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Families, all others welcome to dial in. What is the most important issue for veterans . Before we get to that, an update on the Midterm Election and where the balance of power stands. This morning, look at the u. S. House. Democrats have 192 seats. Republicans have 211. There are a number of how seats in the west that have yet to be called. That number will change. The balance of power in the senate has come down to three races. Arizona, nevada and georgia. We will continue to update you on election day throughout the program and throughout the weekend and into next week if it takes that long. Looks like it might. They could come town to the state of georgia, which is in a runoff in the election taking place on december 6. There has been a race called in oregon. The Associated Press head