Good morning and welcome, everyone. This is joint hearing of the subcommittee on disability assistance and Memorial Affairs an oversight and investigation will come to order. I first want to take a moment to thank my colleagues, chambering man. Ranging member esty who should be along this morning and Ranking Member Kuster Holding the hearing on important issue were facing helping gulf war veterans get benefits they earned. It should go without saying we have a duty to take care of the men and women who have been wounded while serving in our military. Unfortunately too many injured gulf war veterans are not being taken care of. Va estimates 44 of gull war veterans develop gulf war illness, yet 26 of those veterans are receiving benefits. Something doesnt add up. On march 15th, 2016 during a similar joint hearing on gwi claims va, va testified that it was taking steps to improve service for gulf war veterans. Yet one year later, gao found va is still only approving 17 of claims of gulf w
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Speaker, warren perry. From memphis,ly tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. , while women walt whitman and the civil war. Elvis,cowrote office which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. Here he received one of tims secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of library of perry theater. I would like to introduce amy well, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have one come up here. Warr come up here. Thank you. E thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great history. We think it is such a perfect the