WBAL Early Today May 28, 2012
their commander in chief. the soldiers who recently survived combat. a staggering 45% of veterans are filing for disability benefits. that's a historic rate. more than 700,000 former soldiers have applied to the department of veteran affairs for compensation to injuries they say are service related. many of the americans newest veterans mostly from the afghanistan and iraq wars say they have multiple injuries from bomb blasts. it's more than double the number who did so after the first gulf war in the early '90s. well, memorial day festivities could be washed out for some folks in t...