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At the v.a. cress jess it's very complicated to figure out how to take care of these veterans and through this incredibly ridiculous bureaucracy and all these parliamentary gimmicks that these guys slide in at the last second. can i understand why people are confused about it it's confusing and complex and the senate doesn't help anything when it comes to transparency but i'm glad we got to the bottom of it and we are hearing that they are going to get the money out early next week and that's a good thing and they deserve it. >> exactly. >> jesse: i'm glad jon is pushing it now we are a all a ...

About the retaliation part, what i do know is this is the same bill that they passed 84-14 on june 16th. the small fix that needed to be done in the house was a procedural one, based on a really nonmaterial clause that was put in there. there was one sentence about rural v.a., the v.a. being able to take over rural medical practices, so that veterans who live far away from these facilitys could still have access. it was a very small provision. it was placed in there by the v.a. there was a constitutional issue with it from the house, so the house went back and fixed, it and put it back to the ...

Family, corporal williams passed away at the v.a. medical center bearing his name in huntington, west virginia. officers leading a procession. and tonight here, corporal williams in his own words on what changes when you serve your country. >> i have a different concept of left. they have a different concept of service. and the value of life. all of that changes as a result of being a marine. >> well, we salute corporal herschel woody williams tonight, an american hero. thank you for watching, i'm david muir. from all of us here at abc news, good night.

But then you were more worried about enemy attacks. bombings, that kind of thing, not the smoke that hung over the bases, but seven years after that deployment, our soldiers started getting sick. many died. and the wife of one of them, pat cram, whose husband mike cram, a soldier and a police officer in vermont died from a cancer that doctors hadn't seen before. we were with him in afghanistan. we started digging, and we quickly discovered that many, many soldiers were dealing with the same thing. mike cram told his wife, pat, just before he died, quote, we got into something over there, and h...

For years he has told the stories of sergeant black and his fellow national guard members. grateful for your time today. i want you to walk through this. you have spent years through this and this is a testament to good, persistent reporting. documenting the story of the heros an their families and the resistance of the v.a. and pentagon to come to grips with the truth. >> yeah. we began looking into military burn pits about seven years after wcax photographer lance mackenzie and i embedded with the vermont national guard in afghanistan. we joined them in 2010 after the largest callup of the v...