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Stuart Feldman and the Fight for Veterans

By Colman McCarthy · 76 words · 1 min read

For Stuart Feldman, the people who really scorned Vietnam veterans were not the occasional anti-war protestors but members of Congress who sent them to war and then willfully looked away when they came home in desperate need of health care and education. His advocacy was of the rarest kind in Washington: relentless, informed and humane. If there were a Medal of Honor for valor in defending the rights of veterans Stu Feldman would have earned one.