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You know, my experience has been this,
and just some people that I've talked to
as white soldiers who
never made it out of AIT,
had 192 days in active duty.
And he says he has PTSD.
And he goes, he doesn't get denied.
He gets a hundred percent.
Whereas the black soldier
goes through all kind of stuff
and he gets denied.
I'm not saying that it
happens all the time
but when you start to
talk to Veterans of color,
this is when you find these things out.
It's not something that we
put out in the newsletters
or the letter from the VHA under secretary
or based on the numbers,
these many black soldiers are being denied
versus white soldiers being...
We're not exploring that.
We're not telling about those numbers.
We're not giving out that information.
And that information is hush hush.
I believe it's hush hush for a reason,
because the numbers are disproportionate.
I believe it.
I believe if they really get exposed,
it would be very disproportionate.
So we don't talk about the numbers.
We don't talk about it.
And you just have to talk
to individual Veterans
to get the experience,
especially with trying to
get benefits from the VA.