I don’t doubt they are overworked. Anyone who has spent much time in Arlington and watched the way they work cannot help but think they are pressed.
They do a great job, but can be viewed as a bottleneck, and it isn’t their fault. There are simply a lot of veterans, guys like my dad passing on, and I do believe it must be peaking.
I wonder if they will consider any short term measures to deal with this spike.
For this to happen to our veterans and the families of veterans, this is a national disgrace.
I wonder if anything like this happened during the Bush years beside the Veterans Hospital debacle that is (I doubt it).
All veterans and all veteran organizations should be breathing down the neck of the administration over this until the problem is corrected. If they need to hire more or to commandeer soldiers from other states if necessary to get the job done then so be it but this should not be happening especially to our veterans and our veterans families, not in this country. Not now, not ever.