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Moses D. Lasitter: No dressing up the VA

The Feb. 27 letter “Unaccountable VA” was right on. Let me make an old country lawyer’s observation from firsthand experience with the VA system: “We can put new shoestrings in old shoes, but we still got old shoes.”

Moses D. Lasitter

New Bern

This story was originally published March 6, 2015 at 6:02 PM with the headline "Moses D. Lasitter: No dressing up the VA."

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