Article: MURRAY FIGHTS FOR VETERANS MEDICAL SERVICES.(News)(Column)

Byline: JOEL CONNELLY P-I columnist

AS THE VIETNAM WAR raged, a Washington State University student chose to do an internship in the psych ward of the Seattle VA hospital, behind whose locked doors were warehoused those bearing the war's invisible wounds.

Getting to the hospital, she traveled through streets often crowded with anti-war demonstrators. Vietnam exposed, for a time, a huge disconnect between those fighting and those protesting.

"Things happen in your life that you draw on later," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a member of the Senate leadership and one of Congress' foremost veterans advocates.

A generation later, in Iraq, the country is engaged ...

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