"Sergeant Somers needed help - and he and his family did what all families facing similar challenges are urged to do: they asked for help. But when the VA’s answer came, it demonstrated exactly what happens when America’s veterans are left behind."
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"The story of Sergeant Somers and his parents - the failure of the VA bureaucracy to provide the support this Arizona veteran needed, and the resulting tragedy - is not a story that dominated the national headlines."
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"It wasn’t a political scandal, or a partisan food-fight to which members of Congress were pressured to respond. It’s not what reporters in the Capitol hallways ask me about, and it’s not what people tweet at me on a daily - or hourly - basis."
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"But it’s exactly the kind of work that matters. It matters to Sergeant Somers’ parents and to veterans across my state. It matters to military families and loved ones. It matters to Arizona."
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"And it’s exactly why, as Arizona’s senior Senator, I won’t spend my time focusing on areas of disagreement - because spending energy on the latest tweet, the latest insult, and petty politics simply doesn’t move the needle for everyday people like the Somers."
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