Emotions run high at Rep. John Duarte's latest Veteran's Town Hall in Madera

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Congressman John Duarte held his 3rd veteran's roundtable successful Madera it was focused connected the generational issues and the disagreement amongst veterans.

Elected leaders, work providers, and a afloat country of Veterans young and aged came unneurotic Wednesday astatine the Madera V-F-W Hall to sermon beingness aft service.

Emotions ran precocious arsenic galore work members were fed up with the strategy for receiving services. Many pouring retired their hardships, sharing akin stories including Robert Gurule a Vietnam War Veteran.

"I didn't recognize that determination were truthful galore radical that were fundamentally worse disconnected than me. It conscionable brought backmost memories that's all," says Gurule.

Gurule said helium came to stock his ongoing conflict to suffice for services.

"I deliberation the veterans particularly the older veterans similar maine should not person to combat for anything. I've been warring the VA since '68 for my disablement and I inactive can't get 100%," says Gurule.

Also astatine today's roundtable, Raul Medrano. He served successful the Army for 8 years but remains jobless and is present relying connected section nutrient banks.

"When I moved backmost to Central Valley, I've been having a batch of occupation with who to link with. I graduated with my assemblage grade got a bachelor's, conscionable got to MBA, and it's been hard trying to link trying to find those resources present successful the Central Valley," says Medrano.

Yolanda Whited besides served successful the Army and is the girl of a Vietnam Veteran, she's seen the challenges veterans look for generations.

"As a veteran, I would emotion to beryllium taken attraction of erstwhile that clip comes but close now, I'm the 1 that has to combat to marque definite our veterans are taken attraction of. Do you deliberation much needs to beryllium done close now? Yes and no. I conscionable depends connected who you talk to," says Whited.

This is the 3rd roundtable hosted by North Valley Congressman John Duarte. Since the past two, he's introduced 2 bills focused connected simplifying forms and making services much easy accessible.

"They don't request a instrumentality grade oregon idiosyncratic with a instrumentality grade to simply entree the benefits that they've already earned. We arsenic a nine request to wage them request to assistance them," says Congressman Duarte.

But Duarte, says much enactment inactive needs to beryllium done.

"Could the bureaucracy bash more? Yeah, we similar the bureaucracy tin bash much but we besides cognize that there's constricted bureaucracy operations and sometimes it's up to the assemblage to recognize these issues and enactment itself to get folks needs met," says Duarte.

Veterans who came to the municipality hallway archer Action News they consciousness heard and hopeful for the future.

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