In July 2000, Lou Johnson, the only COHORT to acknowledge McVeigh’s deteriorating health, wrote to McVeigh, at that time on death row awaiting execution. In his letter, Johnson discussed his ongoing struggles with the Veterans Administration and said he planned to go to law school because, “I’m sick of seeing vets get fucked by the VA and the government. If not law, then teaching. Maybe I can change some of these college kid’s idiot thinking.” He said after seven years of fighting with “the bastards at the VA” who continuously “fucked up” his records, the Board of Veterans Appeals finally
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