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In the FOX 7 Care Force, we are looking at a maddening problem many Texas veterans are having and a possible legislative solution to it. Mitch Fuller, the legislative chair for the Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren to discuss.

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