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Written by Marian Benz March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month – and it is very important, especially to me. Let me tell you why. My dad was in the US Army and served in the Korean War. What you may not know is that my dad was a patient of the VA Healthcare System. But not always and not at the end of his life. For most of his life, my dad used the VA for his healthcare due to a combination of service-connection disabilities and a low income. He was a very typical patient of his era. Whenever asked by his doctor, everything was fine, and he felt fine. He did not ask questions of his doctor and only sought care when things were bad. As Dad got older, he started to get sick. Real sick. By t