Vets ask why Obama is pardoning felons but not those with PTSD

Published January 18, 2017 5:03am ET



A veterans service organization slammed President Obama Tuesday night for commuting the sentence of felons while not pardoning those who had been kicked out of the military for behavior linked to post-traumatic stress disorder.

John Rowan, the president of Vietnam Veterans of America, said in a statement that the group hopes the president will pardon veterans who received other-than-honorable discharges related to PTSD before leaving office on Friday.

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