Deadly mistake: Omaha Vietnam vet dies after VA fails to notify him of potential cancer. His widow worries he’s not alone.
By Chris Bowling Flatwater Free Press Michael Hansen shifted on the exam table, trying to control his anger. The 67-year-old Vietnam and his wife Lisa Hansen, sitting nearby, had promised each other they wouldn’t scream or cuss when doctors confirmed what the couple had begun to suspect.
Not that Michael had latestage lung cancer — the Hansens already presumed that. Not that he had, at best, a few years to live.
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