Again, I go back to just the aspect of the “benefit of the doubt”. It's nice to say that, but I'll send you the hearing loss ones and the asbestos ones that I have for you to review. In my own case...and I'll correct myself if I'm wrong, but I don't see the benefit of the doubt being applied. I always see, “There's no link that shows you suffered a hearing loss, so you're denied.” That's what I'm seeing on my desk from these hearing concerns. I write them back and they say, “What about the benefit of the doubt?” That's fine, but unless there's a link to prove that their hearing loss was caused by those guns going off on the ships, we can't prove it. So there is my problem.
On May 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.