You had also indicated, sir, that when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder, sometimes years later a person can be diagnosed with that.
One of the problems I find my office is dealing with is that many veterans, for example World War II veterans, Korean veterans, Bosnian veterans, or Gulf War veterans, many years later are now feeling the effects of what happened to them. They go to try to make a claim to the DVA, through the various boards, and they're being turned down repeatedly because nothing on their medical file from during their time of service indicated there was a problem.
One of the most difficult things to prove is whether or not they actually have PTSD, even though they've been clinically diagnosed with it and the doctor will say that there's a high probability that the person's concerns are possibly related to their military service.
I have yet to hear of a case where a person has been, many years later, diagnosed with PTSD from a service-related thing and has actually gotten a benefit. Is there any evidence of that? Of all the cases I've dealt with, every single one so far has been denied.