LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs has almost half a million people delivering health care to former service members and their families, but they can be notoriously hard to argue with after they make a decision.

Veterans with valid appeals really need an advocate hearty enough to help face that bureaucracy.

"This is not an easy job, and this morning was really, really tough," said Rex Moore, founder of Veterans Benefit Center (VBC) of Searcy, on a particularly difficult day in his post-retirement vocation, taking on those fights.

"I'm 77 years old. I am a 100 percent disabled Vietnam veteran," he said. "I served with the 173rd Infantry, and so it's been a long 77 years, and I would love to go fishing. I really would."

But Moore tirelessly leads a group of

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