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How the VA is offering medical aid to high-risk veterans in Western NC

Vietnam veteran Cliff Stewart sits in his mobile home in Swannanoa, N.C., which flooded during Helene. A non-profit company has has cut the drywall below waist level and removed the insulation so the structure can dry out.
Jay Price
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Vietnam veteran Cliff Stewart sits in his mobile home in Swannanoa, N.C., which flooded during Helene. A non-profit company has has cut the drywall below waist level and removed the insulation so the structure can dry out.

WUNC military reporter Jay Price joins Due South co-host Leoneda Inge for a check in on the VA’s efforts to help high-risk veterans in need of medical aid in Western North Carolina after Helene.

Find more of Jay Price's reporting on here.

Guest

Jay Price, WUNC military and veterans affairs reporter

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jay Price has specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade.
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.