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Panel Calls for Improved Veterans Care
Bush commented on the report after a dramatic lap around the South Lawn jogging track with two soldiers: Sgt. Neil Duncan, who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan in 2005, and Spc. Max Ramsey, who lost his left leg in Iraq in 2006. They were aided by prosthetics. Bush met both men at Walter Reed last year. The White House said the timing of their visit _ on the same day as the report _ was a coincidence.
Dole said he planned to make sure the Bush administration implements the panel's recommendations.
  President Bush, left, along with outgoing Veteran Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, center, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, take part in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, with the co-chairs of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, not shown. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP) 
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"We did this because it was important," he said. "We're expecting somebody to follow-up on it. I'm going to be watching closely to make sure it happens."
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Associated Press writers Anne Flaherty, Ben Feller and Jennifer C. Kerr contributed to this report.
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