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Sick veterans have been left waiting an average of 10 hours for emergency room admission at one Veterans Administration hospital and little has been done by management to improve the situation, according to an investigation that paints a far less glamous portrait of veterans' care than the administration has offered.

Both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have aggressively courted veterans this election year, and the government has launched ads and held events to boast about the improving care of returning soldiers inside the VA system.