The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding that no service-connected disability caused or contributed to his death.
The deciding factor: There was no evidence linking the veteran's death to a disease incurred in or aggravated by service, and the diseases were not present during service or within the presumptive period after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebral hemorrhage, Generalized arteriosclerosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2005
- Citation
- 0525934
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