The Board found that the service-connected anxiety state and amebiasis did not cause or contribute to the veteran's death.,The appellant is not eligible for educational assistance benefits.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence does not establish a causal relationship between the service-connected conditions and the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety state, Amebiasis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 20, 2005
- Citation
- 0534358
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