The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death and denied entitlement to Dependents' Educational Assistance benefits under 38 U.S.C.A. Chapter 35.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish a link between any service-connected disability and the cause of death, nor was there evidence that the veteran had service-connected disability evaluated as total and permanent at the time of his death.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute myocardial ischemia, Thrombosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery, Coronary arteriosclerosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0639447
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Decisions by this judge: 1,177 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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