Commentary: Fourth Reading: The Story of an Epic Fail

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My children call it epic fail.

It's one of those events or actions where absolutely everything is wrong, something needs to be completely redone and where people need to start over from the very beginning.

It's something like the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs.

For more than seven months, this newspaper has published story after story that detailed incidents of abuse, neglect, rape and death at many of the state's seven veterans centers.

The stories were horrific and heartbreaking.

It didn't take long before everyone from Republican Gov. Mary Fallin to members of the state House and Senate's veterans committees were gathering information and trying …