Oakland, CA: A 90-year-old veteran of World War II who first applied for disability payments in 1986 and has since been made to deal with denied disability insurance countless times has finally, after 28 long years, reached the light at the end of his tunnel. But it’s been a long road for the military veteran who once stood amongst the ruins of Hiroshima not long after the atomic bomb was dropped. He even drank thirstily from a nearby well amidst the rubble. According to The San Francisco Chronicle (1/25/14), John Brenan would have had no idea at the time, in 1945, that he was surrounded by radiation from the explosion. In fact, doctors told him four decades later that it was probably the radiation exposure that led to his colon cancer in the mid-1980s. The good news is that Brenan beat the disease. But he had a far tougher time getting disability. Dealing with his California ERISA-denied claim would take decades and would require the intervention of a US Congresswoman to finally r