Thank you for your service, General. Don't let the door hit you on your way out. Secretary Shinseki had a meeting with the President at 10:15AM Eastern . Looks like I was off by a week on the General entering a new phase of his life. The key take-away from all this is - while Shinseki properly gets to shoulder the blame - this is not entirely his fault. The VA needs a serious revamp and culture shift, a culture that has been venal since, oh, 1921 , and screwed with 3 generations of my family...