A federal judge in Atlanta has awarded $8.7 million to the family of a Vietnam War veteran who died due to “grievous malpractice” at the Atlanta VA Medical Center following a surgery in 2016. A nurse at the hospital wrongly placed a feeding tube into Jesse James Anderson’s windpipe, causing him to suffocate and lose consciousness, the judge said. Anderson, 70, died two days later when his life support was withdrawn. In an order on Monday, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg said the nurse was