<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It now seems that vets are committing suicide at the rate of 20 or so a day.  More Vietnam vets have done so than died in combat there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The VA promises to cut waiting time, is being reorganized, is underfunded, etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am not a vet but was a clinical psychologist in part, and it seems that vets and PTSD is being treated like mental illness - i.e. like please just go away, I don't want to think about you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Sapolsky, whose book I have finished and will review shortly, says that brain images had to be shown to Congress so that they understand that a disease is there, not just some wimpy guys crying themselves to sleep at night.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Outside of the mentally ill, I just don't know of a group that deserves far, far more attention than these vets.  Alcoholism, drug addiction, homelessness, are rampant.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Why would anyone want to go fight a war for the USA?  Especially in unwinnable wars like we have now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>