Currently, there are over 2 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan living across the country. The nature of these wars, and the brutality of the enemy, has changed the types of injuries the members of our military must deal with as they return home. These invisible injuries like posttraumatic stress disorder are harder to diagnose and harder to treat because they do not always manifest themselves immediately. Sadly, a 2012 report from the Department of Veterans Affairs noted that an average of 18-22 veterans have committed suicide each day for the last decade. That figure is completely unacceptable. These veterans swore an oath to protect the freedoms we hold dear, and I swore an oath to provide care for them as they return. I was proud to join my House colleagues in unanimously passing HR 203, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, to do just that today.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:05:07 +0000
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