Another Iraq/Afghanistan Vet, waiting, and waiting, to receive attention from the VA, could wait no more, and after 4 days of attempting to get noticed that he was truly suffering from PTSD, decided to end his life via suicide in his car in the parking lot of a VA facility. Trump has declared a National Emergency on our Southern Border! There are almost 850,000 Vets alive from the Viet Nam War, many, who were the first to experience Agent Orange, and from the beginning to their exposure to their lives in 2019, have been ravaged by the results of a chemical whose sole purpose was to poison and kill. Many remain homeless, many still suffer the results of PTSD, but not until the Vets returned from Iraq and Afghanistan did the US Government even believe that PTSD was even real. But Trump[ has declared a National Emergency on our Southern Border, Tax cuts for the 1%, and has spread the malaise, via the GOP, that any government intention in the health and welfare of its citizens is a SOCIALIST Act, and that is bad for America! To Make America Great Again, we need the influence of the Russians and their, hidden in the shadows version of god old USSR Communism!
The eastern world, it is explodin',
Violence flarin', bullets loadin',
You're old enough to kill but not for votin',
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin',
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. (Eve of Destruction/P.F. Sloan 1964)
Violence flarin', bullets loadin',
You're old enough to kill but not for votin',
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin',
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. (Eve of Destruction/P.F. Sloan 1964)
Nineteen suicides have occurred on VA campuses from October 2017 to November 2018 ― seven of them in parking lots, according to data the Washington Post obtained from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Some are worried that this is a gruesome form of protest by veterans to highlight how little help they were given in their time of need by the VA system.
Experts estimate that the total monetary cost for the U.S. — including long-term veterans care — of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan may eventually total as much as $4 trillion.
73.4 percent of all U.S. veterans have a VA service-connected disability rating.
Almost 5 percent of veterans today were retired from the military before the age of 35.
Almost 60 percent of veterans who were retired from the military in 2012 due to a service-connected disability were under the age of 35.
33 = the average age of an enlisted soldier who was retired from the military due to injury or disability in 2012.
Every 65 minutes, a military veteran commits suicide.
22 military veterans commit suicide every day.
31 percent of these suicides were veterans aged 49 and younger.
Every month nearly 1,000 veterans attempt to take their own lives. That’s more than one attempt every half hour.
Suicides among active duty personnel almost equal one per day, or 349 per year.
Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
And can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. (Eve of Destruction/P.F. Sloan 1964)
And can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. (Eve of Destruction/P.F. Sloan 1964)
