Too much blood on my hands

Is it really fair that we the men and women of our armed forces go to a foreign land and fight for us, but yet don't provide them the care they need when they return home?

I don't think so. I admit though that even though I've been trying to keep up with information on veterans and the small things that I can do to help, I was shocked to see these numbers:

The VA estimates that every year 6,500 veterans take their own lives. The mental health director for the VA, Ira Katz, said in an e-mail last December that of the 18 veterans who commit suicide each day, four to five of them are under VA care, and 12,000 veterans under VA care are attempting suicide each year.

18 people a day in the United States take their own lives as a direct result of doing what they believed to be their duty to God and country. I cannot account for God, but the tiny fraction of country that I represent just got a wake up call that I need to do more. I am not sure what that is. But I have to do something.

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