I agree with your submission. When a veteran experiences difficulty, I find they withdraw. They withdraw from social activities; they withdraw from the community; they withdraw from normal activities that you and I perhaps do every day without thinking twice about. They just withdraw, and that's a sad situation, bearing in mind that if they had, for instance, a hearing aid--although a hearing aid is quite expensive--a lot of their problems could be addressed.
On December 13th, 2007. See this statement in context.