What happens is these people fall through the cracks. What happens is people recognize the difficulties, but until the veteran seeks help on his or her own, there is very little that his or her relatives and loved ones can do. It's one of those situations that develops. We try to intervene, but by the same token it's extremely difficult. Of course, the final criticism is that we are not able to help and the person commits suicide. It's a criticism of the system. We recognize the difficulties. We see the person indulging in substance abuse in his or her habits and things of that nature. We try to help and we can't help.
On November 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.