Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Professor Westwood, it's real pleasure to listen to you this morning--sorry, I mean this afternoon. It has been a long day already.
Many of the things you say are similar to the things we have heard from some of the soldiers themselves. You've talked about the World War II vets and the fact that it's 50 years too late. Often as we're doing this work, we think of all of what we're trying to do for the veterans today, and we think back to what was being done for those folks 50 years ago. Clearly, very little was being done in those days. I think that now we're trying to avoid as many of those past mistakes as possible and to look forward to how we can help many of these young vets who are coming home now.
You talked about the invisible injuries and the men's and women's unwillingness to address them. You were saying that they will do everything they can to avoid that. Clearly, you can't force people to get assistance, so isn't it a case of recognizing psychological problems early on in order to get them into the right veterans transition program--we can call it whatever we want to call it--and to get them into a mindset in which they recognize that as a result of what they have seen and experienced, they are clearly going to have some sort of trauma, whether it's today or tomorrow? Then we could head things off rather than have somebody commit suicide and then realize that overall as a community we failed that individual by not recognizing it earlier.