One of the concerns that we've heard.... When I first saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, I noticed the 58,000 names that were on there. But we've been told that many more returning veterans from Vietnam unfortunately took their own lives, numbering in the many thousands.
Can you advise, with many of the military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan having very serious psychological problems, what lessons you have learned to facilitate and assist these men and women from doing harm to themselves or to their family members because of the severe trauma they went through?
What advice can you give us concerning some of our veterans who are suffering through those psychological problems months and years after the event?
And I thank you very much for your time.