A true scandal is the percentage of veterans who come back with some degree of mental illness.
http://www.propublica.org/article/more-t...h-problems
Lets not pretend that they magically get sick the day they get out. This guy could have been batshit crazy all along.
http://www.propublica.org/article/more-t...h-problems
Quote:More than half of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans treated in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals since 2002 have been diagnosed, at least preliminarily, with mental health problems, according to statistics obtained by the advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense.
The data, which is released quarterly, also show that the raw number of returning soldiers with psychological problems is rising. Nearly 18,000 new patients were treated for mental health issues at VA facilities in the last three months of last year—the most recent time period for which data is available—upping the total to more than 330,000.
Lets not pretend that they magically get sick the day they get out. This guy could have been batshit crazy all along.
