On this Veterans Day my heart feels collapsed as I remember my - TopicsExpress



          

On this Veterans Day my heart feels collapsed as I remember my friends, both Afghanistan war veterans, who committed suicide in the past six weeks, Jacob David George and Ethan DeFiant. I break at the death of our friend and ally, Thomas Young. I mourn the 22 veterans who commit suicide every single day in this country alone. The 1,500 new troops sent this week to Iraq by President Obama. The hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq and Afghanistan. The millions more who suffer in their loss, both there and here. The mass shortage of doctors and clinicians needed at VAs across the country. In Florida and California, VAs are reported to be short 22,000 and 17,000 doctors statewide. There are also shortages in primary care and certain specialties, including mental health, according to the NYT today. I ask my friends in San Francisco to come out tonight at 6pm to Iraq Veterans Against the War and JustSeeds event, War is Trauma at 518 Valencia. I ask all of us to take this day to figure out what we are each doing for peace, as I struggle to answer that question for myself.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:17:45 +0000

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