A rhetorical question whose answer lies in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves”. This Nation cannot continue to give lip service to the PTSD tsunami caused by ten years of war. The harsh reality is that 18 veterans a day commit suicide. In the face of that reality what we see is proposed cuts to the VA budget for services which will almost certainly guarantee continued barriers to competent behavior health services, enormous delays in processing disability claims and now to an already exhaustive list of inaction, we can add a lack of competent crisis intervention training by public safety officers to deal with the tsunami .http://bit.ly/hsUpoh
by Peter Whalen
