Stand Down 2007 helps veterans in Connecticut

Stand Down 2007 helps veterans in Connecticut

Stand Down 2007 helps veterans in Connecticut - by Crystal Haynes
by News Channel 8's Crystal HaynesPosted Sept. 21, 2007Updated 12:12 PM
Rocky Hill (WTNH) _ They served our country, and now the state of Connecticut is lending some of our veterans' a helping hand. "Stand Down 2007" is aimed at making sure the state's veterans have everything they need.

For Eddie Torres Mills, the road from the battlefields of Iraq to a normal life in Connecticut has been a rough one.

"My company, we lost a guy. We were transportation, doing convoys. And right now they talking about PTSD and stuff and I don't really know what it is, but they say I might have it," he said.

'They' are the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs, the sponsor of Stand Down 2007. Here Torres Mills, an Army veteran, along with hundreds of the state's homeless and needy veterans, have an opportunity to get haircuts, have health screenings, get their driver's licenses restored, and even take care of misdemeanors at a special satellite superior courtroom.
Torres Mills plans to take advantage of the free legal advice.
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".,,,they talking about PTSD and stuff and I don't really know what it is," Why? Why after all this time a combat veteran does not know what PTSD is even though he must have been diagnosed with it? How is this possible? What more needs to be done and how fast can we do it?