Parents of Arizona PTSD Veteran Talked to Congress

Reminder: My husband was told the same thing when the VA had no room for him. That was way back in the early 90's. What excuse is Congress using now?

Az family helps 'put face' on veteran suicides, VA role
Cronkite News Service
Ryan Howes
Posted Jul 10, 2014

Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers was struggling with physical and emotional scars, a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder after tours of duty that saw him in repeated action in the Gulf.

He didn’t need to struggle with his own government, too.

But in a suicide note he left last summer, the Phoenix veteran said he was taking his own life after the government that pushed him to commit “war crimes, crimes against humanity” had abandoned him and offered no help for his conditions.

Somers spent “six futile, tragic years” trying to access the Department of Veterans Affairs health system before “finally collapsing,” said his father, Howard Somers. He was one of several family members of veteran suicide victims who testified Thursday in an often-emotional hearing before the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
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