Suicide Left Veterans Running for Cover Orlando VA But Media Killed Story

UPDATE

News on veteran suicide at Orlando VA had been buried in a report about McDonald coming to Orlando.

We've been searching for updates since Monday when a veteran at the Orlando VA was calming waiting for his appointment according to a witness, then ended up freaked out soon afterwards. He went into the parking lot, got his gun and killed himself. There are no updates. No one at the VA is talking and some employees don't even know what happened.

One veteran killed himself at the Orlando VA in the parking lot with a gun in one of the busiest VA facilities. His story was boiled down to a couple of paragraphs by our media.

Any idea how this story should have been important enough to actually know what happened? Do the veterans at the VA on Monday morning deserve answers as to why they ended up running for cover when this happened?

There is something really wrong in this state. After all, Florida has the 3rd highest veterans population in the country yet so few reporters take the time to cover their news. They should matter a lot more than they do all the time but the story of one of them falling so far thru the cracks he killed himself at the VA leaves veterans wondering if they matter at all.

One veteran died in an accident in New York. His story was covered on over 2 pages. Here's the story on the accident in New York.

Wrong turn leads to death for Vietnam veteran
Riverdale Press
By Tanisia Morris
Posted 10/1/14

Douglas ‘Dovid’ Kaplan, 63, and his wife Malkah, last May, prepare to raise a new American flag they are donating to their synagogue, the Lincoln Park Jewish Center, in Yonkers.

At the time of his death, Mr. Kaplan, a husband and father of two, was reportedly on his way to a treatment session for post-traumatic stress disorder at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center at 130 West Kingsbridge Road, where he was once employed.

A Vietnam War veteran was killed in a tragic wrong-way crash on the Major Deegan Expressway last week.

Police said that on Sept. 23 at around 7 a.m., 63-year-old Douglas “Dovid” Kaplan of Yonkers was involved in a collision while attempting to get onto the Major Deegan Expressway.

According to police, Mr. Kaplan was driving his gray Toyota Camry the wrong way up the exit ramp at East 233rd Street and Jerome Avenue when his car sideswiped another vehicle and then struck a Department of Transportation truck.
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