Marine Veteran Featured in New VA PTSD Video

Here are a couple of things to remember. The first is that the VA still has troubles and yes, veterans are suffering needlessly.

Then the second thing is, none of this is new yet Congress has managed to avoid the responsibility of the VA being placed in their care. Yep, it has been the job of Congress to make sure the VA had what it needed and did what it needed to do. That goes back to about 1946 when the first House Veterans Affairs Committee was seated with jurisdiction over the care of veterans. None of these problems are new.

The last thing is that the VA has done a lot of good things and this is one of them.

The VA Rehabilitates Itself
A polished new video series touts veteran success stories. Will the department make more of them happen?
SLATE.com
By Phoebe Gavin
July 5, 2015

The video above, from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has a clear message: rebirth, new opportunities, unlikely success. It’s one of the vignettes in a video series that appears to be a part of a concentrated PR push to rehab the VA’s own image after a notorious series of public failures and scandals.
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