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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Pow wow honors Native American veterans

Pow wow honors Native American veterans
by Sarah McCann
Beckie Supiano Nov 14, 2007

WASHINGTON-- Native American veterans are traditonally honored at pow wows, and the Rockville, Md. pow wow during Veterans Day weekend was a good example of such a event. After participating in a flag ceremony and honorary dance, Native American veterans from northern Virginia and the Washington metro area explained how their community welcomes troops home with spiritual cleansing ceremonies.

Cleansing the soul after war has been documented going back to the time of Judges in the Bible. If you think this is "hogwash" then you haven't been reading very much. The American Indians did not arrive on this continent in the 1400's but arrived hundreds of thousands of years ago. They did not just participate in war when they were trying to retain their lands and way of life from the early Americans, but have been warriors since their beginning. We can learn a lot from the Native Americans if we listen to them. The problem is most of us would rather watch TV than listen to wisdom.