Courageous. Brave. Defenders. Heroes.
These are just a few of the words we so often use to describe American veterans. But what can happen when they need the help has prompted a wave of reaction.
“I’m thinking, what the heck did I do?”
“We’ve done a good job of creating veterans, but we’ve done a bad job taking care of them,” said Don Stiff, a former US Marine who told us he’ll never go to the VA for mental health treatment again after, he said, he went to his local VA clinic for counseling and got held against his will for days.
“At first, I didn’t know what was going on. But I figured it out pretty quick when I couldn’t leave. I’m like, what did I say? I’m thinking to myself, what the heck did I do,” he recalled about the visit 11 years ago…