First thing VA asks is “do you want to hurt yourself or somebody else?”
If I wanted to either of those I would not be there for my yearly physical or what ever.
I’m pretty sure I was instructed how to kill other people and not myself.
I really appreciate the improvements in VA care in the last few years.
While I disagree with the VA’s use of language, thanks to President Trump, they are trying to heal and serve Veterans now, and I am grateful.
Volunteered at Walter Reed during the Afghan war on the amputation war.
My respect for our military went through the roof and will NEVER come down.
The best part was the “grads” coming to visit, strutting down the halls with their prosthetics proudly exposed.
They would go talk to guys who were totally devastated at the lost of their body parts (Who wouldn’t be?)
As they were talking to them they would say “We gotta go soon. We’re going wind surfing on the Chesapeake Bay. Next year you our coming with us.”
They made an amazing difference!!
But we are trading social media for daily social interaction. (Live in a neighborhood with tons of kids. Only see them on the bus stop and Halloween, but NEVER playing outside.)
Ain’t gonna end well.