Honoring Our Veterans
Our veterans deserve our utmost respect and admiration.
They put their personal safety—and future—at risk to protect ours. They stand up for us with courage and patriotism. We must stand up for them.
The Veterans Administration has been hollowed out, understaffed, and under-resourced. That must be reversed. The backlogs and long delays for medical and other services must be eliminated, and that means repairing and modernizing our veterans services. Higher and technical education opportunities must be assured and counseling services be made readily available, linking veterans to these opportunities and preparing them for good jobs in the civilian world. Access to adequate housing needs to be supported. Special attention needs to be paid to services dealing with PTSD, depression, and traumatic brain injuries.
Veterans Courts at the local level should be encouraged so that there are legal, chemical dependency, probation, and other services working as a team to help struggling veterans caught up in the justice system. We must make sure that the spouses and children of our active veterans have good housing, support services, and income, and that widows or widowers and children of heroes who lose their lives in the nation’s service are well provided for. Disabled vets and their families must receive the best possible care and support.