Warrior Connection - 07/22/12

My guests are John Ketwig, Vietnam veteran and author of “... and a hard rain fell- a GI’s true story of the War in Vietnam”, SFC Lynn XXX, Us army retired, a military sexual abuse survivor, Major Denise Nichols, RN, USAF retired, and Keith XXX , who is Desert Storm veteran affected by PTSD and who had a niece who was on active duty commit suicide recently at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. We initiate our discussion on PTSD, it's affects, sexual abuse, and some suggestions of what needs to be done light of astronomical suicide rate in the military, the findings by the National Academy of sciences that PTSD care inadequate, and the growing need to ensure all veterans can lead productive lives.