As a combat veteran and a member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, I have witnessed firsthand the epidemic of suicide ...
The national commander of the American Legion has been in Minnesota this week, visiting different posts to talk about a ...
An office manager at a VA center in Wyoming, where the veteran suicide rate is 50% higher than the national average, was ...
a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, to VA Secretary Doug Collins ... in addressing mental health issues, particularly thoughts of attempting suicide,” Moulton and Bacon wrote.
The V.A. provides care to more than nine million veterans. The Trump administration has said it plans to eliminate 80,000 V.A ...
Hunter Whitley always wanted to be a Marine.  “That was his lifelong dream,” said Shannon McDaniel, Whitley’s mother. “We ...
The leading Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs’ Committee vowed to fix the system for approving benefits to the families ...
During a speech for the American Legion, he criticized the billions spent on suicide prevention efforts, noting that the yearly veteran suicide number — roughly 6,500 — has barely changed.
A military veteran wanted by police was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a parked vehicle this ...
According to the VA suicide was the 12th-leading cause of death ... with ongoing counseling and services to address persisting issues that plague our nations veterans ...
“Denying benefits to veteran ... suicide of a veteran had their applications rejected. Many were denied because they didn’t have VA documentation linking their loved one’s mental health ...