veterans mental health

For Immediate Release
May 15, 2008

Alex Reese
(603) 768-1714
 SUNUNU REJECTS VETERANS' MENTAL HEALTH CARE; REPORT INDICATES MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG VETS MUCH HIGHER THAN PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED

(Manchester, NH) - CBS News reported last week that internal Veterans Administration documents show that the incidence of mental illness among veterans is much higher than publicly acknowledged, and that it's possible that more veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may lose their lives to suicide than to combat. Despite the well-documented incidence of mental illness among veterans, John E. Sununu has voted against funding for veterans' mental health care, rejecting a 2005 proposal for $2.5 billion for veterans' mental health care.