This announcement is long overdue. At least it makes clear to veterans that there is now an official policy that has as a primary goal insuring that those who are suffering from PTSD and/or traumatic brain injury get diagnosed and receive the long-term care and treatment they deserve. What remains to be seen is if this policy is sincerely and universally implemented. Perhaps Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki will exhibit the same courage that he did when, as Army Chief of Staff, he testified to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for postwar Iraq. A position that was acrimoniously contested and criticized by both Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.

there was no war! the last war we really had to fight was WWII... Bush and his family lied us into this Iraq debacle and Bush continues to roam free. May he rot in hell! There was no draft. The republicans planned 9/11 and lied about the military intelligence and america was broken by these right wing thugs and bullies. We're all veterens thanks to the lies and incometance of American's lying thieving republican terrorists!