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Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake conceded Wednesday that the agency must do more to reach out to Guard and Reserve troops who fought in Iraq< and Afghanistan about the mental health help available to them.
Peake made the comment during a Capitol Hill hearing in response to a question from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who expressed concern about VA research that found more than half of all veterans who committed suicide after returning from the recent wars were members of the National Guard or Reserves. Findings of the research, which examined suicides among those who had been discharged from the military, was first reported Tuesday by The Associated Press. "I know members of our Guard and Reserves oftentimes don't think of themselves as veterans, they see themselves as going back to their same jobs; they sort of disassociate themselves with the VA system," said Murray, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee. Read on
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