Thanks For Your Service, Really?

In this edict, Valerie Allen has intensely revealed the hideous wounds. gaping scars and scab-covered injuries and injustices of veteran's experiences. Valerie bares her soul as regards Veterans homelessness and Veterans suicide rates in the United States of America. What is the price that we exact from our men and women who have represented us in combat for liberty and freedom? Why are they being turned away from necessary services and left alone in their despair and dismay? What are the necessary actions for individuals, non-profit organizations and others? This work of nonfiction, a memoir, is provoking and penetrating in its suggestions for strategies to empower a new culture of survival for those returning to our communities, neighborhoods and ordinary life situations after military service. The issues of homelessness, Military Sexual Trauma (MST, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) and other - service-related maladies are elucidated for the consideration of those who stand ready to assist. So many issues are raised with the idea that each individual can and must take action to restore those who have sacrificed more than we can imagine. As you read this treatise, please strategize what you can do that demonstrates sincere appreciation for those who have served!