So I've been mixing it up with some local veterans, one Vietnam era guy comes out to the park most weeks and I've been attending the yoga and Dong style taijiquan classes there.
Tuesday one of the thousands of vets that go to the local clinic took his life.
He had been discharged from a residential program last Friday. Apparently Tuesday he had an appointment with his patient advocate that ended poorly. He was assigned 50% disability but did not have use of his legs.
So he came out of the meeting, said, "guess all I can do is shoot myself" pulled out a pistol and fired a round into his belly. Right there in the waiting room in front of hundreds of other vets.
I don't know who this post is for, but if you visit your local VA regularly you expect some changes to security protocols in the coming year.
And as it turns out, there were two more suicides at VA facilities over the weekend. I guess it's a popular place to do it. They leave notes sometimes saying they came there because they know the VA will take care of them.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... ities.html