On the recordJuly 24, 2006
There is a new set of challenges out there, not just taking care of our current veterans, but this new generation of veterans that are coming back with unique challenges. You mentioned posttraumatic stress issues that we have seen really cropping up from many who have served. But the other thing we witnessed firsthand in a delegation that traveled to Iraq last year, the doctors there in the military hospitals told us many more soldiers are being saved from battle injuries, dramatically more are being saved. Although we are having fewer lost lives, we are having more lost limbs, and although technology has improved in terms of prosthetic devices, there will be a whole new generation of these veterans coming out of service that will need those kind of specialized services, and we cannot let them down.
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