A military widow reflects on the life-changing losses at the Veterans' Administration.
My husband, a war-wounded Marine who served two tours in Iraq, was 25 years old when a nurse found his body lying face down in his hotel room. An amputee who suffered from PTSD, TBI, and an addiction to the opioids he had been prescribed for his war wounds, Cleve had been receiving treatment at an inpatient PTSD program in Houston, Texas. It had been four years since he was hit by an IED in Ramadi, Iraq and eight months since medically retiring from the military.
I fear that with DOGE’s recent buyout and mass layoffs, even more veterans will share my husband’s fate. In the past month, 2400 VA employees have been laid off, including VA crisis line employees and researchers working on life-changing prosthetics and critical opioid addiction treatments. These are the kinds of experts who could have helped save my husband’s life. What’s worse–The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to lay off 83,000 more employees by the end of 2025.
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