Military does not have a Mental health program to help soldiers!!!??


	Military does not have a Mental health program to help soldiers!!!??

shaor

10-20-2009 7:28 PM

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shaor says:

They send these men to war in the most terrible places yet cannot help them when they are affected by it??!! That's just crazy! (pun not intended!)

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