American Tragedy

Everybody has a story about mis-treatment at a VA hospital, it seems. Few are good reports, many paint pictures of misery. Now, some are crossing into true tragedies.

Marine Kills Self After VA Turned Him Away

Jonathan Schultze, a Marine who fought some of the Iraq War's fiercest battles in Ramadi, killed himself four days after being turned away by a VA hospital where he sought treatment for suicidal thoughts. "He was willing to go to Iraq and did what he had to do in Iraq, got injured in Iraq, and he comes home and a year and a half of his life was torture. And they couldn't help him," said [...]

Tags: VA Hospital, Jonathan Schultze, Iraq War

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