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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:55 PM Sep 2016

Trump says that veterans are killing themselves cause they cant get a doctor...WRONG!!!

The young lady who asked Donald this just made this comment ..."PTSD and chronic pain has everything to do with veteran suciide, not lack of access to the services" She also said he was stigmatizing the Vets

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Trump says that veterans are killing themselves cause they cant get a doctor...WRONG!!! (Original Post) SummerSnow Sep 2016 OP

He was probably referring to this story... TipTok Sep 2016 #1

TipTok

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1. He was probably referring to this story...

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Wed Sep 7, 2016, 10:05 PM

Sep 2016

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/25/peter-kaisen-76-year-old-veteran-commits-suicide-i/

A 76-year-old veteran committed suicide Sunday in the parking lot of New York Veterans Affairs hospital, police said.

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He went to the ER and was denied service,” a hospital worker told The Times. “And then he went to his car and shot himself.”

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“Someone dropped the ball,” the worker said. “They should not have turned him away.”

A spokesman for the hospital, however, said there “was no indication that he presented to the ER prior to the incident,” The Times reported.

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