Were proper care provided to returning veterans it is likely that the total cost of aftercare, physical, including brain trauma and toxic substance exposures as well as other wounds and amputations, and emotional, including PTSD and the trauma of having been involved in what one has, at some point, to accept as having been inhuman acts, that cost would be at least comparable to the cost of deploying the soldiers.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."