And again, I'm going to stress that what the Veterans Administration is doing is not working in preventing veteran suicide. We can quantify that. We have numbers. We have widows, we have widowers, we have kids without parents. Because they've committed suicide as a direct result of their service to our nation. We're able to sit here and have this committee hearing in peace because men and women are standing overseas protecting our lives. And we owe it to them. (02:32–02:44)
CLAIM
Asserts that veteran suicides are a direct result of their service.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.
