they don't just need a program and sompamphlets, or, you know, a little bit of coseling. they need opons that are gonna allow them to take care of their families, to pay their bills, and to start a new life. >> veterans affairs is supposed to pick uwhere the defense department leaves off. but there's no transition program really within the veterans affairs. > one ofhe thingthat's the hardt for thvets whe thecome bacis they've bn a parof a ut, a rely tight unit all onthe sameission. and wn they ce home, d ty don't have aission, an ty don't have anit, thas a t what ads to t isolati, which en can ld to the druand alcol abuse, which then very often leads to suicide. and what i have found from the veterans i' intervieweds tt they rlly had toeek their own salvation and find thir own w back into what we would call civilization-- that, you know, the civilian world. there's something about farming, and working with the soil, and working with living plants, and with livestock animals that after you've been in a culture of death and r, to be in a culture of life and sustaining and c