but my symptoms of ptsd was about six months to normal. when you are in in a combat zone hyperventilate and alert to danger and ready to respond this is a helpful and adaptive response that keeps you alive. when you come back to america and driving on the beltway it is no longer adaptive to be ready to kill somebody who cuts you off in traffic. at least that is what my therapist tells me. [laughter] to dial that hyper response over six months is totally normal to do take time to come back to a even keel. that happened for me. but i never developed into a disorder but for a bright and it did. he had the addition to experience a much higher level of trauma and he did develop ptsd to struggle was losing his career questioning who he was and he turned to alcohol all lots as a mechanism and the abuse was a very negative aspect. the way i could see it later every bad thing on top of every bad thing with ptsd he could not sleep but that hurts the cognitive function , having worse function made them even more depressed so is by roll down worse and

they still have large numbers as you quoted of folks who are developing ptsd.ome of the programs they say show promise. there was one small program the army has called battle mind which is designed to help soldiers deal with re-inter grace, helping them understand what they go through in combat are feelings that others do, try to normalize those feelings. and that has been shown to have some modest benefits through peer-reviewed research. >> all right, greg, "usa today," thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >>> this is "pbs newshour weekend sunday." >>> finally tonight, the winter olympics in sochi are ending but the paralympics are set to begin. one of the featured sports? sled hockey. jay chefski in chicago explains what it is and introduces you to a one-time olympian in the sport. >> reporter: the gear that a sled hockey player puts on to for a game is pretty much the same as for an able-bodied player. with one key difference. instead of skates, there is this sled with blades on the bottom. sled hockey is played by people with lower-limb disabiliti

the question was am i involved in the training of service dogs for veterans with ptsd. right now the answer is no. there are a number of groups i've been introduced to and have spoken with in the last 18 months or so that do that and i would love to get to the point where we have an involvement in some capacity. i will see the type of dog that is going to be a good personal protection or military dog etc. is usually not in the same category as a dog that is good for a fellow soldier with ptsd. there are two different missions in terms of how the dogs perform with their temperament and character trait but obviously it's a very important thing and we are taking it one step at a time doing the providing and retiring. it's not to beat a dead horse but it's a whole different animal. anybody else? >> do the enemies target the dogs and how do they view that whole issue? >> they do. here's the short answer to what our enemies do. they target everything we have. they don't use any discretion in prioritizing necessarily. if we have something whether it is a truck, weapons truck,

ptsd is well-established since before world war i.addiction to adrenaline, yeah, i think on first blush that sounds a little crazy. but i think we should be open to hearing what he has to say and what his psychological witnesses have to say. intent is necessary for any crime. >> we should say, guys, he confessed. he didn't ask anyone to go to trial, he didn't spend any money on any of our defense services or trial services. he said he did it, it's me, i did it and this is why. joey. >> what happens, ashleigh, is this. first of all, ptsd, as lisa mentioned, is very real. in my former life i worked with veterans in our state capital and albany and veterans affairs community and worked with a lot of veterans who suffer from this and it impacts their lives in really horrific ways. that being said, ashleigh, this was not used as a defense to get out of it. it was used as what we lawyers call mitigation. what does that mean? it means in certain crimes when you go to sentencing there are aggravating factors, reasons you should spend more tim

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it works to combat ptsd. >> quarter of a million guys who came back have ptsd. >> absolutely, they dourn now. when they come home, they have served, go on a run, we know whether or not it feels like to be physically active and what it does for stress. imagine doing that with a bunch of people who essentially are moving in tribute to saying tha thanks, we'll be here. >> elizabeth, it is great to have you. >> sean, you're fantastic, best to your family. >>> and coming up tonight. forcing the hotel to remove the holy bible from guest rooms. they're going to be here for a "hannity" show. [ male announcer ] if you're taking multiple medications, does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. that's why there's biotene. available as an oral rinse, toothpaste, spray or gel, biotene can provide soothing relief, and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. remember, while your medication is doing you good, a dry mouth isn't. biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth. a dry mouth isn't. fifteen minutes

the question was am i involved in the training of service dogs for veterans with ptsd. right now the answer is no. there are a number of groups i've been introduced to and have spoken with in the last 18 months or so that do that and i would love to get to the point where we have an involvement in some capacity. i will see the type of dog that is going to be a good personal protection or military dog etc. is usually not in the same category as a dog that is good for a fellow soldier with ptsd. there are two different missions in terms of how the dogs perform with their temperament and character trait but obviously it's a very important thing and we are taking it one step at a time doing the providing and retiring. it's not to beat a dead horse but it's a whole different animal. anybody else? >> do the enemies target the dogs and how do they view that whole issue? >> they do. here's the short answer to what our enemies do. they target everything we have. they don't use any discretion in prioritizing necessarily. if we have something whether it is a truck, weapons truck,

splendid they may change its stance he gets to ninety two clinton attack on when you look nice on ptsd and to extend started at eighteen ten. the quickest in one station was hard to dance but baucus times its body into its side in sindh province of pics that i've teased about that day the man. it healed i get it. what am i thinking they are. at the end the band the economy. that accident victims. it's actually beats on was that the key to the deceased would like but due to the extent of making this kind of stunned stunned and ninety. it went east to keep reaching for and when he acts. nobody needed to be just wants it to one at that let's take a bus that i was going to change and adapt. to whom. i chose the name with the topping amount of the political parties in india coupled to the song that the paler blue the massive that is so shouldn't the campaign's promises in the eyes of duty in portable. judith elections in india would be taking place in the next ones. he stepped off the campaign opposition bjp is making mittens are mostly as its centerpiece of campaigns popularly known as sno

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bush said ptsd is an injury, not a disorder, and the goal is to change the dialogue to get more vetsn the bay area is on. it's coming just three days from now on wednesday. you can track it on your smartphone anytime with the abc7 news weather app. lisa argen has been busy monitoring those computer models to tell us. what do you have, lisa? >> we have a sneak-peek into march, which involves the next seven days. that's interesting. we have a lot of low clouds and they are banked up from the northern sonoma county coast through marin county, san mateo. but they are beginning to burn back. it's low-level moisture and with with that the visibility has been reduced in parts of the by area. mt. tam a pretty picture where temperatures have been in the upper 40s to low 50s with the blanket of clouds. once again we will see mild afternoon readings as high pressure remains in control. it's 25 in truckie. look at the snowpack. we will have a couple feet of no by this time next weekend. 52 fairfield. eye been sunny there all morning long with the sunshine in concord. it's working its way over to

i have ptsd. i have depression.n i think about taking prescription medications it may not necessarily appeal to me, like taking antidepressants. but when i think about heroin that's that instant sense of relief. you may not think about the consequences in that moment, you think about simply having some kind of relief. and you know in those instances that that drug provides instantaneous relief. now, fortunately i'm able to think about all the different consequences that could happen to me because i work and i spend my life working with other people who are addicts. but i think in some people's circumstances for whatever reason at that moment they're not thinking through all the particular consequences and they're just interested in having that relief. >> getting that pain relieved immediately. tracy helton mitchell, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >>> let's talk more in depth about this. dr. drew pinsky, you hear her story and it's amazing to me that the first taste she got of an opiate was vicodin after

he had ptsd.shared his story where we got this video. >> you are used to this really intense lifestyle and it's in your system, and it just doesn't turn off when you get back here. >> he eventually got a service dog. that service dog is named puffy, she accompanies him everywhere and he said having a dog gave him a reason to get up out of bed and have a better life because he wanted to give a better life to his dog and eventually his cat firma who he got last year. he starts hiking with both of his pets and he said do you know what, it really helped him. >> how can you not want to get out of bed to see a catwalking through a snow hiking? i want to do that! >> wow. >> that's a big cat, too. >> yeah. >> this just proves how healing love can be. >> well, and how therapeutic nature can be. >> i think the human spirit needs to be challenged. as long as you got that, you're living. whoo! >> it seems like the cat is channeling its, like, old big cat, you know, ancestors kind of prowling around the mounta

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these staff have told them that ptsd, get this, ptsd is not a disability that requires assistance with a.d.l.'s or activities of daily living. assistance with the activities of daily living is only one of the four criteria needed as having a serious injury and under the law a veteran needs to meet one of the four. even the appeals process does not seem to be well thought through. you see, madam president, we can write the laws, but it's the agency's regulations that they write that dictate how these programs are run. and v.a. says that they have an appeals process, however it's vastly different than the appeals process at v.b.a., the veterans benefit administration. it leaves veteran service officers or v.s.o.'s at a disadvantage to help veterans and their caregivers. v.s.o.'s have been told the v.a. considers it a medical decision and they cannot, cannot question the denial. the only recourse these veterans and their caregivers have is to appeal to the medical center director. the problem with this, it was a medical center director who denied the appeal in the first place. now, i'm go

i shot about his life but there is still in the top according to them and give it the ptsd care about the master document intelligence who carried out his mission which only they don't really connect with the rides at the plunge i may have been granted rights to the copper shade to make it seem scary and a one hundred and eighteen made his movie title her pics by ethics based on information from that sin and guilt. francesco on your ear that french people show much interest in picking this culture. physically yes folks the paintings many collected and don't go and hence philippine team and that rock band two fronts. it is still painting pinky and continue to appeal to be secured at the friends' school up in heidi's i make a story shows you how friends think that it has held a piece at the new set of folk art art which i convinced him of beating a week he's actually photos of them. no education topics and content each team getting these letters. these different from other once the new and improved painting and that's waiting for state and the an innings and security in on a different a

. >>> and the government's still struggling to care for troops returning home with ptsd.ext on "pbs newshour weekend." >> "pbs newshour

when he got out he had ptsd that kicked in very bad. unfortunately he tried to kill himself. the family is completely healed. he thanked us for saving his marriage and his life. those are the type of retreats that we're putting them through. we bring them to the ranch to help cure the families. they go through different therapies using horses and outdoor elements. specific group therapy and individual therapy. >> can we help? >> just awareness. if you know a veteran did not assume if you do not see a physical injury do not assume that he is ok. >> it is the concert for a cause that the house of blues. is tomorrow night from 7-11. tickets are $100. they have ... it by that name.a website by tht name >> how using your ipad can improve >> how using your ipad can improve yosomeone bathed in handsome... oikos man. once you go greek... it's on the house. i'll pay you back reeeeal soon. grrrrrrrrrr. works every time. and stamos is right on schedule. she is so gonna own him. (both) hahahaha. all aboard the stamos train. wow wooow! dannon oikos greek yogurt, fuel your pleasure. are yo

martha: he says he wants to take the word "disorder" out of ptsd. george w.ke it his cause to get the men and women he sent off to war back on their feet. now that they are back home, many of them, and to be reintegrated into society in a positive way. in an interview he did with abc, the former commander-in-chief got emotional when he talked about what he calls now his duty. >> my spirit is always uplifted when i visit with them. there is no self-pity. too many people saying wall wits me. not our veteran community. they don't say woe is me. they say what kind do to continue to serve? >martha: sitting at his side was jake would, former marine squad leader in iraq, he was a sniper in afghanistan and a middle of valor winner as well. when he came back he helped to found a group that has made of that and doctors who put their forces and skills together to respond to disasters at home and around the world. we are very honored and pleased to have him with us. let's start by looking back at the interview you did with the former president. what was your reaction to

and when ptsd or was releasing their initial health assessment back in nineteen ninety seven. one local tv stations to the story down. mm and a side took over ten years to my now being fourteen years. and like you are actually guiding us of male breast cancer at thirty nine which is incredibly young age guy and of course it's a very rare thing for men to be diagnosed with autism come to the realization that you are alone and when you are dealing with. well i mean two months after i was diagnosed we found out about conclusions to jerry testifying on capitol hill about the new children born there between nineteen sixty eight nineteen eighty five and i realize that the diet is one of those children are birthdays and aitken sixty eight. surely after the tour was a new story. my local paper one on the internet and to show show the power the end. a gentleman from alabama. saul the story and try to be in even a child i can put in during the nineteen sixties are to live in the same neighborhood that i was born and at the same time i was born. and he too was diagnosed with the breast c

perhaps without legs, perhaps blind, perhaps without arms, perhaps ill in one way or another through ptsd or t.b.i., that we were going to make sure that their wives, their mothers, their sisters, their brothers, their kids had the support that they need to provide the kind of nursing care that -- in home that those veterans needed. and this legislation has been very successful for post-9/11 veterans. and let me just give you one example and there are obviously many. one family who benefited from the v.a.'s caregiver program is ed and karen matakum. i hope i've pronounced their name correctly and they live in my home state of vermont. in 2010 ed and karen were deployed together as medics with the vermont national guard, a national guard many of us in vermont are very, very proud of. just two dpais days before independence day, the vehicle ed was riding in was hit by an i.e.d. the driver, ryan grande, was killed and we remember that loss very well. while ed and three others were severely injured. ed lost one leg immediately suffered a stroke and a severe final spinal cord injury. soon ther

saying -- >> here's my question, because i read about dylan farrow's life, and she's had an awful life, ptsde's had extraordinary difficulties at the time, whenever allen would show up at the house, she would feel sick. you think all of that is implanted in her mind by her mother at the age of 7? is mia farrow -- >> is she a brainwasher? >> she was angry at woody allen and let's assume justifiably angry with woody allen. when you're angry and your kids see you angry and you say the things she said about sooni, you pick that up. >> in such detail? dylan's account with such detail is all a false memory, that mia farrow implanted in her brain? >> the bottom line is -- >> you're accusing mia farrow of child abuse. >> i really believe that. that's why woody allen sued for custody. >> that's incredible. >> it's a brilliant way to avoid credible charges of child abuse. >> everybody is talking about dylan and mia farrow. this stain hurts him, too. if it's always, it's a disaster for a person like that, to have a false accusation 20 years later, and everybody wants to believe it. >> i don't want to b

. >> they battle post-traumatic stress disorder or ptsd. >> i can't leave the house, screaming, not knowing why. that actually stays with you. not knowing why. back here in the u.s., back in your house, your body is here but your mind is still over there doing missions. >> this is the world war i plaque, soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice. will is an iraqi war veteran and he's taking care of this world d war i monument. this is very important. because me and bob were vietnam veterans. these guys are going to be taking care of our monuments when we are gone. it is the biggest fraternity that is ever, we can't ever forget. >> what happened over time is they had put a layer of paint and not treated the rust before they put the paint down. it's a just cause we have here gentlemen. the process of taking on a monument like this, people say well, it's going to cost lots of money and we have to have meetings. no, it doesn't have to be complicated. but whatever we do, we want to educate other people so we can pass the torch. because we can't do this forever. >> today i got my first experience,

. >> you were depressed and had ptsd.der how you got past that if you actually have. >> you know, it is a journey and part of it is the shock of it all. some of it has to do with the disease itself. it depresses the immune system but also depresses your psyche as well. again, therapy is very important and working through, you know, what happened and how you, or how i got to the space where i was diagnosed with this disease. and eventually getting to acceptance. the fear that a lot of people have is the judgment and stigma and believing that you will not be accepted. it takes a little work and it takes just being present every day. >> when you write about that and the role of therapy that you were for, important for you as other, what we consider physical help, you write that others are not so fortunate. tell us about that and how that relates to some of the advice you give. >> i had the ability to pay. a lot of insurance policies don't necessarily pay for mental health treatment or they had a limited number of suggestiess

it was a time for us to decompress and give us an opportunity to have less ptsd. we came home physically and mentally well because of the live and let live. better food, better treatment, no torture. we had time to think about what our future look like when we got home. we were smart enough to know the bitterness would never hurt them. us.ould only hurt it only takes that much bitterness to ruin your life. why should we go home to bitterness? layer being and washed away of anger and bitterness. i do not think any of us lost all of the anger. i think most of the bitterness. my anger is with communism. it is built upon and intellectual life and can only exist where there is a gun. >> when that ship goes to hanoi, what are you going to do? >> i don't know. i can go in like a torres. i have the mental ability to turn off all of motions when i need to. i can go in and be like a tourist. i do not know if i will do that or go in and celebrate being free. i have no idea what is going to happen. >> what is located at the hanoi hilton area now? and think there is a hotel so

believe you told our producer that some employers are worried about veterans -- that everybody has ptsdthey get back, and so they are really concerned that -- that veterans can't handle it? >> i don't know that it's necessarily that they don't think that veterans can handle it, but they don't necessarily know what to do with a veteran. they don't know how to repurpose those skills. so it takes people who understand that and have that experience to either use those skills or teach others how to understand it, and how to learn what it is that we have gone through. >> tell me how this works. how do your skills now translate from the military to disaster relief when we are talking about team rubicon. >> team rubicon is a veteran's organization that conducts disaster response. we partnered with the bob woodward foundation as well as others, and we are training people, veterans and -- and others to become disaster response professionals, and we do this through a series of education and just general repurposing, finding those places in disaster response where we can best use our skills. >> lan

patients to use marijuana medicinally and has approved more than a dozen studies to treat illnesses like ptsds disease, even cancer. >> hopefully this would prove to be the best medication. i really hope so. we're not there yet. >> the answers might come from places like this. it's a state-run nursing home outside of tel aviv. residents here are using marijuana for pain, loss of appetite, parkinson's disease, and dementia. moshe root is one of those residents. he was 77 when he smoked his first pipe of marijuana. he is 80 now, and he smokes a couple of pipes a day. it's to help with the pain and the hand tremors caused by stroke. >> it's a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. >> he even decided to light up during our interview to stop his hands from shaking. >> you are saying your hands are steady because of the marijuana? >> it also helped ease a deeper pain hidden from sight. you see moshe is a holocaust survivor. when his wife died a couple of years ago, he was haunted by nightmares of his childhood hiding from the nazis. the marijuana, he says, took him out of the darkness. >> you're free. y

someone i know and someone my company has worked with suffered ptsd, because she was in a class withmous trollers attack her for her body type, the comment she made, the clothing she wore. there is a bit of an argument. this is not about protecting the speech of nasty people but everybody around them as well. >> what do you do about this is this. >> popular science stopped allowing that. >> that is not the solution to stop everybody to post. there is software. you can put actual people in place to monitor these things. thank you for helping us explore this trolling existence. tweet us what you think. >> like all athletes, gold medalist ice dancers, meryl davis and charlie white, trained for years but you will not believe how they worked together to reach their goal. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady. i'm not saying mark's thrifty. let's just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ] [ dance m

. >> i had a little ptsd. >> you did. so that was all pretty interesting.o thought there was a similarity between the clintons and the obamas. the clintons, according to the blair papers, clearly experienced themselves to be faces an unprecedented personal, vicious onslaught from the washington establishment when they started. the obamas too. not this is the way it is. >> you're the youngest person on the panel by a long shot, so this is all ancient history to you and a whole generation of voters. do you think they'll care if she runs? >> no, especially because it's been litigated. right? there's nothing new in the papers. there's a real debate to have over whether or not hillary clinton should be the democratic nominee. i think there's a real debate to be had over whether or not she should be president of the united states. i don't think that's in relitigating the past. you're right. >> amen. i agree. news that hillary clinton is tough, disciplined and smart? no. what this country deserves is to learn about what she stands for. does she stand for elizabeth

. >> dylan farrow has been in therapy for ptsd and trauma and when woody allen would visit she feel sick >> you know this from the letter. >> i read the 1992 piece that tells you a lot about other people. >> it tells you all -- >> here's what i know about -- >> what i do know about woody allen. >> media strategies and decisions. all we know is that a media strategy was put into effect here. >> it could be true. you're not saying it didn't happen? >> we don't know. >> anything could be be true. >> so can i, absolutely. >> start with yourself. >> we'll take a break. thank you very much. >>> up next, tiger mom roars again. she joins us live next. there's a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. around here you don't make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up, and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it when you know where to look. this is the first power plant in the country to combine s

the doctors say he's suffering from ptsd. he's effectively like a 12-year-old.e's capable of expressing his true feelings in a way that's satisfactory to anyone. >> that was ethan couch's attorney appearing on cnn. appearing now on cnn. legal analyst paul callan and analyst joey jackson. i need to take a deep breath guys before i begin this. you know how i feel. i think you feel the same way. here's what i need to ask you. that prosecutor said the affluenza defense was a dumb idea. i think it was a brilliant idea and it worked. that kid got off scot-free. will it ever, ever work again paul callan? >> no. i don't think it will work again. anybody who was stupid enough to use the word affluenza will find his client carted off to jail. the prosecutor is dead wrong. it worked very effectively in this case. it was a stupid thing to say, but the expert convinced the judge this kid despite killing four human beings and critically injuring two others gets no jail time. >> poor kids, well they don't get to experience affluenza. can you somehow think somewhere down the li

we're not talking about ptsd with homeland terrorism.hat we're trying to do is make it very simple. in the 1960s, most people were afraid to talk about racism. it's very dangerous to compare what was happening in the civil rights movement to now. and we've been very quiet until this administration has sort of like pressed the pause button on our conversation about race. america is changing by 2043 white folks are going to be in the minority so we have to talk about it in complex targeted ways. >> are people using race and it's being used politically, o too. here's what harry reid is saying about the president. i hope and i say this seriously it's based on substance and not the fact that he's african-american. >> what kind of comment is that? i'm he not saying people don't go after the president because they don't like him because he's black. some people do, but that's a pretty aggressive thing for harry reid to say, isn't it? >> erin, i think there is a machine that helps to keep this race conversation going because people are getting pa

reporter: bob and will alongside thousands of other vets battle post traumatic stress disorder or ptsdo not sleep at night. i walk the house at night. i told the va i just go off like that. >> i found myself not being able to leave the house, just screaming at night, not knowing why and then actually that stays with you, that stress level and then back in the u.s., back in your house, your body is here but your mind is still over there doing missions. >> this is the world war i plaque and world war i soldiers and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and he is an iraq veteran and taking care of this world war i monument and this is very important because me and bob were vietnam veterans and these guys will be taking care of our monuments when we are gone and it's a brotherhood and the largest fraternity in the world and cannot forget those who came before us. >> what happened over time is they put a layer of paint and have not treated the rust before they put the paint down. it's a just cause we have here, general gentlemen and we it will cost a lot of money and we need lots of meeting

. >> do you think this could be one remedy for the scourge of ptsd? >> there's no single remedy. this is a very complex issue. and i think that it's going to take an all encompassing approach. part of that is going to be having a good job and getting medical attention or gettinging in to talk to a trained therapist. part of this and this is often lost, is rebuilding that sense of community that peer support network that they have and helping to identify a purpose in the second phase of life. that's where team rubicon can fit in. thank you for your service that continues to this day. thank you very much. great to see you. we look forward to following up with you. >> thanks for having me. >> and in ohio, following up on another tragic story, ohio's governor john casic presented courage medals to the three young women that survived years of being hostage in that cleveland house. they received a standing ovation as governor casic presented them with the award during his annual state of the state speech. >> no one rescued them. they rescued themselves. first by staying strong and by s

the national guard version of the national model to improve ptsd screening. it worked so well, i got it into a defense bill and it is being enacted nationwide. to make sure we do our best to protect kids coming home. the new screenings resulted in more than 800,000 service members who received personal and private one on one attention from a trained health care provider both and after deployment. these screenings are saving lives. i'm also proud of another lifesaving bill, the affordable care act. it's been almost four years since president obama signed that act, signed it into law. in that time the law has done more than any other in the past half century to expand access to health coverage. he has provided 71 million americans free preventive service. more than six million seniors receive discounts on vital prescription drugs. more than three million young people have peace of mind knowing they are allowed to stay on their parents health plans, especially proud that now no child -- no child -- can ever be denied health care coverage because they have been s

the doctors say he's suffering from ptsd following the accident. >> that was missing also, though.families, show that remorse. why not? >> if you heard the testimony, you would have heard that ethan, right now, is so basically shell-shocked by this whole process, he has a very flat affect. he's able to express remorse but, quite frankly, i don't think there's anything he was going to say to anyone that was going to make them feel any better. especially not coming from him. >> so you are saying the fact we didn't hear from him isn't because he doesn't care. it's just he's not capable of istime because of the trauma? that's what you are saying? >> exactly. and not to mention, ethan, the testimony was that he is emotionally and socially arrested to where he is effectively like a 12-year-old. i don't think he is capable of expressing his true feelings in a way that would be satisfactory to anyone. >> yet you can understand if it were your kid, your loved one who were taken in this accident how you'd feel if you heard about this sentence, right? >> absolutely, i can understand. but what

but members of the military lose arms, legs, eyesight, come back with ptsd or t.b.i. fighting in wars that congress authorize, we have a moral obligation to make sure that those veterans receive all of the benefits that they have earned and deserve. when american soldiers die in combat, we have a moral obligation to make sure that the spouses and children they leave behind are taken care of as best as we possibly can. so, mr. president, that speaks to the funding of this legislation, and i would hope that we would have strong support from all of our colleagues, and with that, i yield the floor. mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, let me thank the distinguished chairman of the veterans' committee for his remarks and for the relentlessness, the enthusiasm and the passion with which he has pursued putting together this extraordinarily strong bill for our veterans. i look forward to supporting it and i commend him for his excellent work. i'm here because every week that the senate is in sessio

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. >> we talk about ptsd when some veterans return, understandable.own with an army veterinarian, a u.s. army veterinarian before we adopt a dog. we go through the dog's medical file and make sure that the dog doesn't have ptsd. >> so how long is the dog going to work for the nypd before he's retired? chase bones and other dogs. >> that's the reason this program is so good. what the u.s. army is encouraging is law enforcement agencies from all over the country to transition these dogs into police dogs because they're still young and they still have a working life left. >> wow. and everyone is going to benefit, especially here in new york with cesar involved. thanks so much. >> beautiful dog. >> randy, thanks so much. juan rodriguez, thanks for coming down. tell cess cesar we really appre him. >> more "fox and friends" in just a minute. [announcer] a healthy dog is a playful dog. give him the calorie-smart nutrition of beneful healthy weight. with wholesome rice,real chicken,soy, and accents of vitamin ric veggies... plus a taste he loves. beneful heal

and especially improve ptsd screenings and prove it nationwide. especially with the montana national guard, we got it through the defense bill and it is now being enacted nationwide. the kids are coming home. and it has resulted in more than 800,000 service members that have received personal attention with trained health care providers before-and-after appointments. and the screenings are saving lives. i'm also proud of another life-saving bill called the affordable care act. almost four years since president obama signed that act and the law has someone been any other to expand access. he has provided 71 million americans free preventative services to more than 6 million seniors have received discounts on vital prescription drugs. more than 3 million young people are allowed to stay on the parent's health plan and no child can never be denied health care coverage because of a pre-existing position. and this includes a private standoff that is helping go through americans. take julie who has talking about how she can get access to affordable qual