the topic here to tell us more about her article is veterans' advocate and political consultant rory reilly topping welcome henri thank you for having me lori you wrote a very strong piece and a nice correlation with the deep on the police movement what are some of the inefficiencies you've noticed in the v.a. that aren't being solved by the additional funding. so one of the been saying centers around mental health care and suicide prevention not spent a very important topic over the past few years unfortunately we have a lot of service members who when they transition to that are in status go through a lot of. it's a cult and unfortunately it's funding for smell health specifically has seen some of the highest increases that we haven't seen a decrease in the amount of veterans who are committing suicide so i use that as a very pertinent example because as the v.a. has started to branch out and look for other solutions they've realized that suicide isn't just a health care problem it's a multifaceted problem and oftentimes there are community organizations on the ground who may have more ac