. >> we have a sol lemn responsibility to provide our veterans with the care and benefits they have earned when they come home. >> that was the promise but that the reality. >> geoff that's what you want, why are you making it so hard. >> he saw friends died and they are still dying. it's post traumatic stress disorder ptsd, which is taking him now. it very nearly took him too. >> now it is hitting on a global scale, it is more veterans are killing themselves now than they ever have before, at an alarming late and it just keeps getting higher. we feel remorse to kill -- ptsz is big news in hollywood this year, a best picture contendser in focus right now because the man on trial for killing it's real life protagonist was suffering from the disorder, and there's a strong dose of reality in the best documentary short category. this film, a stark look at the men and women who man telephone lines. who talk war veterans out of killing themselves. >> there are around 22 million war veterans in the united states. in fact, they represent just only 10% of this country's homeless population. los ang