Soldier Arrested Seeking Help at VA
Spc. Justin Faulkner had tried to tell his superior officers about mental problems he was experiencing, which went ignored. He took matters into his own hands and checked himself into a VA hospital to undergo evaluation for his difficulties. Then, in the middle of the night, he was arrested for being absent without leave from the military. In his eyes, he wasn’t trying to hide, as he was at a veteran’s hospital. This says a lot for the untold casualties of war, mental distress that doesn’t get counted among normal statistics.