A National Veteran Resource Complex at SU is a good idea, and here’s only one example of the many veterans’ resources nearby, just waiting to help in this venture. Virtually every current and imminent SU student who’s a veteran, knows someone who knows somebody with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, survivor’s guilt, or moral injury — part of the price they paid for your freedom and safety.

It’s easily verifiable that my two minute YouTube video, “TO VETERANS WITH INVISIBLE WOUNDS,” made at SU, has been used by the VA’s National Center for PTSD, the Army’s most deployed division at nearby Fort Drum, the VA’s nationwide suicide prevention program, the leading online mental health journal, ‘Cuse’s IVMF and Social Work School, among others.

The message encourages troubled vets to seek help, and is a tool for their families, friends and counselors. With 22 daily veteran suicides nationally and a half-million invisible wound cases out there, every print and online DO reader could alert their cyber-peeps about the video, and know that they’ve become part of the solution. It’s not rocket science. The Navy helped with my BA and the GI Bill with my master’s, and it’s time I gave back.

Roland Van Deusen ’67 (Soc), ’75 (SWK)
Clayton, NY