In both Canada and the U.S., I wish our veterans would hear "thank you for your service" less and "here are the services you need" more. Talk is cheap.

I shared a hospital room with a former NCO who lost several members of his squad to an IED in Afghanistan that also left him with serious injuries, became convinced that he had failed them, got sh*t for psychological support when he got back to Canada, and ended up in a very bad place (I felt honoured that he trusted me enough to tell me his story during some of my first long nights in the hospital). I understand things are better now, but we should all be ashamed.