Veterans groups, government brace for surge in mental health needs
When Kristofer Goldsmith was discharged from the Army in 2007, he was in crisis.He had been trained as a forward observer — the person who spots a target and gives coordinates to artillery — but when he got to Iraq, the then 19-year-old instead found himself photographing dead bodies for intelligence gathering.A suicide attempt before his second deployment triggered a less-than-honorable discharge and a long fight to gain honorable status after being […]
