Charles M. Sennott.

• Position: Medical services to soldiers - Brief article

Boston Globe, February 11, 2007 "Told to Wait, a Marine Dies."

As the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War approaches, it's a lamentable fact that America does not provide adequate medical services to soldiers returning from combat. The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott provides the tragic example of Jonathan Schulze, a twenty-five-year-old Marine from Minnesota who returned from Iraq in the fall of 2006 with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After being denied proper psychiatric treatment from a Veterans Administration hospital, he hanged himself this January.

In researching Schulze's story, Sennott pored through some 400 pages of documents and interviewed members of the Schulze family and VA health professionals. He explains that the military is not adequately helping Iraq War veterans who suffer from PTSD, estimated to be one in every five soldiers. One reason for this may be that VA hospitals...