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programs and things like that, which is very encouraging. they ve bip going so far as to actually go physically to the airport and to welcome, you know, personally those coming to the airport. a lot of people have left traumatic situations in afghanistan literally running for their lives with the shirts off their backs leaving their belongings and a lot of their loved ones behind, and so it s a very encouraging place where people are being sent so i m being sent here to support them and sort of figure out the next steps for with this new chapter that s the beginning of their lives. jason, there s been a lot of darkness and grief and fear and catastrophe in the last few weeks. and one of the bright spots i think as you noted is this sort of sprawling effort that happened across all sort of areas of civil society, people that i know, veterans, people that used to work in the foreign
to be this chaotic and every critic who asks whether chaos should have been a part of this or whether chaos could have been avoided to me may as well just be saying i ve never been to a combat zone. chaos is baked in. it s part of it. jason, every single time you are here, you make us better, you make us smarter and you make us grateful. jason candor, the face of a true patriot. that s what we saw over the last two weeks, true patriot im. thanks again. if you are a veteran struggling with your mental health, please, please know you re appreciated and not alone. call the veterans crisis to the line at 1-800-273-8255, press 1 or text 838255 or visit veteranscrisisline.net. we ll be right back. with home and auto to help people save more! [ laughs ]
jason, when the headlines crossed, the war is over, i was about to walk into my 15-year-old son s bedroom and tell him he had two friends sleeping over and i stopped myself, because i was afraid when i went in and said, hey, the war is over, that they might say to me, what war? and i was embarrassed by that. i was sad by it. but it s the truth. there are so many young people who were not born 9/11 and seth moulton said it in the last hour when he was serving in afghanistan, he felt forgotten. how do we make sure that s not the case? what do you want people to know, especially the next generation? yeah, no, the line you just played of the president stuck with me, too. and i appreciated him speaking to that, because i think part of what has been so upsetting over the last week, for a long time, but especially over the last week or two, has been this feeling that americans have discovered that we re at war in
days for those who lost loved ones in afghanistan and for those who carry the wounds of war. reporter: but the truth is far beyond bad feelings. post-9/11 veterans have a significantly higher rate of suicide than other vets and a study from brown and boston universities estimates over 30,000 active duty veterans in that age group have died that way, many more than the roughly 7,000 killed in others. why? in part because the length of the afghan and iraq wars took a terrible toll subjecting troops to multiple tee deployments and repeated traumas. and this retired air force nurse dedicated her life to helping vets. she nearly died in afghanistan. i was like what was all of this for. why did i work so hard. why was i gone for six months away from my family. reporter: jason candor, former missouri secretary of state sand previously a cnn