Q&A
Council member's personal experience with ineffective veteran support programs
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Council Member Holden responds to a question about his personal experience with ineffective veteran support programs and the impact of false hope on veterans and their families.
- Holden acknowledges the deflating effect of programs that offer false promises or don't provide real help
- He shares that his family experienced multiple instances of programs that didn't work or offered false hope
- The council member expresses his frustration with the VA, stating that he blames them for the lack of effective help
Mount Lacey
1:55:12
I wanna speak directly to your your personal experience growing up, and I wanna ask you a question.
1:55:20
How do you feel like it would affected your father if he would have reached out, and if there was help available, or he was told there was help available, and he was constantly running into brick walls, gatekeeping, and false hope.
1:55:37
How do you think that would have amplified further his symptoms and the effect on your life.
Robert F. Holden
1:55:44
And that that goes without saying that, obviously, when you're given false hope and you think something is going to help.
1:55:52
We had that a lot, by the way, in our family.
1:55:54
We always had programs that either didn't help or programs that offered, like you said, false promises, and it didn't work.
1:56:05
And it was deflating.
1:56:06
It deflated us.
1:56:07
We we thought, you know, we had hope for a week.
1:56:09
Things were gonna turn around.
1:56:11
We had hope for 2 weeks, and then back to square one.
1:56:15
So that goes I mean, I could tell you a lot of things that happened, but I blame the VA, period.
1:56:24
I couldn't blame anybody else but the VA because we did ask for help and didn't get it.
1:56:27
But go ahead and tell us about your
Mount Lacey
1:56:29
Gotcha.
