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FAMILIES ANDFRIENDS URGED TO VISIT FORGOTTEN MEN’ IN V. A. HOSPITALSAn appeal to families and friends to visit the nation’s “forgotten” men in veterans’ mental hospitals was issued by the veterans Administration Tuesday.Sketching a picture of tragic neglect, V. A. said in a statement:“One-third of the more than 52,000 veterans who are mental patients in V. A. hospitals have not been visited by members of their family or friends in a year or more.”V. A. said a survey showed that in many cases, especially where patients have been hospitalized over a period of years, their families have “just drifted away” from them.“In other cases, the families want nothing to do with ‘ crazy’ men,” V. A. said. “Some records reveal instances where families refuse to accept the veterans back into the home after they have recovered.”V. A. told of one patient, a veteran of World War 1. who had not had a visitor in 12 years.And the agency related how another patient, in numb despair over neglect by his own wife and children, made up a “familv” from among attendants at the hospital where he has lived for five years.The V. A. statement said that “there are men in V. A. hospitals who are mentally and physically capable of returning to normal life and in some cases earning a a living if they could return to their homes and families.”
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Burnet Bulletin
Burnet, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 05, 1950
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