I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.
I am humbled by the prospect of serving those who have borne the battle, those American men and women who have sacrificed so much.
My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
