But the real meat of the hour is a discussion about war and the wounds of war we can not see.  The most common war statistic you hear thrown around is that 4000 soldiers have died in combat.  What you don't hear is that a like number have taken their own lives.  In sorting through this the reporter in me tries to make sense of such senselessness: What is it about war, the culture of the military, the state of mental health care that has contributed to these individual tragedies?  That's what the reporter wonders.  But there is something else that is more personal and in truth makes me angry.  How can it be that we send our sons and daughters off to war and all too often forget them when they return?  I've been in wars and one thing I am certain of is that no one leaves a war zone unscarred.  No one is the same when they come back as they were when they left.  Thankfully only a few will kill themselves and maybe 20% will show signs of PTSD.  But all will be different.  These days military doctors can save lives on the battlefield like never before.  But the sad truth is that as a country we are less good at supplying the treatment -- medical and emotional -- our warriors need when they come home.  All of us should find that unacceptable and all of us should be angry.

So we'll look at a part of that this week because we should, because we should never ignore those we have asked to go to war regardless of how we might feel about that war and because you expect is to take on the difficult and painful even on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

Thanks for the kind notes this week.  Who knows, this may become a regular event.

Aaron Brown