Excerpt from African-American Veterans and Community, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; September 15, 1993 This morning the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is meeting to examine a very important and timely subject - Afri can -american veterans and the community: post-traumatic stress disorder and related issues. Last week President Clinton and Vice President Gore unveiled their proposal to reinvent our federal government. Like the Presi dent, I strongly believe our federal government can and must be more responsive to our citizens. In veterans affairs, there are clear ly many opportunities for improving services to the men and women who have served in our armed forces. Expanding the Vet Center program and improving ptsd-related services are only two of the needed improvements I strongly support. And in the very near future I intend to introduce legislation to bring about these needed improvements. Among today's Witnesses other improvements in veterans' serv ices may be recommended and these recommendations will be very helpful to us, I believe, in fashioning that legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.