As we welcome 2019, I have a collective New Year’s resolution to propose: Let’s offer real and lasting help to our veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. When they volunteered to serve, we promised to care for them if wounded. We must keep that promise.

As many as 11 million Americans suffer with PTSD, and up to 80 percent of those afflicted seek no help. Of the 1.9 million veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, 20 percent or more are affected by PTSD, while the Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 620,000 veterans throughout the system have PTSD. Most remain undiagnosed and untreated.

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