Last week the VA office released a report finding that 22 U.S. veterans committed suicide each day in 2010, which works out to just under one suicide per hour, a disturbing number by any account.

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The veterans' health care system has found that 716 patients may have been affected during this time period, Jim Blue, regional director of the VA's Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, told CNN.

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He still frets that, shortly after he arrived, leaders in the Salvation Army's main office in Alexandria, Va. were surprised to hear of a Christmas card promotion hatched by the Detroit office--on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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Despite what we know about veterans' suicides, a recent report from the VA inspector general's office found that about a third of veterans considered to be at high risk for suicide don't receive the recommended follow-up care after they've been discharged from VA inpatient mental health care.

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Somewhere deep in the bowels of the company's office in Reston, Va.

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According to a Government Accountability Office report, the VA processed 60 percent more claims from 1999 to 2008 than it did a decade earlier, but the number of claims still pending jumped 65 percent.

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Hostage, interviewed in his office at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va.

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