It is episode number 316 of the way I heard it.

This one is called Not on My Watch.

My guest is Dan Clare, who works with the DAV, the disabled American veterans.

Chuck, you've been familiar with this organization and their work.

I am too.

I think a lot of people are, but you actually

supported them for a while. I still do. Yeah. I've been sending them a check every year for,

I don't know, 15, like 20 years. When I first found out about this organization, I was like,

I mean, it says it all in the title. They're helping, you know, veterans who need help, you know, missing limbs, PTSD, any sort of injury occurred in battle or just from serving, you know, our country. And that's good for me.

Actually, with respect, I don't think the title says that at all. The title is not on my watch, which is really a, it comes up in the conversation,

and it means a couple of different things. You'll be able to piece it together. We don't have to

take a deep dive on why this is called not on my watch. I think it'll be self-evident.

What's not self-evident, though, is the degree of difficulty facing men and women who are coming home.

It's not headline news. It's been out there for a while. We all know the suicide rates are awful.

We all know that people are wrestling with PTSD in a lot of different ways.

But a lot of people don't know that the DAV is the granddaddy of all

veteran organizations. They came into existence back around 1920 at the end of the First World War.

There was no Veterans Affairs organization then. There was nothing to help these men at that point, right, who were coming back, just hopelessly damaged.

This guy, Dan, Dan Claire, he's a whistleblower. He's the one who finally got it out there.

It being the incredible damage that was being done by burn pits.

And it's weird, man.

I've been familiar with burn pits for over a decade.

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