Karie Fugett joins Stuart Stevens to talk about her memoir, Alive Day, chronicling her life as a young wife whose Marine husband was wounded at war. After becoming his caregiver, she became a widow at just 24 when he died of opioid addiction.
Karie talks about grappling with the fact that her husband didn’t have to die if he had the right resources. But while the VA might know how to treat what physically ails veterans, they haven’t been as skilled at helping them with mental health issues.
Now we’re facing a time when things are just now getting better — but Elon’s DOGE minions have been hacking away at the VA, including life-saving cancer trials and the suicide hotline. Many veterans are also federal employees who have lost their jobs in the waves of cuts.
“This will kill people,” Karie notes. But she’s still trying to talk with her MAGA neighbors who have confided that this isn’t what they voted for. Because the way that we continue to build our pro-democracy community is with difficult conversations just like these.
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