In 2012, he appeared on the season six finale of Army Wives as a physical therapist treating injured veterans.

Bessel A. van der Kolk, who runs one of the country's largest trauma clinics, in Brookline, Mass., remembers treating veterans after the war.

"I'll tell you, it just isn't right that we treat veterans as second-class citizens in this country."

A Korean War veteran himself, Dr. James Allen had treated veterans at the VA for more than thirty years.

"That's how they said they were going to treat black veterans back then," Brezette Johnson said.

Mr. Harper said that part of the reason might be a collective national guilt over the way this country has treated veterans in the past 40 years.

The resort was also used by the United States military as a rehabilitation center from 1943-1944 to treat injured veterans of World War II.

But my friends and what they tried to do for me doesn't excuse a whole Empire for the heedless way they treated other veterans who fought and sacrificed.

It quickly became the largest training center in the country, driven by the country's demand for psychiatrists to treat military veterans.

He believes that government should pay to treat veterans in private hospitals, arguing they will get better care more cost-effectively.