Where I Feel Unseen

Walking into a VA facility and finding no women's health services, no privacy, no acknowledgment that you might be sitting in that waiting room as the veteran and not the guest — this is not a small inconvenience. It is a structure built around a majority that wasn't you, and it can make an already vulnerable moment feel even more isolating.

Where do you most often feel like your veteran status is invisible — at appointments, in conversations, in your own family? Describe one of those spaces.

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