In this case a member of Congress came to the Veterans’ Bureau and
stated that he had been excursioned around from department to department
in his effort to obtain assistance in coming to the rescue of a boy who
had been discharged from the U.S. military service against medical
advice, suffering from melancholia, and who was sent to his home at the
earnest request of his parents, as it was believed that his return to
normalcy would be more quickly effected in the environment of his home
and under parental care, than in a hospital. The Congressman went on to
relate that after remaining home for about four months, the boy was one
day reported missing. Diligent inquiry and searching parties failed to
locate him, and a river nearby suggested the possibility of an accident
or suicide. We will drop the curtain on this distressing situation, for
we know by the law of the universal heart of the suffering that must
have followed in that afflicted home.