U.S. President Barack Obama pledged Saturday to support soldiers returning from Iraq as the U.S. prepares to end its combat mission there next week. "What today's veterans have earned-what they have every right to expect-is new care, new opportunity, and a new commitment to their service when they come home," President Obama said in his weekly radio address. President Obama focused his message on ways that his administration is trying to improve services for veterans, including modernizing and expanding Veterans Administration hospitals and health care, creating a single electronic healthcare record for veterans and building new wounded warrior facilities through the U.S. Department of Defense. He also said his administration is putting more money toward treating post traumatic stress disorder by hiring more health care workers and increasing investments in awareness, outreach and suicide prevention. "As we mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq, a grateful nation must pay tribute to all who have served there," President Obama said. "Because part of the responsibly ending this war is meeting our responsibility to those who have fought it."
