New Veterans Advocate Appointed for Northern Wyoming LARAMIE, WY (wpr) - The new veterans advocate for northern Wyoming says the service men and women coming back from war have less time to readjust to life at home.

Bob Bragg says homecoming these days doesn't happen the way it used to -- for example, when his father came home from World War Two: "Took him six weeks on a troop ship to come back from Guam, and then he had another six months in the military before he ever hit Wyoming. These young men and women are on an airplane and between 24 and 36 hours they're standing in their front yard, trying to figure out which way is up."

Bragg says his job is to help returning service members get used to life at home and encourage them to get counseling for post traumatic stress syndrome and other mental health problems. He says families also have to get used to having their service member back home. © Copyright 2009, wpr