Band Launches Drive

The Dave Matthews Band is urging fans to push Congress to do more to ensure that U.S. troops coming home traumatized by combat get the help they need. This is certainly a most worthy cause. A petition on the Band's Website has 23,000 signatures so far. The Pentagon and Congress are reviewing possible changes in the military's much criticized mental health system. A task force, last month, found that more than one-third of troops and veterans suffer from problems such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.