Ptsd

[Boltlady]

So many of our returning service people are suffering from this but in all too many cases, the military denies them treatment for it. That is an absolute crying shame.

To me, if a person has been in a combat zone in Iraq or Afghanistan, I would be really upset if that person did not have PTSD. After all, the things that they've seen and all too often had to participate in, are things that we simply were not raised to experience. If killing innocent civilians, often women and children, doesn't eat at them then they have some serious psychological problems.

Oh and BTW, the military has come up with a solution to all of those terrible things that we've seen pictures of, like pissing on bodies, etc. Instead of getting through to the troops about exercising humanity, they simply won't be allowed to take any more pictures!!! That way we won't all know what's happening.

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/05/25/military-to-avoid-embarrassing-pictures-by-banning-photography/

 

[ARMCX1]

There isn't any question that our armed forces have suffered the consequences of over a decade of continuous war. Permanent disabilities, problems re-adapting to social norms, and unemployment are going to be long term hurdles for our veterans in the coming years.

During WWII, photos of US troops killed in action were routine and widely disseminated.

Wars have rarely been popular affairs but it seems to me that one lesson the nation learned since Vietnam is that it has to hide the bodies in order to conduct it's wars.