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Please read the following article at CBS News Web Site.
This is startling information, whether you're pro-war or not.
If anyone in the depression community is also a member of the veterans support group, please forward this link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3496471.shtml
This is startling information, whether you're pro-war or not.
If anyone in the depression community is also a member of the veterans support group, please forward this link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3496471.shtml
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Okay, getting off my soapbox now, thanks for listening.
I wish our government could be trusted to only start wars when there was no other recourse. Absolutely no other recourse.
And I sure hope some allowances are made for the soldiers who come back home and can't fit in to civilian life anymore. I hope they won't just be kicked to the back of the closet and forgotten.
I don't think it's patriotic to perpetuate a war. Especially a war you don't agree with. I believe it is my patriotic duty to hold my government accountable for its actions. I admire the soldiers who serve my country while at the same time, I despise the elected officials who put them in harm's way unnecessarily.
Here is a Web page with links to services available to Veterans. The site itself was started for the benefit of the vets of the war in Iraq, but the services listed here are not all exclusive.
http://www.iraqwarveterans.org/ptsd.htm
My dad served in WW II and the Korean war, and he lost his best buddy and his mother also died while he was serving...although he never saw combat, he was certainly adversely affected the rest of his life.
That's so sad.
I have heard that the care vets get is not the best. And it should be the very best.
My Grandpa had PTSD from WWI and passed on the abuse to his wife and kids. My Dad's folks divorced, but he was one of the Chosin Few in Korea and lost his brother and Dad while serving. He came back with PTSD and was terrifying to grow up with. I have PTSD because of my childhood and some other occurrences, but I've often thought my whole family's lives would have been different if my Grandpa had had adequate psychiatric care.
it's horrible, and there really is no excuse.