Not really sure where I wanted to go with this story, but I felt it deserved a little wider audience than just the local newspaper.


http://www.twincities.com/ci_9628903


Hopefully, lessons are being learned, and our returning vets are getting better care and recognition of potential "melt-downs".

With this administration I highly doubt it. it's also important to realize that PTSD is not something thats very easy to "treat" because it's so very differant for each veteran in its manifestation and symptoms. couple that with the fact that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to reach a severe stage good luck and best wishes for those tasked with trying to get ahandle on this very real and serious problem.
Case in point is that to this day we still have many of our Nam vets who struggle with what they experianced more than 30 years ago.

To me the greatest crime of this administration is it's failure to realize (or care) what it takes for a soldier to be able go into a place like Iraq where there is no clear line or demarkation between friend and foe. because what this takes is a severe twist of a persons mind. you take a kid from average town america who's closest combat experiance is a fight in the high school hall's who's father did a good job and taught him you never hit a woman, ever! no matter what then throw him into a place where he should put a bullet into grandma's head as easily as taking a morning piss. and then we wonder why they come home broken.

War take's a righteous reason. during the great war those existed. we had Pearl we had Nazi aggresion and although the Buchenwalds and Auschwitzs only came to light at the end it gave a great justification for the horrors of war those men experianced. the deaths and bloodshed while never to be forgotten were righteous and our cause was good.
compare that to Iraq where every banner waved and cause given has changed when the former has proven untrue. do you see a righteousness here? I don't. our troops today still live the horrors of war as have many many generations of soldiers past. the big differance bieng that today once they walk in the door there is no coat rack of justification for them to hang the combat gear on and easily don the ballcap of Dad and Husband.