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Originally Posted by sleepwalk
I think it has more to do with the diagnosis of PTSD. My grandfather never was diagnosed when he came back from WWII and a friend of mine never was after Nam. They refuse to talk about anything except how awful the food was. PTSD? Maybe. I haven't sat in on what constitutes a correct diagnosis or not.
It's not that these men and women haven't been through hell. I believe that they have and that PTSD is real and is a problem. It's just that we are encountering it now and when it used to be "shell shock" the symptoms were put into two categories: "severe" and "who cares?"
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I think you are right. There are probably many degrees of intensity of the symptoms that range from mild to severe. I'm glad vets that have a problem and need help are getting attention. I'm concerned that their problem - which is a likely consequence of any war or phyical trauma - is being exploited by the liberals for their own ends. The vets become victims twice in that case.
I know and have met several guys who have done tours in "the sandbox" (Iraq) and Afghanistan. Some are off to their 3rd tour. A story that hasn't been getting reported is how the hundreds of thousands of men and women cycling through their tours are coming back with a much greater appreciation for the exceptionalism of the United States, and an appreciation of many things they had taken for granted before - family, friends, security, prosperity, freedom, etc., etc., that has bolstered their feelings in the face of the negatives of being in a war.