[Vision2020] vets and PTSD

[James Reynolds]

The article Mr. Hansen posted this morning concerning Post Traumatic Stress 
Disorder should open our eyes to the full impact of what military actions 
entail. A front line soldier coming back to try and fit into society gets 
the headlines but he is only a small part of the entire tragedy. There are 
no clear cut fixes for PTSD because there has been a fundamental shift in 
how that soldier fits into society. He has undergone training and situations 
that have reduced the fundamental sacred nature of life to its biological 
simplicity and the soldier's own life as worthless.

If a child goes through infantry training it is taught that it is no better 
than a bug and that its life is forfeit to the country. Our own boys and 
girls become expendable objects for our Commander-in-Chief to do with as he 
pleases. This training and the final mindset is mandatory for a good army.

If we add the fact that the current war (as Vietnam) has no clear 
justification, no clear enemy, and no clear victories what we end up 
bringing home are many, many, many messed up young people.

We have to put ourselves in the boots of our young soldiers. We need to 
think about ourselves being trained to understand our lives are nothing; put 
ourselves into a foreign land surrounded by our potential killer every 
minute. We have to make the greatest effort to give these young people their 
humanity back.

A non-justified war means nothing more than a sentence of death or the loss 
of humanity to our children without any benefit to the Nation. How can 
anyone support such a war? What is our nation becoming? We allow our 
children to be sent to death or destruction on the words of liars and by the 
deceptions of war profiteers and then allow these same maggots to take our 
money from the treasury to line their pockets while declining to allow the 
best care for our young soldiers when they come back to us.

As was said...The drum beat goes on...

James Reynolds

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