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Iraqi Veterans
So I was listening to NPR on the way home from work, and they were talking about the similarities between Iraqi vets and vietnam vets. I nearly started crying, (this war is so sad). The 'nam vets can believe how much worse the iraqi vets are. Mainly the 'nam vets were there for 12 months, and then they were done with it. But now the soldiers in iraq are going for term after term after term.
One veteran recalled a story of his son that he calls the incident. A few weeks ago while in the garage, his son Eli started to hallucinate that he was being ambushed by Iraqi's. His father tried to hold him tight and tell him that he was fine, that he had him covered. He thinks it might of work, but he can't really say if Eli even knew if he was there, or if he was in Iraqi himself.
Was really heart breaking.
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Iraqi Veterans
the cold hearted say those are weak people.
i met a Iraqi veteran, he was a marine. He came back drank every night, wore the 2 dog tags of the 2 soldiers he killed face to face that he was ordered to shoot. a few days after i met him, he hung himself in his room.
it really is sad and something needs to be done, more money should be going to psychological treatment needs to be given to these people who are so affected, also full Health Care that they were promised needs to be given, and their full college tuition paid for. This should all be taken care of before the U.S. buys another bomb, ammo, gun etc.
Mike Gravel supports the veterans. :thumbsup:
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Iraqi Veterans
It is a huge problem. Soldier's coming back from battle with serious mental problems are being written off as having a "personally disorder", even though the soldier had no "disorder" before going.
The forces are really stretched and the US government could give a shit about the vets.
I don't know what is going to be done, but I feel like a draft might be somewhere.
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Iraqi Veterans
...that "thousand yard stare"...is hard to get rid of...:cool:...