my eyemake up is all put on. i'm doing a little posting prior to going to work. why am i so sad? because our king and his court don't give a flying yoo hoo about the men and women they are sending into danger. not only don't they care while our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers and friends and neighbors are in iraq and afghanistan, but they don't care when (OR IF) they come home.
no matter what, even if they're whole on the outside, they all come back a bit (degrees vary) broken on the INSIDE. we OWE them. we OWE them big. it is the responsibility of the king and his court to ORDER they get THE BEST treatment possible. not tomorrow, BUT TODAY
Little Relief on Ward 53
At Walter Reed, Care for Soldiers Struggling With War's Mental Trauma Is Undermined by Doctor Shortages and Unfocused Methods
Anne Hull and Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, June 18, 2007; Page A01
On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others around him, Calloway was handcuffed to his stretcher.
When the 20-year-old infantry soldier woke up, he was on the locked-down psychiatric ward at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A nurse handed him pajamas and a robe, but they reminded him of the flowing clothes worn by Iraqi men. He told the nurse, "I don't want to look like a freakin' Haj." He wanted his uniform. Request denied. Shoelaces and belts were prohibited.............
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War is big business and business is good. I live in a small town with a large V.A. Hospital. The travisty of poor care is apparent from the generations of these vets families as they couldn't afford to travel and remained here after the wars, WWII, Korean,Vietnam,and the Middle East. Many impoverished, confused, and incapable of reintegrating into society, the shadow people with ghostly eyes. This current generation of veterans have a bigger burden. The over reaction to the rejection of vietnam vets, gives into the glorifcation of warriors. Leaving, them issolated in either thier pain or shame. King George has seen fit to demonize anti war actions taken by US vets. These soldiers earned their to an opinion. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS THIER RIGHT NOT A PRIVILAGE.Improved medical intervention on the fronts will require more trained professionals to treat them @ home. Spend on health care not an illegal war.
shadow people with ghostly eyes is so haunting and i'm sure so very accurate.
i couldn't agree with you more on the treatment of vets by the way.......
Concerning the article on PTSD, I just wanted to write that it may benefit active duty & veteran family’s / friends of veterans to read a recently released book titled, “Still the Monkey: What Happens to Warriors After War?” "Author Alivia C. Tagliaferri became inspired to write Still the Monkey: What Happens to Warriors After War after she visited the Walter Reed Medical Center in the summer of 2003, and saw first hand the casualties of the War on Terror. Her later interview with a former Marine and Vietnam Veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder helped cement her determination to express the devastating toll of war. Still the Monkey is a historical fiction novel about a Vietnam veteran plagued with pain and sickness, and his fateful meeting with an Iraq veteran who lost both his legs. For ten days inside the walls of Walter Reed's Monologue House, the two of them begin a painful yet ultimately cathartic progression toward healing and learning to live again, one day at a time. A poignant and powerful novel, written out of the deepest respect and admiration for the men and women who put their lives on the line for the sake of their nation.” - Midwest Book Review.
At http://www.ironcuttermedia.com/ you can learn more about this book, which is reality-based work of historical fiction that depicts the problems caused by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among returning veterans. I hope this post helps educate people out there that need assistance. Take care and God bless.
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