Does PTSD affect our veterans?

[unhappycamper]

Soldier sentenced for strangling wife
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Aug 20, 2010 20:49:58 EDT

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A Thurston County Superior Court judge has sentenced a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier to about 14 ½ in prison for strangling his wife.

The Olympian reports 28-year-old Sheldon Plummer had returned from his third deployment to Iraq in August 2009. He pleaded guilty to strangling his wife, Winter Plummer, after a dispute in February at their apartment near Lacey.

Winter Plummer was also an Iraq War veteran. Their 2-year-old daughter, Taylor, is now living with Winter’s sister in Arizona.

[Adsos Letter]

1. Yes, I would say so, and this may very well be a case of that...

but many suffer without exhibiting a tragic manifestation of this type. Their pain is often unaddressed.

I've been doing quite a lot of reading on the socio-political aspects of the Civil War recently, and I was impressed by how many personal accounts of veterans who served in 3-year regiments (especially those who took part in the campaigns of 1864, where combat was almost a daily experience for many) involve the acknowledgment that the full emotional impact of battles had remained a part of their daily consciousness well into old age.

War sucks for everyone involved except those who profit from it. We need to repeal those tax cuts for the rich, and apply sufficient funds to do our best to heal our broken servicemen and women.

And, we need to end the war in Afghanistan.

I know you are a combat veteran, I am a veteran, but not combat, and I realize there is an eternity of difference there; I'm just making a general statement here, not trying at all to preach at you.

EDIT: spelling

[old mark]

2. UC - the US has looked after its veterans ONE TIME in its history to my knowledge -

during and after WWII. The "Greatest Generation" got super veteran's benefits - and then denied them to their own kids coming back from Vietnam and their grandkids coming home now. WWII was followed by a huge increase in the GDP here in the US that enabled us the help finance re-birth of the economies of many other nations impoverished and destroyed by WWII, with the US in the lead.
Veterans of Korea and every war since have been marginalized and still make up part of our large number of homeless and drug addicted...

I keep hoping we will decide to do it right this time.

mark
rec.

[Greyhound]

3. Here's a quote from a lifer that served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam,

"The casualty rate in every war is 100%"

So, according to one who was in a position to know, yes of course it does.