04-05-2009, 02:31 AM
There was a report on PBS news tonight on this subject. Apparent;y the number of suicides among Iraq war vets has increased beyond the antional average. They are saying that with each tour of duty in Iraq the potential for suicide increases.The story revolved around this guy who had been a happy go luck guy with a wife and children but after his stints in Iraq he came home a changed man - angry, waking up with nighmares of dead bodies, blood and horrible visions. His kids became scared of him. His wife convinced him to go to the VA (His insurance had been cancelled) but the VA put h im off with paperwork and didn't want to take any responsibility - as usual. The guy couldn't take it much longer and blew his brains out.The government, gave the widow about enough money to bury him and that was it. After the story got out, the government gave her more money and the VA promised they'd look into dealing Post Traumatic Stress. We support our troops going to fight a senseless war for Iraqi opil to make the rich oil cartels richer, but we don't want them to bring any problems home or if they do we don't want to deal with them.I say;"Support our troops, BRING THEM HOME!"
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