POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IS EVERY BIT A CAUALTY OF WAR

If a wartime bullet hits a soldier’s brain, there would never be any question that the soldier’s injury was a casualty of war. If the shock wave from an exploding bomb blew out a soldier’s eardrum, nobody would contest that the soldier’s loss of hearing was a casualty of combat. Why is it then, that servicemen and women who march off to combat and stand ready to sacrifice life and limb for their country, must have their injury questioned when that injury is a mental one? Have we no shame as a country, that we would turn our backs on those who defend our liberty simply because we cannot see their pain? It’s a truly sad day if that’s the case. PTSD is just as deadly a killer as a bullet fired by a rife, and the mental injury it can inflict is just as painful and debilitating. War is hell, and hell is gruesome and bloody and shocking in its depravity, and those conditions injure even the strongest of psyches. It’s about time we all recognize that fact and step-up to help our mentally wounded warriors. They’ve all earned and deserve it!