On Jun 17, 11:43 am, stoney <sto...@the.net> wrote:

Of course it is. It will always be that way.
People are easier to replace, and cheaper.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19267926/

Mental health system ill equipped for PTSD
Troops returning with psychological wounds confront bureaucracy, stigma

By Dana Priest and Anne Hull

Updated: 10:35 p.m. ET June 16, 2007

Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home
to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to
help him start a new life. The mayor of New York, officials of his
parents' home town in Puerto Rico, the borough president and other local
dignitaries honored him with plaques and silk parade sashes. They handed
him their business cards and urged him to phone.

But a "black shadow" had followed Cruz home from Iraq, he confided to an
Army counselor. He was hounded by recurring images of how war really was
for him: not the triumphant scene of Hussein in handcuffs, but visions
of dead Iraqi children.

In public, the former Army scout stood tall for the cameras and marched
in the parades. In private, he slashed his forearms to provoke the pain
and adrenaline of combat. He heard voices and smelled stale blood. Soon
the offers of help evaporated and he found himself estranged and alone,
struggling with financial collapse and a darkening depression.

/excerpt

--
Atheist n A person to be pitied in that he is
unable to believe things for which there is
no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of
a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

-Chaz Bufe, The American Heretic's Dictionary

I was told by the VA there is nothing we can do about it nor
would they try to do anything about it.

I was told by the VA there is nothing we can do about it nor
would they try to do anything about it.