Still fighting the war, even at home.

poltergeisty · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 11:48 PM

Posting this in case you haven't read about the solider who was made famous by the so called " Zinn photo". This is incredibly sad. It seems to me that there isn't enough help on PTSD. I keep hearing about the lack of this kind of help all the time.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul...Within,00.html

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/0...dwyer_070308w/

af5rn · #2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2008, 12:10 AM

Adios, Bro.

http://www.navytimes.com/xml/news/20..._dwyer_800.JPG

SAR2401 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-22-2008, 12:08 AM

It really is sad. Once he got into huffing solvents, it was just a matter of time before it got him. All casualties of war do not occur on the battlefield.

elk2370bruce · #4 (**permalink**) 07-22-2008, 06:29 PM

The worst scars of war are those you cannot see and those that you can't accept in your own head,remove from your memories, or share with the majority of people. Nothing has changed - just spoken about more since Nam.

mfn002 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 10:02 AM

This is not a new problem. Veterans of the Civil War suffered from this.

DanTSX · #6 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mfn002

This is not a new problem. Veterans of the Civil War suffered from this.

It was callled shell-shock in WWI due to the stress that was caused by sounds mimicing the artilliary on the front-lines.

Cancer is as old as man too, but we understand both to help people with it.

poltergeisty · #7 (**permalink**) 07-25-2008, 01:46 AM

Good point!

ibagli · #8 (**permalink**) 07-25-2008, 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanTSX

It was callled shell-shock in WWI due to the stress that was caused by sounds mimicing the artilliary on the front-lines.

And unfortunately the British Army's "treatment" for the symptoms was in some cases being sent in front of a firing squad.