Spring Break
Fighting for soldier's lives
BJ Allen
Issue date: 11/17/08 Section: News
"A weapon is like a security blanket," she said. "They come back damaged by what they saw or what happened over there. My husband came home and said, 'I feel like I'm the enemy.'"
According to Thompson, the thing that makes PTSD such a challenge is the military's methods for dealing with any psychological problem.
"If you go to get help for PTSD, you are ostracized," said Thompson.
Pruitt, a member of Veterans Against the Iraq War, said, "The people that helped make this the best country in the world deserve that same best."
Pruitt was stationed in Iraq from April 2003 through April 2004.
Upon his return home, he immediately went and purchased a firearm for that feeling of security that Cherry-Haus spoke of.
The military views any psychological trauma in a very negative light, according to Pruitt. Reported symptoms of PTSD are forced to stay on your record with the military. He compared that to drug abuse, which can be completely wiped clean in military records.
The exhibit that was set up at Avila shed some light on the reality of the numbers in the suicide rate. They had a total of 48 military boots painted white. Those boots represented the 34 Missouri and 14 Kansas enlistees that took their own lives upon returning home.
ballen@unews.com
According to Thompson, the thing that makes PTSD such a challenge is the military's methods for dealing with any psychological problem.
"If you go to get help for PTSD, you are ostracized," said Thompson.
Pruitt, a member of Veterans Against the Iraq War, said, "The people that helped make this the best country in the world deserve that same best."
Pruitt was stationed in Iraq from April 2003 through April 2004.
Upon his return home, he immediately went and purchased a firearm for that feeling of security that Cherry-Haus spoke of.
The military views any psychological trauma in a very negative light, according to Pruitt. Reported symptoms of PTSD are forced to stay on your record with the military. He compared that to drug abuse, which can be completely wiped clean in military records.
The exhibit that was set up at Avila shed some light on the reality of the numbers in the suicide rate. They had a total of 48 military boots painted white. Those boots represented the 34 Missouri and 14 Kansas enlistees that took their own lives upon returning home.
ballen@unews.com
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