When Soldiers Return from ‘Wars Of Choice’!

This is just one result of the Apathy after the Cheering and Support of!

The above video comes from this report Researcher uncovers what caused Gulf War Syndrome

The Country, who cheers them on, goes into Denial and Refusal to grant what is owed to those they send!

The first Gulf war was a War of Choice when Bush Sr gave a certain old U.S. buddy a ‘wink and a nod’!

The conflict I served in was a War of Choice built on lies with the lies continuing, even to today, and just one of the many results was returning military suffering from results of Defoliant Spraying which Government, Producers of, and the Public Denied it had adverse effects. Vietnamesse and Soldiers are still suffering the effects and this Country still Denies!

How many of you pay attention to the results of the first gulf war, Gulf War Syndrom, and the thousands of Veterans, and their families, suffering from the effects of?

There are other reports that trickle out, as there were with the defoliants of ‘Nam, like this one from Australia that people who really care pay attention to, others just give passing glances to.

Every day five U.S. soldiers attempt to take their own precious lives in the U.S. army. Or this article about Military Suicides which gives referance to present mysterious ailments of returning OIF Military personal.

Many U.S. veterans of the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq have complained of a range of serious diseases, including tumors, chronic blood strains in their urine and stool, sexual dysfunction, migraines, frequent muscular spasms, and other health issues similar to the debilitating symptoms of the “Gulf War Syndrome” and the Vietnam War Syndrome, known as “Agent Orange”.

Which is a Powerful Writeup that should be a Must Read, giving context to the Suicides and PTSD, which I’ll get to shortly, I suggest you visit and read!

Here are a few more recent reports on ‘Gulf War Syndrom’ you can view Here and Here, the second one again coming out of Australia.

A BIG Thank You goes out to Ilona Meagher over at PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within, if you don’t visit You Should! Ilona posts up some very important information and reports that should be read and embedded in this countries concious.

She has two recent ones that are powerful reminders, out of many, of what the Tragic Trauma’s many experiance, from the Combat Battlefields to the Extreme Tragedies within a society, can do to some who live them. Many of those who suffer from do so Silently, especially those who never experiance the Combat Trauma’s but their own events that live on within them, as well as the Combat Soldier who won’t admit to his or hers concious reminders and triggers.

The first, Unknown Allies: School Shooting Victims and Combat Veterans that others should read and follow the back links.

Those of you who read PTSD Combat regularly know I’m currently a student at Northern Illinois University and shared my experiences the day of the shooting and beyond.

After all these years, and the many Wars, with returning troops, and the civilians of countries invaded, suffering from their Traumatic Nightmares of the Living Hell on Earth, PTSD is Finally being mentioned as a result to many who live through the personal and collective tragedies a society create.

It gave mention in an article, from my old hometown paper, I happened to catch yesterday, Discovery still haunts man, a very sad story about a baby:

“It was almost like a post-traumatic stress kind of thing. . . . It was haunting for a number of years, even today,” he said.

Along with the above I’ve heard it brought into the public realm, where it should already have been, a few times recently. One was a movie on Lifetime. The main charactor described an event from her childhood that haunts her with nightmares and fear that she, which was what the movie was about, was trying to rid herself from. Another was an interview on NPR where the young women mentions the trauma of her mothers death, both actually say the four important letters, PTSD.

The second post Ilona has is about Combat PTSD and the effects of on one soldier.

She posts the Video’s of a recent show on PBS’s A&E ‘Intervention’ Program

That link brings you to her site post, but hopefully she won’t mind, I’m bringing it over to you, as it contains just a short introduction with five video’s containing the show.

As Ilona writes:

A&E’s Intervention program recently featured a segment on Brad, a young man coping with his PTSD by self-medicating with alcohol and marijuana after two Iraq tours with the 101st Airborne.

For those unfamiliar with the show, Intervention is a “series in which people confront their darkest demons and seek a route to redemption” by profiling “people whose dependence on drugs and alcohol or other compulsive behavior has brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones.” Brad’s journey is a powerful and important episode.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

This planet, not only this country, but this country Must Take The Lead, must finally start to realize what it’s Wars of Choice do to those they send but more important to those innocents forced into that Hell, the Long Term Effects!

By doing so it will better understand what, in silence, many living within it’s communities are going through from their own extreme tramatic life events and how it effects much of what they do as they moved forward from them, from the silent suffering to possibly causing others experiances that should not have occurred!