More News on Veterans with PTSD out of, and Alarmingly in, War
Oct 24, 2008

Cross-posted on Daily Kos diary

ABC World News reported last night that more and more soldiers are being returned to Iraq for subsequent tours with clear symptoms and often diagnosis of PTSD and on anti-depressant or anti-anxiety medication – another depressing example of the toll that this war has taken on our Armed Forces. We’ve known this for a while, but this report caught my attention.

Unfortunately, if the branches who have taken the biggest brunt of the war, the Army and Marines, don’t recruit more soldiers (unlikely to happen, both branches admit severe recruiting challenges), I predict more and more stories like this to continually surface.