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It was OK to kill the teenager as long as it's a drug raid?

And what are our soldiers doing conducting drug raids in foreign countries. They can't even do that here.

I hate that John Bunnel idiot as much as the next guy, but do you have to have some Pavlovian response every time the word 'drug' appears in a thread?

Nice Pavlov reference- I'd thought the same for so long but those dogs are now salivating at a new post to drool on just for the chance to use the rest of the board as a hydrant.

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PTSD has always been a mystery me.  So many soldiers have been diagnosed with it yet it was rarely if ever diagnosed for the veterans coming back from WWII.  Not that it didn't exist but because they didn't have a label for it.  My suspicions always arouse as to who's legit and who isn't especially with the whole "stolen valor" issue.  I've concluded that it's really not for me to judge nor is it really any of my business.

I came across a story about an old friend that was in my platoon many years ago and she recently shared her story of the time she was a police officer and who unfortunately had to kill a man in the line of duty.  I was surprised at how emotional I got when I read it and have a new found respect for what our police officers go through above the respect I already had for them.

This is her story from buzzfeed.com
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PTSD has always been a mystery me.  So many soldiers have been diagnosed with it yet it was rarely if ever diagnosed for the veterans coming back from WWII.  Not that it didn't exist but because they didn't have a label for it.  My suspicions always arouse as to who's legit and who isn't especially with the whole "stolen valor" issue.  I've concluded that it's really not for me to judge nor is it really any of my business.

It's been my thoughts as well.  It seems to me the high number of those coming back from specifically Iraq were claiming PTSD yet most of my friends who were in 'Nam don't exhibit any problems at least now.

Here's one article, Is Shell Shock the Same as PTSD.

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22 veterans commit suicide each day

http://time.com/3694053/veteran-suicide/
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^ That's a shame.  It would be interesting to know if the per capita suicide rate was any higher, the same, or lower with WWII vets?
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in World War I it was called Shell Shock.  In World War II and Korea it was Battle Fatigue.  In the post Vietnam era it became PTSD.  All pretty much the same, just we've learned to understand and treat it better.  Still it's a hugh problem.  As to whether WWII vets didn't seem to suffer from it as much is a little misleading.  I think that generation was more stoic about it, not really wanting to talk about it as much.  Interesting story about Audie Murphy (our most decorated soldier in WWII). He never had a problem with his war experiances until he filmed his bio-pic "To Hell and Back" in the 1950s.  the act of recreating and reliving all he had gone trough in WWII actually triggered his PTSD which he dealth with till his death in 1972.

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