Honor the sacrifices veterans made in service to our nation and the freedoms we enjoy.
In his memoir about his experiences as a soldier, “If I Die in a Combat Zone,” Tim O’Brien remembers the day he boarded a plane out of Vietnam, leaving the battlefields that would never leave him. O’Brien climbed the 18 steps to the plane, his vehicle of deliverance. He awaited the drama that everyone said would engulf him. It never did. “You add things up,” he writes.
Ones that may be less violent but no less traumatic. Many feel alienated, lost in a culture that fails to understand their suffering because it is emotional, not physical. PTSD — post-traumatic stress disorder — can be debilitating. One in 5 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans — a total of 300,000 — suffer from the condition. Others suffer from maladies that, while physical, are just as invisible as PTSD. Officials estimate more than 3.
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