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[fortdixlover]

Interesting news item from Yale:

Some Vets Better After 9/11

After the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, veterans with pre-existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showed fewer symptoms - including nightmares, reactions to loud noises and numbness of feelings - then veterans admitted to clinics and hospitals in the previous six months and in previous years, according to a Yale study [published in Psychiatric Services] ... althought they were far from cured, these patients "seem to have benefited from the increased sense of community, patriotism and pride across the country."

My observations are:

1. Vietnam vets would likely not have suffered as much from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to begin with had the country in the late 1960's and early 1970's provided them with an "increased sense of community, patriotism and pride", and:
2. All vets should ask exactly who was behind the hellish environment they found when they did return from Vietnam. I'll provide most of the answer: the flower power children (today's Left), the VVAW, and John Kerry and Hanoi Jane.

FDL

[Indianbaboon]

dix lover, i could kiss you.

thanks. I've been waiting for some kind of documentable and statistical trend showing just this sort of hting.

[fortdixlover]

[Indianbaboon]

most definitely...I"m tired of people telling me that protestors didn't have this effect...we all know they screwed you guys. Shoot, anti-war protestors have a noticeable effect on the morale and spirits of ROTC kids in college; one can only wonder how much more deeply it affected vietnam vets.



that and i'm a future psychiatrist, so this stuff always interests me