
Originally Posted by
scorpio
Read the recent articles in Esquire magazine (the best mag period) Last month they did a great front page story on a young vet from our area who lost both legs and an arm, and still is kicking ass. great inspiration. This months article deals with the overwhelming surge of soldiers with PTSD, and how the government sweeps them under the rug. Some truely scary statistics:
In vietnam, only 20% of the soldiers were actually shot at
In Iraq: 95% (24/7)
In vietnam, less than 5% of soldiers reported kills (average body count was 5)
In Iraq: 80% (with a high percent reporting kills over 100)
How can these guys not be fucked up when they come home?
Iraq is way worse than Vietnam. As Sen Harry Reid just had the balls to say the truth: "Iraq is the biggest foreign relations disaster in our countries history"
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