[ComputerGuy]

A couple of old threads about PTSD and the PH:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015291/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2023146/posts

[DieHard the Hunter]

> to war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because it is not a physical wound.

By the same logic, mental illness is not really an illness. And if it happens as a result of war, it’s not serious enough to deserve a Purple Heart.

What a backward finding. The hack who decided this ought to be bastinadoed.

[RC one]

Not to minimize the suffering of soldiers afflicted with PTSD but if you come home physically intact, you didn’t earn a purple heart. That’s not to say that they didn’t earn disability and benefits though.

[magslinger]

I agree with this not because I don't believe vets can't be as wounded mentally as they can be physically. I believe they can. My reason for agreeing with it is because PTSD is so subjective. There is nothing you can look at and say "Yup, he's got it."

That would allow far too much playing of the system. I am thinking of one particular person who managed to receive the Purple Heart three times. All three wounds together did not amount to either of the wounds my father received. Dad turned down the PH both times because neither was "bad enough." They were both treated and then he returned to duty.

Ironically, dad was sent home on a hospital ship for a broken leg he got after VJ Day.

[Ditter]

I don't know if I have ever mentioned this before but I suffered from what I now think may have been PTSD after received the news that my 18 year old son had been killed in an accident. I continued to relive the scene when the police officers came to our house to inform us that he was dead. I was in such deep shock that I couldn't even discuss what was happening to me. the scene with the police played over and over in front of my eyes for several months and I couldn't shut it off. It was like looking at a piece of film that rolled almost constantly even when I was talking to people. Strangest most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me. Is that anything like what is happening to these soldiers?

[TET1968]

Go to this site and look at First and Second place winners of Picture of The Year.

Warning, before you look at the second place winner, make sure your alone in a private place.

http://www.poyi.org/63/11/01.php