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Sarah Palin Suggests Arrested Son Track Suffers From PTSD
abc news ^ | 1-20-2016 | SHUSHANNAH WALSHE, PAOLA CHAVEZ, AND BEN GITTLESON

Posted on 01/20/2016 1:18:54 PM PST by Citizen Zed

Speaking at a rally today for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested that her son Track, who was arrested this week for a domestic violence incident, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

"I guess it's kind of an elephant in the room, because my own family -- going through what we're going through today," Palin said at the event in Oklahoma alluding to Track's arrest. "My son, a combat vet, having served in a Stryker Brigade for you all, America in the war zone; but my son, like so many others, they came back a bit different."

She added, "I can certainly relate with other families who feel these ramifications of some PTSD."

Track Palin, 26, was arrested Monday night in Wasilla, Alaska. An Iraq veteran who enlisted in the Army Sept. 11, 2007, Track Palin was charged with three misdemeanors, including assault, interference with the reporting of a domestic violence crime and weapons possession while intoxicated, according to Alaska court records.

He allegedly punched and kicked his girlfriend before she says she thought he might shoot himself, according to the criminal complaint.

It is unclear whether he has entered a plea, and a family lawyer did not respond to ABC News' requests for comment.

The former Alaska governor, who endorsed Trump Tuesday, also suggested that President Obama deserved some of the blame for the psychological condition of veterans.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ghettoname; track; trackisaghettoname
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To: Citizen Zed
It took 3 reporters to write this incomprehensible garblefest.

He allegedly punched and kicked his girlfriend before she says she thought he might shoot himself ...

41 posted on 01/20/2016 1:55:46 PM PST by Tax-chick (Onions are a woman's weapon.)
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To: bramps

My father once attempted to strangle my mother. If you knew my mother, you’d cheer him on.


42 posted on 01/20/2016 1:55:54 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: Alas Babylon!

Wrong year, it was 2008.

Try finding this fact in Google or Bing. Almost every hit is a Leftist story disparaging the Palins, with lots of opinion, and very few FACTS.

All I wanted to know was his military service record; not how many times his sisters’ got pregnant, or why people hate Sarah, or why he’s a drunk.

The world Left of this site HATES the Palins.


43 posted on 01/20/2016 2:00:35 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: ifinnegan

Well.... Keep in mind that some things just weren’t talked about then, especially mental health. A couple of the men in my family who served became alcoholics after returning.

They held down jobs and had families (one more successfully than the other) but they did struggle.


44 posted on 01/20/2016 2:00:41 PM PST by Nickname
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To: kiltie65

Audie Murphy was a wreck, unfortunately. Although he sustained a good movie career, he was a reckless gambler who actually borrowed money from the mob! If you read the very good book “Picture,” he speaks not of his shell shock but of his terrible war memories and how the war dominated his every waking moment. Only horseback rides helped. I am a huge fan of this man. He led an interesting and yet very sad life.


45 posted on 01/20/2016 2:01:10 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: ifinnegan

Many World War II Vets had problems that weren’t addressed. You need to do some homework.


46 posted on 01/20/2016 2:01:24 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Then I pray that he gets the help he needs.


47 posted on 01/20/2016 2:03:21 PM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: onedoug

ping


48 posted on 01/20/2016 2:24:14 PM PST by windcliff
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To: ifinnegan
WWII it was called shell shock. The vets got married and raised families. Committed relationships and responsibility.

And there were those who ultimately committed suicide or fell into a history of abusing their own families. Then there were also those who were institutionalized for the remainder of their lives or who died as unknowns living on the streets and the final remaining soldiers still suffering from lack of care from the VA........

So what's your F'n point?

49 posted on 01/20/2016 2:38:48 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
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To: donna

I agree with you! Taking pills doesn’t ‘work through’ anything. It MAYBE just covers it up. And most of those drugs have potentially deadly side effects- not to mention suicides. We’re losing too many of our vets to suicide as it is. A bunch of the mass shooters that have happened were taking SSRIs, .


50 posted on 01/20/2016 2:43:18 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: goodwithagun

Dear God you people are heartless. How about you spend some time with those vets, get educated on exactly what they are dealing with and the utter lack of viable assistance from our broken down pathetic VA. Then come back and make your idiotic jokes, because hey, it’s always fun to kick someone when their down, right?


51 posted on 01/20/2016 2:45:09 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

My God, you hateful, vicious, judgmental people should be ashamed of yourself. Until you have walked a mile in their shoes, keep your nasty, vile remarks to yourself. Jesus despised people like you Pharisees who think you are so much better than others. You are sickening.


52 posted on 01/20/2016 2:47:00 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: Catsrus

Your self-righteous pietism is showing.
I guess I’m not as “good” as you...

We live by Grace.


53 posted on 01/20/2016 2:49:42 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

This has nothing to do with me and everything to do with your judgmental attitude. We live by grace? Then how about some empathy for those who have been wounded both physically and emotionally in war - You are a dam*ed self-righteous hypocrite.


54 posted on 01/20/2016 2:52:26 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: Citizen Zed

Being in combat messes with you mind.


55 posted on 01/20/2016 2:53:54 PM PST by Carnac the Magnificent
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

You must be a hard man.


56 posted on 01/20/2016 2:53:54 PM PST by Carnac the Magnificent
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To: Citizen Zed

Is there a guy who follows the Palins around playing the Deliverance theme on a banjo - or does it just seem that way?


57 posted on 01/20/2016 2:54:05 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: kiltie65

Audie Murphy saw he was getting addicted to the pills and locked himself in a hotel room and went cold turkey on his own


58 posted on 01/20/2016 3:02:48 PM PST by uncbob
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To: Citizen Zed
Or Track was programmed using MK Ultra techniques. How else does one explain him going postal literally on the eve of his Mom's endorsement of Trump? 4 tours in Iraq was plenty of time away from prying eyes to isolate and program him.
59 posted on 01/20/2016 3:12:51 PM PST by montag813
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To: Slyfox

Just testing for “new” meds same VA as always- here just take this, You will feel better (if You live...)


60 posted on 01/20/2016 3:15:09 PM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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