My Dad was a World War II vet and a VA Hospital Volunteer - he came around to believe that the Viet Nam Vets who were spending the rest of their lives in a crappy VA Hospital were betrayed by our Government.
George Carlin said it best:
“…the war in Vietnam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it’s no surprise that the very same condition was called “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Still eight syllables, but we’ve added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I’ll bet you if we’d have still been calling it ‘Shellshock’, some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I’ll betcha that. I’ll betcha that.”