I had a chance this past September to talk to a Minnesota war vet who did a couple of tours in Afghanistan. He was a young man in his early 30's who served as part of the military police in the US Army. His job was to protect high ranking Generals and escort them to where ever they needed to be. On one particular misson his Humvee drove over an IED and both himself and the General were seriously injured. To this day he still suffers PTSD from the incident.
It's quite scarey when you see a grown man drop to the floor and cower in fear when someone drops a plate on the floor. That's all it took to trigger a PTSD response from him.
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