Tough to watch and tougher to read.
The toughest battle that these kids have is when they actually leave the battlefield, and as one friend who served in Afghanistan told me "You're left with the quiet"
After WW1, WW2, and even Korea, veteran's almost hid their affliction under bluster and drinking, I don't have any stats on me, but the rate of alcholism among those groups of vets was staggering.
After Vietnam it was sinking into the drug culture.
One things that's a positive is that PTSD is recognized as a real thing now, its not battle fatigue, or shell shock or cowardice, its a real thing and it happens. The problem now is that they think that the cure is pretty much to throw prescriptions at it like its merely a physical thing. Its almost lazy help, for the most part these kids need to talk, and this is a community that doesn't encourage that, it encourages toughness, and problem solving in a chaotic environment, but unlike Hollywood, one soldier won't go to another soldier and tell his that he's messed up, your expected to put your suffering in the shadows and put on a brave face for your brothers, because they can't trust you if your twitchy, that attitude extends to civilian life as well.
One of the oldest and most brilliant quotes is that "War is Hell" and that is true, there is nothing more terrifying and awe inspiring then a battlefield, but the truth is that War might be hell but its what happens after the war ends that condemns you.
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