PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder did not start with the Vietnam war, and has been known by different names over the centuries of war. While PTSD has only been officially recognized since 1980 it’s origins can be traced back to the civil war at least.
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7-Percent of Living Americans Have Served in the Military; Freedom is Not Free
By Larry Nader, US Navy Veteran As of 2014, the Department of Veteran Affairs estimates there were 22 million military veterans in the U.S. population. If you add their figures on veterans to the 1.4 million active personnel (only 0.4% of the population of America), it brings you to a mere 7.3 percent of all …
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Screwing Our Vets; Our Government’s 243 Year Time-Honored Tradition
It seems that you cannot go a day reading local and national news or looking at social media posts without yet another story on the US Government and its breaking of promises to take care of veterans who become sick and/or injured/disabled while serving our country. To many this appears to be new stuff, but …
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The Ranting Vet 