re: #524 Obdicut
Also, saying soldiers become less than human— that’s really, really not a good line of reasoning to go down. That is, in fact, dehumanizing soldiers.
The problem with PTSD, aside from all the other problems with PTSD, is that it comes home with you.
My grandparents divorced after, among other things, my grandfather tried to strangle my grandmother in the dead of night, crying about Japs coming over the hill.
Human beings were not meant to be in high-intensity combat for long periods of time.
And what these kids serving now are up against is longer and longer deployments.