Soldiers & Suicide: A Warrior Poet’s Nightmare
May 24, 2010 posted by indythinker · Leave a Comment
This heart wrenching take on Soldiers, Veterans, and Suicide was sent into us by Brother Willie Hager and our friends at VetSpeak.
Graphics added by Major Hanafin from public domain sources.
Frankly, it is this aspect of coping, or not coping, with PTSD that concerns us at Veterans Today the most when we note that Psychiatrists and Psychologists (meaning well or not) tend to be focusing only on (1) active duty troops admitting PTSD, and (2) what it takes to prepare and send them back into combat as opposed to when they decide, or are forced, to become VETERANS.
Veterans Today Editorial Comment: I just finished reading the PTSD Comic Book – Coming Home by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon both experienced as the managing editor and editor-in-chief at Harvey and Marvel Comics with Mr. Colon having worked for Harvey, Marvel, and DC comics giving us such great comic book characters as Richie Rich, the Green Lantern, Wonder Women, Blackhawk, and the Flash. I received Coming Home: What to expect, how to deal when you return from combat from an Air Force Mental Health Clinic. Although in my opinion such effort combined with other innovative approaches to do an end run around the stigma associated with PTSD and Mental Health in general, the theme still remains the same: Troops can stay on active duty, adjust to the endless deployments, and best yet from a Pentagon standpoint be sent back into combat. I personally have a problem with doing this end run around sending Mentally Ill troops back into combat. I would not have a problem with retaining troops on active duty but making them ineligible for re-deployment to a combat zone. Major Bobby Hanafin
There is no better way to express what is missing from approaches like Full Spectrum Warrior, and more to the point the combat simulator Virtual Iraq, and comic book – Coming Home then articulate what is on the minds of Vets who question their role in the war(s) regardless if they are now Vets or still on active duty. We at Veterans Today know that both the VA and DoD thus far have done an end run around this aspect of PTSD by IGNORING those troops or Veterans who QUESTION their roles in these war(s).
Read more:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/24/soldiers-suicide-a-warrior-poets-nightmare/
This heart wrenching take on Soldiers, Veterans, and Suicide was sent into us by Brother Willie Hager and our friends at VetSpeak.
Graphics added by Major Hanafin from public domain sources.
Frankly, it is this aspect of coping, or not coping, with PTSD that concerns us at Veterans Today the most when we note that Psychiatrists and Psychologists (meaning well or not) tend to be focusing only on (1) active duty troops admitting PTSD, and (2) what it takes to prepare and send them back into combat as opposed to when they decide, or are forced, to become VETERANS.
Veterans Today Editorial Comment: I just finished reading the PTSD Comic Book – Coming Home by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon both experienced as the managing editor and editor-in-chief at Harvey and Marvel Comics with Mr. Colon having worked for Harvey, Marvel, and DC comics giving us such great comic book characters as Richie Rich, the Green Lantern, Wonder Women, Blackhawk, and the Flash. I received Coming Home: What to expect, how to deal when you return from combat from an Air Force Mental Health Clinic. Although in my opinion such effort combined with other innovative approaches to do an end run around the stigma associated with PTSD and Mental Health in general, the theme still remains the same: Troops can stay on active duty, adjust to the endless deployments, and best yet from a Pentagon standpoint be sent back into combat. I personally have a problem with doing this end run around sending Mentally Ill troops back into combat. I would not have a problem with retaining troops on active duty but making them ineligible for re-deployment to a combat zone. Major Bobby Hanafin
There is no better way to express what is missing from approaches like Full Spectrum Warrior, and more to the point the combat simulator Virtual Iraq, and comic book – Coming Home then articulate what is on the minds of Vets who question their role in the war(s) regardless if they are now Vets or still on active duty. We at Veterans Today know that both the VA and DoD thus far have done an end run around this aspect of PTSD by IGNORING those troops or Veterans who QUESTION their roles in these war(s).
Read more:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/24/soldiers-suicide-a-warrior-poets-nightmare/
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