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After reading the article and the comments and also remembering the way that I heard a grown man scream and cry during the night, I just sit hear feeling empty, I guess the reason for feeling empty has to do with the realization that this is not something new and yet nothing ever seems to change. We welcome home those who serve, and today we remember the sacrifice of those who died and those who served, and yet how many of us realize that what these people went thought while serving their countries was only the first part of the hell that they were going to live with. Another part of feeling empty likely comes from knowing that as a society we allow our governments unlimited finances to fight war and yet when it comes to money to help those who have served we really fall short.

I know that I'm just a single person and not society but I feel that as a person who has known about ptsd for many years and having never done anything about it in any way I owe a lot of people an apology, although I know that doesn't really mean squat to those who have fought this by themselves, and in that battle there have been both winners and losers. Sort of p*sses me off how in some battles we refuse to recognize the casualties or heroes.

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