Take it from one who knows. So the dimwit media, trying to obfuscate and excuse the Muslim major’s murderous fling at Jihad, are just taking you and every other sucker down the garden path to stupidity. Grow up and realize that there really are traitors in our midst and this kind of nonsense only strengthens them.
UPDATE: It may be too late. Our society may already be too sick to survive.
The daily devotes much of its front page today to a PTSD story about soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. It is pitched as a benign, help-them-out article, but with the underlying aren’t-you-glad-you-didn’t-join subtext that furthers the civil-military divide explored in this piece by military historian Robert Kaplan who notes:
"I cannot remember how many times a soldier or marine told me that we don’t want to be pitied as victims, but respected as fighters. That respect is not abundant…"
Indeed, it is almost nonexistent among the political and academic elites with whom most journalists identify. So far, Kaplan says, it hasn’t damaged the American military, but he wonders how long it can go on without doing so. He concludes: "…one thing is certain: We’re fated to find out."
On my second visit to Austin’s VA Health Clinic I was impressed by everything: the friendly people, the clean facilities, the new equipment. Got a flu shot from a tech with a no-pain technique. The doc I was assigned to wanted to run me through the normal blood work, but I pointed out I was scheduled for the full deal, including EKG and X-Rays, Dec. 11 in Temple for the Agent Orange Registry. Did he want to duplicate it? Fine with me. He didn’t. I especially liked the ambience that everyone’s on the same page. I saw why my late father-in-law, a Navy retiree, preferred VA hospitals to private ones. PTSD questions in the med exam surprised me. I think they’re more for new veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq than Vietnam after so many years. Nevertheless. Nightmares? Check. Fear of loud noises? Nope. Avoid situations reminding of combat? Nope. Feelings of detachment from others? That one surprised me. I thought it over and said I would have to answer yes. Wondering now what the Temple exam will uncover in December.
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