Mental health injuries scar 300,000 U.S. troops

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Check out this news story on MSNBC.com. It’s sickening the ruin of all these lives for a glory war that did nothing but make the world more dangerous. And these injury numbers don’t even take into account the amount of injuries multiple times higher that Iraqi civilians are enduring. There are no words to describe the colossal disaster, or the revulsion, of this absolutely unnecessary war. In human terms, the grief and ruin of lives is inconsolable.

I keep thinking about the young Mexican girl out in Lubbock who in the afternoons goes out to lie down between the gravestones of her two dead brothers. Both were in Iraq; one was killed over there, the other could never recover from the loss of his brother — or what he saw over there — and things got to a point where he killed himself after returning home.

So the sister is the only child left, and Lubbock afternoons with the cemetery grass gently crushing into her face are the only new memories she will ever have with her brothers.

Mental health injuries scar 300,000 U.S. troops

Only half of vets have sought help for depression, post-traumatic stress

Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post-traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates