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Victor_c3

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7. Sadly similar issues are impacting the more recent vets a their children
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 02:22 PM
Mar 2016

From Iraq and Afghanistan. It wasn't agent orange, but burn pits burned by anything and everything from human wastes, bodies, chemicals like feet and bug spray, etc.

It's a crime that the government is at times so slow to recognize these issues and then to adequately address them.

The problems returning vets have don't end with the veteran themselves. Many issues, including psychiatric, get passed right along to their families and children. I get care and I'm compensated for my PTSD, but my children and family suffers as much as I do and they get next to nothing. What sort of long term impacts will my multiple suicide attempts, anger outbursts, night terrors and screaming, and frequent extensive psychiatric hospitalization a have on them? How will my children's long term psychiatric health be impacted by their crazy dad? How traumatized do you think my wife is after I attempted suicide right on front of her?

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