Do We Care?

Over the past couple days, I’ve been listening to a story on NPR about soldiers coming home from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Make no mistake, conditions are improving where they were when the Walter Reed scandal broke. However, there are still problems. The Army is often hesitant to classify soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which raises questions of cost-cutting or public relations.

Of coruse, the Army had also ordered Veterans’ Affairs representatives not to help soldiers complete disability paperwork. Read the rest of this entry »