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PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Purpose Taken Somewhere Distant?

By Jim Whitt In response to my December 14 issue entitled Lessons on PURPOSE from our armed forces, I received this email from my friend Fred Vocasek: Jim, My step-son served two tours in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne.  After hearing about the troop withdrawals earlier this month, he expressed concern about all of the young, returning troops.  He said they were coming back “all amped up” and had to adapt immediately to civilian life. It would be a dangerous time for them.  He was 29 and 30 when he returned from his two tours.  He watched the 19 and… Read More

January 15th, 2012 at 9:57pm

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