Iraq imagery reopens wounds of Vietnam

[Monkeyman]

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID-/20061015/NEWS01/61050306/1002

Television images of Americans fighting-and dying-in Iraq are traumatizing Vietnam veterans all over again.

According to the VA , there's been a 36 percent increase in number of Vietnam vets seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder since 2003.

Evan though they're very patriotic guys, many are angry that we're even in Iraq"said Dr. Michael Mason of the Center for Mental Health.

I can tell you this is very true guys from my old unit are pissed as hell we attacked Iraq on lies.We feel like its Nam all over again. If we could only get our brother vets to feel the same way. It would be a blow out for Democrats.

[liberal N proud]

1. That is the reason the Pentagon has been so carefully that the corporate

media does not show too many images and we can't see the dead coming home. They know the images hurt their efforts in Vietnam and they are blocking the truth to keep the people from seeing the horrors of war and making up their own minds.

[TahitiNut]

2. There're fewer than a million of us left.

:patriot: :cry:

[saigon68]

6. And angrier than ever at the continuing Iraq-Nam Debacle

[bigtree]

3. Center for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut

By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war.

House and Senate versions of the 2007 Defense appropriation bill contain $7 million for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center — half of what the center received last fiscal year.

"I find it basically unpardonable that Congress is not going to provide funds to take care of our soldiers and sailors who put their lives on the line for their country," says Martin Foil, a member of the center's board of directors. "It blows my imagination."

The Brain Injury Center, devoted to treating and understanding war-related brain injuries, has received more money each year of the war — from $6.5 million in fiscal 2001 to $14 million last year. Spokespersons for the appropriations committees in both chambers say cuts were due to a tight budget this year.

"Honestly, they would have loved to have funded it, but there were just so many priorities," says Jenny Manley, spokeswoman for the Senate Appropriations Committee.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-08-brain-center_x.htm


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[madokie]

4. I'm not seeking help as I should because the kids today need it more

than me. And I am also in the group that is pissed about this. No I think its I'm madder'ern hell

[Monkeyman]

5. same same Brother