For Ky. war hero, wounds are invisible

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"Spc. Ashley Pullen wasn’t thinking about the dozens of Iraqi insurgents who had just ambushed the convoy. Or their piles of guns and grenades or the bullets ripping through the air around her.

Her bloody comrade lay on the road south of Baghdad, and she had to help the gravely wounded soldier — fast.

So she hustled as quickly as her short legs would carry her, ignoring the heat, the ferocious battle and her heavy gear.

She ran 100, 200, 300 feet — the length of a football field."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16006669/

This is sad. A lot of our folks are coming home with this problem. Here in Utah, where I live, a lot of people here don't think PTSD is real. Since I have it too, it bugs the heck out of me when they tell me that. The implication is that you're faking it for whatever reason. They need to live with PTSD for a couple years, then we can talk about how real it is.

I feel for our troops coming home, many of whom will deal with the same kind of ignorance I see here. I didn't get my PTSD from being in the military, but I live with it every day and it isn't easy. How many of these guys coming home are living with the same thing, and getting screwed over by the VA (and the public at large) at the same time?