The DOD has tightened the screening process for PTSD and 'personality disorder' so that 'no members who suffer from wartime stress get tagged with having a pre-existing personality disorder, which would leave them ineligible for service disability compensation.' [Biloxi Sun Herald]
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November 18, 2008
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Ken Stepp
Posted by: kenstepp | November 29, 2008 at 02:02 PM
I just got a worm warning from my Norton. First time ever. Is that why folks don't comment here? Hope Uncle Sam's listening. He needs a hug, too.
Posted by: Abby Tucson, AZ | November 22, 2008 at 07:46 PM
Why aren't more folks blogging this topic or the other stories here? Fresh paper!
Active Duty Members and Vets shouldn't have to advocate for their own mental health services. That's our duty to them.
I watched my Dad reconcile Vietnam over Scotch and a lot of tears. Our family was sidelined by his explosive temper, behavior I don't recall before his tour.
Active Duty and Vets shouldn't have to beg fo help from a hostile Military (those guys are probably suffering some PTSD, too). If their wounds were visible, they'd have already been treated.
Today's war causualties could speed development of productive treatment for PTSD just as surgery improves from practice on injured soldiers. It's something crime victim advocates have long called for.
Let's help them to get the help they need, so that our whole society benefits. It's the least we can do.
KISS a Vet and then call your Rep. and demand a return of the Estate Tax to 2000 levels!
Posted by: Abby Tucson, AZ | November 22, 2008 at 07:45 PM
Thankfully, something goes right for Active Duty Members and vets.
If we really want to help them, we could ask ourselves why we've let the Estate Tax dwindle to nothing by 2010. Poorly educated folks like us don't know that the Estate Tax has only been enacted to pay the costs of war: American lives lost or damaged and national treasure.
It's only fair to ask those who's lives and property were protected at that expense to help pay for the ultimate costs. Particularly those who profit during war time.
We paid off every war and ended the Estate Tax each time until Korea. Remember Eisenhower's famous warning? We got used to a standing army and forgot why we were paying.
Then, we let fat cats teach us the Estate Tax is EVIL. It's a double taxation of our wealth. Poor education helped again. We didn't learn that we pass property at the end of life as a PRIVILEGE from government. How do you think the English took back the land in Manhattan that the Dutch had granted to their slaves? They changed the transfer law.
The 2000 share of revenue collected by the Estate Tax was 30%. Today it is less than 3%. Wonder why we can't pay the bills? (Make you a bit mad to think this war profit is slipping through the Treasuries fingers?)
We should restore the Estate Tax to 2000 levels and give all the money to the care of Active Members and Vets. Once it's running well, then we can grip about the cost and whether we should spend so much for the standing force or go to war in the first place.
And the Estate Tax? Well, that would end only one way. Avoid war AMAP.
Posted by: Abby Tucson, AZ | November 22, 2008 at 06:57 PM