No Legal Objection, Per Se - War on the Rocks

Waiting to see my VA dentist at an Oregon VA I sat waiting next to a national guard soldier. He was angry because the VA rejected his claimed PTSD stressor. His stressor was driving the buss full of national guardsmen to the airport on their way to Iraq. Some were killed and some were injured! My take without prejudice is maybe he did have PTSD and this was his stressor? Different strokes for different folks! Who am I to judge? Let me give a name of a man who I think was a hero. His name was Major John Mize. John was a B 52 pilot whose plane was so damaged in the Christmas Hanoi run he almost crashed.; limping back to Thailand, and a crash landing. In my opinion John died too too young. I am sure it was the stress of flying combat missions.

I knew a big Infantry Buck Seargant who befriended an Afghan boy. Perhaps he was perhaps 10 years old. Every day the boy would talk to the Seargant at the front gate. The first day the unit was replaced, a new soldier guarding the gate saw the boy and mowed him in half with an M60. The Seargant watched this transpire. He beat the ever living shit out of the soldier guarding the gate. He was in therapy for months before he was medically chaptered. He made no improvements. I was quite sad for him. There is a good chance his spirit would never be fixed. It is really heart breaking.