Woman Reservist With PTSD Has To Go Back To Iraq For Round II...

[leftchick]

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"What was over there I try to leave over there, because it's something you don't sit around and talk about at the dinner table, in your leisure time, body parts, babies getting shot," said Tonya Conway, US Army Reservist.

In less than 2 weeks, Tonya will leave her mother's home in Harrisburg to return to Iraq.

She's been called back to duty even though she now suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.

She says she can't sleep and when she does she has nightmares and flashbacks.

Tonya's nerves were also affected by the war. Something as simple as a car backfiring, for her, can be traumatic.

http://fox43.trb.com/news/wpmt-51006-2ndcallofduty,0,1953385.story?coll=wpmt-news-1

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[acmavm]

1. And some people say we have enough warm bodies in the military.

They are so desperate they'll take anyone and once they have 'em, they won't let 'em go.

Yes, when the shit with Iran hits the fan and our troops start dying there will be a draft. Someone should start making a list of the kids of Senators and Congressmen, as well as bush** administration personnel. They should be the first drafted. Sorry if they don't support the wars, their damn parents do. And being who they are, they are the ones who (in more ways than one) profit from them.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Shades of General Patton...

Wonder if Rummy has pearl handled 45s on his hip...

[w8liftinglady]

3. they did that to my son,too

he was diagnosed with ptsd after his first deployment.they sent him back after about 6 months of treatment.that's when he was hurt(the second time).I always wonder if ,subconsciously,he wasn't trying to get hurt to escape that hell.

[liberal N proud]

4. And when they are done with them they will dump them on the street

[Cassandra]

5. Some appropriate song lyrics; Forgotten Man

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/forgotten.html#

The original staging of this was a clear indictment of those who treated the soldiers coming back from WWI so poorly. Gold Diggers of 1933 is now out on DVD and on cable sometimes. Watch it if you get a chance (I'm a Busby Berkeley fan).

"I don't know if he deserves a bit of sympathy,
Forget your sympathy, that's all right with me.
I was satisfied to drift along from day to day,
Till they came and took my man away.

Remember my forgotten man,
You put a rifle in his hand;
You sent him far away,
You shouted, "Hip, hooray!"
But look at him today!

Remember my forgotten man,
You had him cultivate the land;
He walked behind the plow,
The sweat fell from his brow,
But look at him right now!

And once, he used to love me,
I was happy then;
He used to take care of me,
Won't you bring him back again?
'Cause ever since the world began,
A woman's got to have a man;
Forgetting him, you see,
Means you're forgetting me
Like my forgotten man."

[Thtwudbeme]

6. Thanks for the link and the photo; I want to add it to the Young

Republican Posters at the college...asking why one of those able bodied healthy young men doesn't take her place?

Or the place of some of the older people?

[Mnemosyne]

7. My daughter's boyfriend was in a coma for 3 months, severe head trauma

before he was sent to Iraq. He came out of the coma with seizures for life. They sent him to Iraq for two months after the coma and had to send him home.

Now he has asked for a discharge and they refuse and give him 18 months to "recover" and then back to Iraq.

This is heinous. How can a soldier fight if stress sets off seizures?!!

My daughter suffers from severe PTSD and I cannot imagine someone sending her into a battlefield. My heart goes out to Tonya.

Fucking bastards! :grr: