Another Good Reason to End This Senseless War
QuestionGirl September 29th, 2007 - 8:41 pmHe was one of America’s first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
Today, he can’t keep a job, pay his bills, or chase thoughts of suicide from his tortured brain. In a few weeks, he may lose his house, too.
Gamal Awad, the American son of a Sudanese immigrant, exemplifies an emerging group of war veterans: the economic casualties.
More than in past wars, many wounded troops are coming home alive from the Middle East. That’s a triumph for military medicine. But they often return hobbled by prolonged physical and mental injuries from homemade bombs and the unremitting anxiety of fighting a hidden enemy along blurred battle lines. Treatment, recovery and retraining often can’t be assured quickly or cheaply.
These troops are just starting to seek help in large numbers, more than 185,000 so far. But the cost of their benefits is already testing resources set aside by government and threatening the future of these wounded veterans for decades to come, say economists and veterans’ groups.
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December 8th, 2007 at 1:42 am
My name is Gary Walker I’m a CWO4 in the US Marines and I’m the man who told on former Maj Awad to get him kicked out of the Marine Corps! He has lied to you all and any person who read that story and believed it! He does NOT have PTSD and all the crap he said about his problems are made up! I worked around him I KNOW what was going on and I know all about the trust he violated when he began sleeping with the young female troops that worked for him!
He does NOT deserve your sympathy and ALL this he brought on him self. If he has PTSD I have wings and can fly! I speak the truth and can back up everything I say. He might have some piece of paper that says he has PTSD but he is an outstanding actor and liar! Don’t feel sorry for him. Instead feel sorry for the others who DO have PTSD and are struggling each and every day. They are deserving of your prayers NOT this guy!
Gary Walker
CWO4 USMC
December 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Are you a doctor? How can you presume to know what’s going on in someone else’s head? You may be right, you may be wrong. My prayers are with all the guys who come home and suffer in any way. Physically, mentally, financially. You’re the guy that “told” on him? Told what?