Salon.com has a section about combat stress, PTSD, and the army’s neglect. They list various personal accounts from Feb. to July of this year. Soldiers who come home but never really return–soldiers that do not receive the proper aftercare that they deserve after such traumatic exposure & experiences.
From their brief archives(I say brief because there are countless cases of PTSD among returning soldiers…this is just a few of them). Excerpts from article written by Mark Benjamin & Michael de Yoanna
On Oc. 30, 2008, Army Pvt. Adam Lieberman attempted to kill himself via prescription drug overdose at Fort Carson, Colo. After swallowing the pills, he painted a suicide note on the wall of his barracks that read, “I FACED THE ENEMY AND LIVED! IT WAS THE DEATH DEALERS THAT TOOK MY LIFE!”
Lieberman survived the attempt. Five days later, his mother, Heidi, arrived in Colorado and was told that her son would be charged with defacing government property for scrawling his suicide note on the barracks wall. Heidi Lieberman told her son’s commanding officer that she would repaint the wall herself to “make this stupidity go away.” The officer took her up on her offer.
Heidi Lieberman painted over the note, documenting both the note and the paint job photographically.
Below: a mock Army document produced by an unknown person in Fort Carson’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team (which is not Lieberman’s unit), apparently to poke fun at troops who seek medical attention. Stacks of the “Hurt Feelings Report” were found near a sheet where soldiers sign out to see a doctor.
