Less Crazy Than Home

The major sees an epidemic on the way | ScrippsNews

"He hears about the people who volunteer to go back to Iraq for second and third tours. He thinks he knows why.

"It's a sign of PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder)," he said during a phone conversation last week from Pennsylvania.

"That's the last place life made sense. Here, they don't fit in. They're not part of anything."

Explains a lot, doesn't it. It's also true that some soldiers who know they are suffering from PTSD are going back so that others won't have to. It's a part of the tradition to take care of your buddy, even at your own risk. Helping our brothers out.

A growing number of articles like these are popping up daily on the Web. Perhaps, eventually, someone will take the hint.