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April 28, 2008

PTSD can be with you for a lifetime

A look at a veteran of the Korean war and the struggles he still faces fifty years later. A new awareness of PTSD has spurred veterans from other wars - WW2, Korea and Vietnam - to file for help with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

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Vet Addminstration.......all of them.....the vets coming home are no better than the Nam Vets but get MORE.....so you still talk from the Nam Vets to give to others.......why

wife of a Nam Vet who just crys when he sees what all the vets coming home now get and he got spit on and he was NOT DRAFTED..........call me and tell me
Karen Williams
915 821 6795
kswluvfam@aol.com

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