Now my husband is a burden?

[unhappycamper]

Now my husband is a burden?
9/9/2007


soldierswife says,

So I was reading the news this afternoon and came across an article on TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury. This is one of the issues that AS deals with. This was one of the reasons we went to Walter Reed in the spring. It is becoming a more reconized and real after effect of the war.

Well, this article had some rather offensive, at lest to me, things to say in regards to soldiers who are suffering from TBI. Here is what it says,

” As more young men and women return from the war, TBI is a growing burden — for them, for the too-few doctors and programs available to treat them, and for taxpayers, who pay for their care and disability if they cannot hold jobs or make their way in the world.”

So my issue on it is this. Our soldiers are now a burden on tax payers when they come home injured? How the hell is that? We sent to them war on tax payer monies. Why not help heal them on tax dollars as well. It’s only right. They did not go to war to get hurt. They went to war to help. And now they are a burden??

I know my husband will never be the same person he was before he left. And I would, and try to, do whatever it took to help heal him. But I would never consider all the things we’ve been through a burden. It’s been a struggle but never a burden.
And as far as “holding a job and making thier way inthe world” goes. The military needs to be more adament on helping those who are having a hard time hleping themselves. They need to do more personal check-ins when soldiers come home. Make sure they are getting help , directing them to where they can get help if they need it, or just be a shoulder to lean on. I know it would have helped AS alot if this were the case for him. But he fell through the cracks when he got home. There needs to be more follow up care if soldiers are not in the enlisted, active military. Because no one knows what goes on each day a soldier is away from the war zone or his brother in arms.

So to the fruitloop who thinks my husband is a burden. To the country who sent him to war I think it is your obligation to help fix him.

Blog at: http://www.soldierlife.com/2007/09/09/now-my-husband-is-a-burden/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. To count those that have been killed is to merely skim the surface of the damage that this war has

done to this country and its people...

:cry:

[sam sarrha]

2. how much will TBI cover up the effects of Depleted Uranium.. till the babies start to come from

from returning vets..

[w8liftinglady]

3. exactly the point of my recent ltte-i was told later to "quit whining"

http://thedailylight.com/articles/2007/09/07/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter2.txt
To the Editor,

The mistreatment and betrayal of our Iraq and Gulf War veterans know no boundaries. I have written about how the VA is no longer reporting cancer cases to registries. Today, I’d like to focus on the effect of depleted uranium on the unborn babies, spouses and fertility of Iraq War and Gulf War veterans. Army Pamphlet 700-XX was written in 1995 as a part of a 12-hour course to warn of the dangers of DU exposure. This was replaced with Training Support Package TA-031-DUAT-001, which condensed this training to 20 minutes and greatly minimized the effects of depleted uranium. The results of this deception are — of the 697,000 troops who served in Gulf War 1 nearly half have filed claims with the VA, with a 40,000 backlog. You can imagine, with more than 1 million troops having rotated through Iraq — as well as private contractors —the medical nightmare that looms.

My focus today, however, is the horrific birth defects that torment the babies of veterans of this war. The circumstances of veterans of Gulf War 1 and Operation Iraqi Freedom are similar, with the exception of the multiple deployments our troops see today. Reporting of health concerns of our troops are non-existent, although more than 26,000 have been evacuated for non-combat illnesses. Children of Gulf War vets have twice the number of chromosomal birth defects as the general population — particularly agenesis of the kidneys and spina bifida. They have three times the number of heart defects. They are born with brain tumors and develop leukemia soon after birth. Gulf War vets are three times as likely to have a baby with Goldenhar’s syndrome, in which only half of the face develops. Male veterans report three times the national average of stillborn and miscarried babies. Depleted uranium settles in the sperm cells and can stay there for years.

An anecdotal study done by a survey of 10,051 ill veterans performed by Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Association found that 51 percent of spouses were ill and 22 percent of children. Since Gulf War Syndrome may take from two to five years to appear due to the nature of exposure to depleted uranium, most of these families are not covered by the VA/DoD health insurance. Since the VA/DoD has made every effort to suppress and cherry-pick its research, we may never know the true extent of the harm of exposure to depleted uranium or the various vaccines that our soldiers are exposed to. Please write your Congress members and request they reinstate research into the health effects of this illegal war.