Ted Rall - Monday February 25, 2008 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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A million are coming back from the war, reduced to shadows of their former selves. They're not crazy. They have post traumatic death disorder. He just isn't the same fun, easy-going dude. Veterans of encounter with US forces report wide-ranging neurological problems: loss of memory, inability to wake up, loss of head. These symptoms can linger for month, years - even eternity. PTDD. Clearly. All too often, victims of PTDD are also victims of discrimination. They have trouble finding and holding jobs. Many suffer the end of their marriages. All it takes is one little bullet fired through their skulls. The swarms of flies are gone. That's good, right? More and more Iraqis are coming home from the war with PTDD. Will they just lie there, rotting away in a vegetative state? Or will they again take their rightful places in Iraqi society. It's up to you.

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