There will be veterans in the park who carry with them physical and emotional wounds of great magnitude, who remain crippled by the dead hand of war, who never sleep well, who struggle in the black pit of depression and with post-traumatic stress disorder, and who will bear the cross that war inflicted upon them until the end of their days. They will have surmounted tremendous psychic and physical pain to make it to Lafayette Park, to defy what they know must be defied. And if they can walk their trail of tears to the White House so can you. They are our wounded healers, our disregarded prophets.-http://bit.ly/eZ701a
This is an unflinching and gritty article on the human cost of war-We must hold our civilian and military leadership accountable for the invisible wounds of war that are inflicted upon all who are forever changed by the experience. of war. That includes pointing out to them their galling hypocrisy when they present the tokenism of “Welcome Home” while at the same time proposing cutting 6.2B dollars out of the VA budget/
