Ill. Hospital Helps War Veterans Cope

[deadparrot]

HINES, Ill. - Josh Dobbelstein drives as close to the middle of the road as he can. Over on the side, in a plastic bag or stuffed in the carcass of a dead dog, that's where he knows the enemy intent on killing him hides bombs.

Just the other day he dove to the floor of a vehicle he was riding in when he mistook the sound of a trucker hitting his brakes for a machine gun.

They are the kinds of precautions that keep soldiers at war alive. But Dobbelstein left Iraq more than 16 months ago, and for him they are vestiges of a war he can't seem to shake.

He's trying, though. The 23-year-old is getting help from a clinic at Hines VA Hospital just outside Chicago set up to help veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/veterans_traumatic_stress

[DanCa]

1. I love my big blue state

The conservative mentality would just be too let this poor guy suffer. Typical rethugs they want war but they don't want to think of the consequences or fight in it themselves.