Soldier's War Didn't End After Coming Home

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ChannelCincinnati.com
updated 12:10 p.m. ET, Wed., July. 23, 2008

CINCINNATI - A soldier can leave the battlefield, but the battlefield doesn't always leave a soldier. There's been a dramatic increase in the number of Iraqi veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a disease that can wreck families and ruin lives if left untreated. The Cincinnati Veterans Administration Hospital is one of the nations leading treatment centers for post-traumatic stress disorder, and it has had to mobilize unlike ever before to care for the flood of service men and women, bringing the war home with them. Jason Marines name seemed to have him destined for a life in the military.

Marine joined the Army right out of high school he was part of that first violent surge into Iraq in 2003.

The fight was horrific, you know, I wouldn't want to wish it on my worst enemy," he said.
Wherever he went, death was never far. Marine was a sniper. He said he still remembers the faces of family members who came for the bodies of Iraqi soldiers.

"Watching kids go through that stuff is not a very good thing," he said.

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