Viet Nam all over again. This experience will haunt some returning soldiers in ways that will not manifest themselves for YEARS to come...
Read the whole article. The DU mandatory "4 paragraph rule" doesn't convey the impact of the entire piece.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=414Cpl. Travis Friedrichsen, Holly's husband, was sitting in bed a few days after his return when he began to shake uncontrollably for nearly 15 minutes, an involuntary response to the memory of a hidden bomb that detonated only a few feet from him in Iraq.
Once an easygoing son of Iowa, Friedrichsen, 21, now has trouble controlling his temper, with the stress inside him sometimes exploding into tirades that he says have gone on for an entire weekend.
"It's hard that he has changed," said Holly, 19. "The guy I fell in love with is completely different now."
The men have been altered by the experience of war. The hair-trigger reactions and emotional distance that helped them survive in a place of constant and unpredictable peril often do not recede easily or quickly.