A group of military wives whose husbands returned from combat with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) decided that if they were going to draw attention to the need for more and better help for their husbands, they were going to have to get creative.
And so they got naked. Well, nude is more like it. They emblazoned messages across their backs in the hopes that someone would finally pay attention to their pleas for help. Their goal is to have people talking about PTSD, to help remove the stigma, because ignoring it is causing too many deaths of our brave service members.
What do you think of their efforts? Will this tactic work?
I live in Iowa City, Iowa. There is a huge fancy VA center here. A wealthy renovated powerful VA center, but since my return from Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom, that F**king place has never been able to help me at all. I served with great distinction, numerous awards etc, but whrn I returned, my country didnt care, as a LPN it took 6 months to get a job, and the love of my life, an RN of psych at that very same VA, was cheating on me the whole time with a murderer, woman batterer, beater, stalker, thief, who… Read more »