Moron

Do you need proof that IVAW is chocked full of poseurs and fakers? No better example exists than Jeremy Stainthorp Berggren (WTF kind of name is Stainthorp anyway? What kind of pretentious set of parents would saddle their spawn with that moniker?) But, anyway, I wrote about the doofus back in March when he told us that you don’t have to deploy to suffer from PTSD because he got PTSD from his dreams while his unit was deployed to Iraq and he stayed in the States.

I will not get too much into the guilt and shame that goes through a marine’s, or probably any servicemember’s, heart and head in a situation like this, but it is at a disturbing level to be stuck stateside while your friends, your peers, and unit are gone. Throughout my unit’s deployment I had a difficult time sleeping, had nightmares about what they were doing, but this made me feel more alienated so I never talked about it and just bid my time and got out as soon as my contract allowed me to.

The Veterans Affairs Department defines PTSD like his;

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something horrible and scary that you see or that happens to you. During this type of event, you think that your life or others’ lives are in danger. You may feel afraid or feel that you have no control over what is happening.

The DVA website goes on to give examples of what might cause PTSD;

* Combat or military exposure
* Child sexual or physical abuse
* Terrorist attacks
* Sexual or physical assault
* Serious accidents, such as a car wreck.
* Natural disasters, such as a fire, tornado, hurricane, flood, or earthquake.

So you actually have to be present at an event in order to suffer from PTSD. Not like Matthis who claims he heard horrible stories, or Stained-drawers who had bad dreams.

Well, I mention it today because Stained-drawers has what could be loosely described as a poem at the IVAW website about how tough his life is because of his PTSD (http://www.ivaw.org/membersspeak/please-try-something-different-ptsd). Now, I’m no medical expert but HEY, FUCKWAD, YOU DON’T HAVE PTSD! Nothing degrades the treatment of REAL PTSD victims like all of these half-witted pretenders.

To me this new type of Stolen Valor is worse than wearing medals they didn’t earn, or calling themselves Iraq veterans when they haven’t deployed out of NY State. There ought to be a specialist at every DVA facility whose only job is to throat-punch these peawits. Hell, i’d do it on a volunteer basis.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veteran Health Care