Wartorn: 1861-2010
With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers who...
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"Relentlessly grim, gut wrenching documentary on Veterans afflicted by PTSD, from the Civil War right through Iraq. A plea for more care to be given to soldiers' minds, with estimates in the film of numbers as high as 30% of all soldiers being affected by PTSD. Indeed one active army psychiatrist says he doesn't know how any man or woman could see much active battle and not be deeply scarred, unless they were dead inside to begin with. The individual stories are all tremendously affecting, all so different, and yet all the same at the core, from aging WWII veterans openly weeping ..."
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For 50 plus years soldiers hooked on morphine ( new opiate to save lives during field operations) then the more heroic heroin were called "those with soldiers disease" . The government created these people to all but abandon them by leaving them in the wind.
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With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers who...