PTSD, Puppies and Misplaced Values - We're Having the Wrong Conversation

June 13, 2008
PTSD, Puppies and Misplaced Values - We're Having the Wrong Conversation, America
Now that media coverage of SSgt. Travis Twiggs -- the five times-deployed Marine and gen-u-ine American hero who killed himself recently after a protracted and unsuccessful fight with PTSD -- has safely faded from view, America can go back to talking about what really interests it like the Marine tossing the puppy off the cliff in Hawaii. Here's a great quotable quote from Kathie Costos, a senior chaplain with the International Federation of Chaplains and a longtime, tireless advocate for veterans with PTSD, both personally and professionally on her blog, WoundedTimes, linked here. After noting that a mention of the news update on "that jerk" with the puppy toss sent blog traffic sky-high, Costos said, most quotably -- "I hate the fact a puppy toss gets more attention than a Marine killing himself because the DOD and the VA won't do what they are supposed to do." Amen, sistah. (I don't believe that she's talking about the Twiggs case there, specifically, but just in general.)
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misplaced-values---were-having-the-wrong-conversation.html