Katie Couric's Notebook: Road To Recovery

Katie Couric's Notebook: Road To Recovery

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August 7, 2008, 4:29 PM
Katie Couric's Notebook: Road To Recovery
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Notebook: Road To Recovery
At 23, Nancy Kules was a newlywed with her whole life ahead of her. On November 27, 2005, life changed.

The phone rang, and words came flying at her. IED. Leg. Arm. Coma.

She describes not knowing what to do with all that information, but the bottom line was that her husband Ryan was badly injured in Iraq.

The story gets repeated far too many times. Nearly 33,000 men and women have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands more suffer from invisible wounds like PTSD.

The wounded warrior needs help to heal, but so do caregivers like Nancy.

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Nice little speech but 1.6 minutes is all she came up with? Granted I'm not sure how this "note book" usually is but I'm thinking back on some of the reports that have come out on PTSD and wondering where the media has been on all of this. Sure they do a snip it here and there, but where are the hour long reports? Where are the series stations like PTSD used to do? This is such a huge issue that you'd think they would spend a hell of a lot more time on it as a public service issue alone but they haven't. It is not political. It is not about pro-war or pro-defense but it is about pro-those-we-send.

I think they deserve a lot more time and their families as well.