Columbia woman implores judge to keep her husband committed

A friend of ours is in a halfway house because of PTSD. We just got word he may never be able to go home. He came home from Vietnam with PTSD but was able to bury it for years. A secondary stressor sent him over the edge so fast his family couldn't understand what just hit all of them.
After WWII veterans with PTSD (not called PTSD back then) were sent to live on farms because they had shell shock. We need to face the fact that while the vast majority of PTSD wounded vetearns are not violent, some are.

Columbia woman implores judge to keep her husband committed
Baltimore Sun - United States
Octogenarian attacked his wife with a hammer last year
By Don Markus don.markus@baltsun.com
February 2, 2009

Cedric Payne's visits to the state mental hospital where his father, Calvin, was involuntarily committed after beating his wife with a hammer last May follow a similar pattern: the elder Payne experiencing fleeting moments of focus followed by long periods of confusion.

As a result, Cedric, the only child of the Columbia couple, said that his 84-year-old father is where he should be, but that his 81-year-old mother, Alma, still fears for her life.

"She thinks that if he can get out, he'll come back and complete the job," Cedric Payne said in a telephone interview last week.

Alma Payne was attacked May 5 by her husband of 64 years in their Columbia home. Calvin Payne was charged with attempted murder and assault. After being sent to the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in Jessup, Calvin Payne was moved in October to Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville.
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