Real World looks at real cost to warriors

Why is it that MTV seems to be doing the best job of showing the real cost of combat on our soldiers? How is it that this music station is doing the bulk of the heavy reporting when the "news" stations offer basically nothing? They are covering PTSD and TBI, but CNN and MSNBC have pretty much ignored it except for a few reports here and there but FOX has totally ignored it. Some of the other national stations, CBS, NBC and ABC have done some work on these two signature wounds but it seems as if I'm posting a lot more about what MTV is doing. They are putting the "real news" stations to shame and it's very telling of the audiences they reach. Most of the MTV viewers are deeply involved in what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as paying attention to what happens to our warriors when they come home. The rest of the nation is detached from all of it focusing on their own problems as if Iraq and Afghanistan are not worthy of their attention. Pretty appalling. I wish the others would finally wake up and notice that the men and women serving, paying the price have a great deal to do with the way this nation will be when they come of age and hold power in decision making. After all, that's exactly what happened after every war. The warriors kept serving but within the war rooms of politics instead of battlefields of foreign lands.

We have this generation falling apart. What Americans must understand is that as this generation of warriors falls down, they take with them the future of the next generation just as the Vietnam veterans came home and suffered in silence and their children carried the burden their fathers passed onto them.

Congratulations MTV for putting the spotlight once again on the plight of our troops and our veterans.