Wounded Times: Medal of Honor Recipients Speak Out on PTSD

These men were awarded the highest honor for saving lives and they are still doing it. They are still saving lives by doing this!

Medal of Honor Recipients Speak Out
By Lina Bereskova
Epoch Times Staff
To reduce rising suicide rates in the military, American Medal of Honor recipients will launch the “Medal of Honor—Speak Out!” campaign to encourage soldiers to get help for post-traumatic stress (PTS). The heroes, who survived horrific experiences, recorded video messages.

Soldiers who suffer from PTS often do not seek help. A fear of looking weak or of hurting their military career held back 65 and 50 percent respectively from asking for help, according to the campaign.

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Medal of Honor Recipients Speak Out About PTS

The 28 participating Medal of Honor recipients are each featured in a short video clip personally urging service members to seek help through resources and services that were not available when they returned from war. For example, Jon Cavaiani tells troops he wishes the resources were available to him when he returned from the Vietnam War, because “it would have alleviated the problems I had later. The tools and resources to help are there. Make use of them. I did, much later, and it continues to help me stay strong.”

Cavaiani, a Special Forces staff sergeant, was held by the North Vietnamese as a prisoner of war for two years. He was wounded in the back and severely burned after his small contingent of American soldiers was attacked by an overwhelming enemy force in the spring of 1971.
Medal of Honor Speak Out on PTSD

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Medal of Honor Recipients Speak Out on PTSD

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