Ghosts of Iraq war still haunt RI veteran struggling with PTSD

Ghosts of Iraq war still haunt RI veteran struggling with PTSD / Video
10:29 AM EDT on Monday, October 3, 2011
By G. Wayne Miller

Journal Staff Writer

By March 2008, John DiRaimo had been home from Iraq for nearly two years.

Still an active member of the Rhode Island Army National Guard, he was living in a Cranston apartment and periodically visiting the Providence VA Medical Center for treatment of what he now understood was PTSD. He was not fully complying with the terms of his care, and his life had become unbearable.

His nightmares continued and sometimes, in his bedroom in the middle of the night, he saw the apparition of a young Iraqi girl who may have been tortured and killed by Saddam Hussein’s forces, her mutilated body buried in a distant part of what became the U.S. camp at Ar Ramadi, where DiRaimo was based.
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