Vietnam vet suffers PTSD, murders wife

While watching this last night I was taken back to the time when PTSD was not talked about. It was something families felt they had to keep secret.

The common understanding is that PTSD was not acknowledged until many years after psychiatrists had already termed the condition and that was in the 70's. By 1978 there was a report commissioned by the Disabled American Veterans, stated that there were 500,000 Vietnam veterans with PTSD.

The DAV already set up Veterans Centers to help combat veterans heal by offering support and knowledge. That is how long this has all be going on but as you can see from reports coming out on this generation of veterans, few lessons have been learned.

Tracking reports across the country makes me furious because this pamphlet hangs on the wall behind my computer to remind me of just how lousy of a job we're doing and none of what we see happening to our veterans should be excused. They knew too much 40 years ago to be so far behind.

Vietnam vet suffers PTSD, murders wife
Erin Burnett Out Front
Added on March 21, 2012
CNN's Miguel Marquez talks to veteran Gary Hulsey, a Pacific, Washington City Council member who killed his wife in 1978.