Returning vets face 'new normal'

Depending on the people in your group of friends, a story like this can leave you scratching your head.

Returning vets face 'new normal' of invisible wounds, isolation, joblessness

April 15, 2012
By Halle Stockton
PublicSource

Coming Home PA is a project spearheaded by PublicSource, a local nonprofit investigative news group, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other local media partners.

Loaded assault rifle at the ready and eyes alert, the soldier detected only dry branches snapping under his combat boots as he patrolled the woods.

Everything else was quiet and clear, until the police showed up.

Residents of his South Hills neighborhood had been frightened by an armed man in camouflage marching through the trees near their homes in February.

The officers escorted the 31-year-old former Marine back to his mother's home.

"I was trying my hardest to feel Iraq, to relive the power of walking through with a weapon and purpose," said the soldier, who asked not to be named. "Since I got home, I feel powerless."
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I spend most of my time with people talking about their kids in the military and all the news there is about our veterans. The rest of the time I am with people talking about their own lives. Seems to me that unless the media talks about them more, nothing will really change.