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Cindy McCain: Vietnam vets with PTSD were 18-year-olds who didn’t know what they were doing.
thinkprogress.org - Cindy McCain: Vietnam vets with PTSD were 18-year-olds who didn’t know what they were doing.
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Are you kidding me!? PTSD can happen to any soilder regardless of rank, training or upbringing.
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My mom is a retireds psyc nurse who worked at the VA for many many years- she even ran a special PTSD workshop that i attended with her sometimes- this opinion is a insult to the military and every solider who has suffered from PTSD!!!!
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So she's saying she doesn't agree with a draft, right?
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What I believe she is saying is this: He was a pilot so he had POW training as part of his survival training. For those of you who don't know anything about the military that's where they drop you in the middle of nowhere with instructors that show you how to survive in the "jungle". They also "capture" you and treat you like you would have been treated in a real POW camp. Back then they were most likely allowed to hit the "prisoner" and use all sorts of interrogation techniques. Yes every soldier can suffer from PTSD, but what I think she was trying to say is that those who were drafted, with no military background or knowledge and very little training, were the MOST effected by everything that happened. The average age of men drafted then was 18-21 years old, so I think she gave a general age in the interview. By the way it's interesting how the rest of the article wasn't posted. I guess I will need to read the entire thing to see if she went into further detail. Oh and she never implied that she didn't agree with a draft.
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No, adulation... I think she's just saying that no one gives a damn if the anti-American boys who don't volunteer & end up drafted develop PTSD. It's what they deserve for not signing up first. :-/ We would almost have to institute a draft to keep up the troop numbers needed for her husband's "100 years in Iraq" plan.
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I'm sorry, but people who suffer atrocious abuse and aren't affected by it, nor seek professional help to see what the damage is, must be a little throwed off.
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Re: By the way it's interesting how the rest of the article wasn't posted. I guess I will need to read the entire thing to see if she went into further detail. Oh and she never implied that she didn't agree with a draft.
Hmm.. you're right. I was trying to mislead. OR... I can't post the whole damned thing in the small amount of space given which is why CM includes the "view full article" feature.
Here is a direct link if you're interested in knowing what her most regrettable outfit is:
http://www.marieclaire.com/print-this/world/news/cindy-mccain-interview-election
Oooh... I especially like the part where Cindy says her husbands never lost his temper with her.
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Post Trauma Stress is no different from any other disease or induced affliction in that it depends on what you are totally as a person beforehand. If someone had no teaching of what loyalty to America meant, and they had no religion, or they had a religion that was against warfare-plus had DNA weaknesses to all kinds of germs and disease, and they went through a POW situation, they likely wouldn't be able to stand up to it very well as mentally and emotionally they might have no strength built up or reasoning to help them get through the ordeal. Just praying might help, but if there were alot of conflict and guilt, it wouldn't help and they likely would end up with PTSS due to much mental conflict and inability to withstand torture with a deep-rooted American ideal supporting them. Of course, if a person's physical being is not strong in it's immune or healing systems, they also would be weakened by disease, and their brain and thinking abilities which effect emotions would also be influenced. We are total beings, so how we survive any situation depends upon how we have developed beforehand.
Senator McCain has always said that he, like anyone else, has matured during his life-any person 40+ will tell you younger ones that we all are able to make better decisions usually if we structure our life around developing into useful, teachable and able to teach others, persons-so that our personalities temper if hot-headed when young, or, develop better educationally if we learn that it is helpful to moving forward and attaining one's goals in life. I liked Mrs. McCain's explanation of why she started working to help others-She saw a situation she had support and monies to help-and then she started calling and organizing the help to be accomplished-She is an inspiration for all persons, especially ones that think they are hopelessly stuck with drug dependencies. I like that she accepted their Daughter when she could have walked away from Mother Theresa-now she is helping others adopt Children too.
She has used many opportunities not only to develop as a Human, but to develop help for others to do the same.
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I agree with momanana2008....There is a difference between someone that goes into the military knowing that someday he may be asked to kill or be killed for his country, and those that are forced into it. Many stay away from the military because of that. And that is fine...My father and husband (my biological father served 3 tours in Vet)all served this great country during war time...all by choice...all the draft made was a mess...
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