Horrors of Iraq war shaping a generation.

[Johnboy60]

HADITHA DAM, Iraq — A couple of Marines sleep with the lights on. One takes sleeping pills. Another Marine takes them too, along with antidepressants. Survivor guilt and nightmares are common, they say.

A squad leader who lost 10 of his 11 men, split evenly between killed and seriously wounded in action, has rearranged the beds of the fallen to dispel the ghosts.

When Lima Company returned to base camp here at a towering dam near Haditha, the aftermath of the biggest battle in Iraq so far this year was evident by the voids.

In one barracks, almost half of the 19 bunks belonging to the 1st Platoon were empty — four killed in action and five sent home with severe wounds.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/11730499.htm

 

[neverforsaken]

all wars are this horrible. has anyone seen the movie, "the Lost battalion"? it was about WWI and a battalion that gets seperated from the rest of the army while stuck in a meat grinder situation. in the end, they tell what happened to the main characters later in life. the lead guy commited suiced just a few years after the war was over. having so many of his men killed haunted him to the end.

 

[Sitswithamouse]

It's a sad side to war and similar things happened in Vietnam also and to veterans of WWI & II.
It's not just soldiers that suffer, so to do civillians, there are never just one set of casualties in any war unfortunatley.