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Iraq/Afghanistan/American Soldiers/ . . . and PTSD

“You’re going to see more and more of this over the next 10 years,” stated Shad Meshar, Founder of the National Veterans Foundation who’s worked with Vietnam veterans since 1970. Meshar was referring to two recent cases of Iraq veterans who returned home and murdered innocent people. “There’s a percentage that come back, depending on how much trauma and how much killing they’re involved in, they’re going to act out.” For years, close family members and friends have noticed that …