'Surge Home' Overwhelms VA Clinics -- Military.comWASHINGTON -- When he got home from war, Rey Leal's biggest problem was that he couldn't sleep as he tried to free himself of the images of combat in Iraq.
"My thing was turning off that movie in my head," says Mr. Leal, a former marine and now a student at a college in south Texas. Ultimately, he sought mental-health assistance at a Veterans Affairs clinic in the Rio Grande Valley. But he found navigating the bureaucratic tangle a strain: He waited a month or more for appointments with the sole psychologist there.
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My Comment: The key sentence in this report is the following ....
.... Among the roughly 2 million people who have deployed, there are some 300,000 cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and thousands more of traumatic brain injury, according to a RAND report last year ....
For many families, this is one of the many legacies of war that many of them will be carrying with them for the rest of their lives. I know that it is not going to be easy .... my father was a combat vet from the Second World War (Russian Front) .... but patience and understanding are the two things that we must stick into our heads when those tough days are upon us.
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