I am a military wife of over four years now, my husband and I are from Utah. My husband has been to Iraq and fought for this country and the people in it. He has lost almost everything because of it, including almost losing his family. Our family if you will excuse the expression has been through hell and back so my husband can protect our freedom and the only thing he has to show for it is a broken back and a constant battle. When he came home from Iraq he was a stranger, I had never met that man before. He woke up night after after covered in sweat scared to death and battled extreme depression which only now about two years later he will start to talk about.
He faced horrible unspeakable things and he battles never-ending guilt and rage.
He came home with a violent temper towards myself and everyone else and has been through many types of therapy.
He is currently in the process of being medically discharged because of his back.
He is now fighting with the army to get PTSD rightfully put into his med-board packet. All he is getting is the run-around. They lie and cheat so that they wont have to give him the compensation he deserves for giving everything to them. They tell him "although he has all the symptoms they wont diagnose it as P.T.S.D because he has not been hospitalized for
it." So they weasel their way out of it by saying its a disorder non otherwise specified.
There are many other details too numerous to put in a single letter, but if you want a real life story this is it! This is real life, this is what the army does to the brave soldiers who fight and die (on the inside and out) This is truth and it's in my opinion even more sad than the men who die overseas because at least they die with honor!!!! My Husband has nothing to look forward to but, a permanent handicap and mental scar. This is the reason so many soldiers resort to suicide, what can they do when nobody will give them the help they need. Please excuse me if anything sounds harsh but, I am outraged and
everyone else should be too. The media is our last hope, please listen to the soldiers and
families that are not going through deployment that are screaming to be heard.
Brittany Fisher
Fort Campbell, Ky.
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