Our responsibilities as citizens

We, as citizens, have allowed Bush, Obama, and now Trump to send our young men and women into harm's way.  They went willingly and were proud to serve.  Now for 14 years they have been coming home broken and they join the ranks of the Vietnam vets that are broken.  And we do not take care of these broken men and women.  They are our responsibility.  We sent them.  We were the ones who broke them.  We should be ashamed of not taking care of them.  I have even been told no we don't owe them anything.  They volunteered.  That kind of thinking is so wrong.  Yes, they did volunteer.  We asked and they said yes.  So yes we are responsible for them for the rest of their lives and it makes me ashamed of my country for not doing it's job when they did theirs so well.  PTSD is a very real illness.  It is so real, that those with that actually relive the battles in their own mind over and over again.  They can't get away from those battles.  I grew up with a WW2 vet for a father.  I lived the life of a child of a parent with PTSD.  My dad drank.  My friend's father would sleep very little and would leave in the middle of the night and just drive all night.  Another friend's father was a drunk all his life.  My dad finally shook the drinking when I was around 10.  My husband was a combat vet as well and yes he had PTSD.  He never stopped fighting.  He slept with a gun under his pillow.  He was compulsive about locking the doors and making sure the curtains were tightly closed at night.  And he kept a shotgun near.  And both men suffered Malaria.  I have watched both when the fever came back on them.  They would be delerious, they would shake so bad, their teeth would chatter.  And there was nothing being done for them.  Dad carried quinine pills until they started regulating them, then the doctors wouldn't give them to him.  So I can tell you that PTSD is a very real illness and for this country to ignore our vets and do nothing is shameful.