Question by US Army's Twitter account asking people how their time in the military affected them, receives an outpouring of grief
A soldier with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment participates in a"Flags In" event May 23, 2019 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The cemetery hosted the annual event to adorn all cemetery graves with US flags in advance of Memorial Da
"OEF, OIF ptsd with chronic pain," one Twitter user wrote, using the US military's acronyms for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the abbreviation for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. "The 'Combat Cocktail': PTSD, severe depression, anxiety. Isolation. Suicide attempts. Never ending rage. It cost me my relationship with my eldest son and my grandson. It cost some of my men so much more," another Twitter user wrote.Not all the replies were about the toll taken by combat.
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