War changes people. I was a combat infantryman in Vietnam in 1968-69 with the 1st Air Cavalry. The most amazing thing was the realization, many years after the fact, that I was so changed, so different, and so completely oblivious of what life without the ever present, imminent threat of violence, was like. I never felt with any certanty that I would live through any given day. I knew to the core of my being that if I were attacked, threatened, pushed too far, I would fight to the death without compulsion, and I would not enter that fight meekly. I drank too much and slept with a loaded weapon next to my bed. A series of events, and years of counseling, allowed me to finally move on. I ended up founding a Veteran's counseling center and counseled other vets for years. Whatever the military says about trying to help vets with their issues, not labeling them in a negative way, and being more sensitive to the problems caused by their service, is most likely, and almost certainly, total bullshit. The military is all about macho and war and killing. Anyone who has a problem with that, or as a result of that, is weak. Sin Loi. Too Bad. Tough Shit. Of course not everyone in the military has that attitude. Things are probably better now than when I returned from Vietnam. But probably not all that much better. The best way to prevent our young men and women from getting wacked out by war is to stop having wars. It is now, and always has been, easier for our leaders to send young men off to fight and kill and die rather then to sit down with other leaders and try and solve problems. There is no money in that, and when you get right down to it, war is all about money, power, and resources, Not solving problems. Don't mean nothin'.