Notes on the Hidden Wounds of War
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Michael Uhl, Vietnam veteran and author of Vietnam Awakening, set the scene for the second Chapter 00l Veterans for Peace Hidden Cost of War Symposium in Portland June 2nd (Pax Christi Maine was one of seven co-sponsors): Vietnam and the Iraq war are mistakes for which no one is responsible; "Stuff happens," we are told. The permanent war economy grinds on, depriving us of adequate health care and much else. And the battlefield becomes increasingly toxic, from Vietnam defoliation to the Gulf War syndrome, to depleted uranium poisoning of troops and Iraqis and numerous birth deformities, and the introduction of women into the military which has added rape violence to the disorder. What followed was essentially a one-person play: Dr. Edward Tick, whose work over 27 years and writings, especially War and the Soul, is challenging the established notion that PTSD is manageable but not curable and pointed to what we need to do to address a disorder that affects, he insists, everyone who goes to war except amoral psychopaths. (Given an external structure, psychopaths function well in the military, he explains; everyone else is wounded, changed, especially in modern technological warfare.) - Read the complete article here. URL: http://paxchristimaine.org/correspondence/The%20Hidden%20Wounds%20of%20War.pdf
URL: http://paxchristimaine.org/correspondence/The%20Hidden%20Wounds%20of%20War.pdf
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