mental breakdown

READER’S EDITORIAL: APPALLING FACTS

 

By Connie Frankowiak, candidate, 50th Congressional District
 
March 14, 2012 (Julian)--The U.S. soldier who had that mental breakdown and killed all those Afghans reveals what happens when men are given long tours of combat duty one after another without enough leave time. The soldier involved already had a serious brain injury and was displaying serious mental problems and should have been in a veterans hospital receiving intensive care instead of a combat zone.

 


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