Monday, March 4, 2013  The Hidden Agony  As shown in a recent 60
Minutes segment, the casualties of our pointless foreign wars go
on, mostly unreported, long after all the troops come home. 
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a lingering killer that
prolongs the awful experiences of wartime on our warfighters
long after they come home.  The agony is also inflicted on the
families and friends of those who have served in our military,
sometimes killing them, as well.  There's only minimal coverage
of this hidden agony.  The death tolls from PTSD aren't included
in the lists of those killed in our wars, but our wars surely
caused those fatalities every bit as much as AK-47 bullets,
IEDs, and RPGs caused combat deaths.  According to one source, a
US military veteran dies by suicide every 65 minutes on
average!  And the deaths are only part of the story.  The
anguish and economic losses wrought by PTSD's effects on all of
us are part of the hidden price tag of our foreign excursions. 
It's time we faced up t