Please Hire Our Heroes Even If They’re a Little Muddled
Aug 26 2008 | Comments 3
A new government website has been launched to educate the public about hiring veterans who have PTSD or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). America’s Heroes at Work is a Dept. of Labor project that has two prominent links of its home page: “Learn How to Help Employees with TBI/PTSD Succeed,” and “Learn How to Hire a Veteran.” I like the FAQs page, and the fact sheet that tries to separate myth from fact regarding PTSD, including the notion that people with PTSD are always violent and that PTSD is a character weakness.
I don’t claim to have enough expertise to understand whether this website hits all the right marks or is sufficiently thorough. But I have to think it’s a good start.
liz | 10:23 AM | Uncategorized
This sickens me.
My father went into WW II at the tail end of the war. He was stationed in Germany and liberated a camp. Not an easy thing for an 18 year old boy who had never been out of Brooklyn in his whole entire life. And was Jewish.
When he came back home, he attended Rutgers with the GI Bill.
Now when he watches the evening news he gets upset with our boys and girls coming home. Not the ones in boxes- (that upsets him but that is a different story) but the ones coming home broken and in pieces. He is mad because no one seems to be helping them once they get out of hospitals. He is mad because of the suicide rate is so high among them. He is mad because they and those who served in Vietnam don’t get parades like he did, or the pride that people had in him for serving.
What happened since my dad’s generation, and my generation that we don’t revere those who put their lives on the line for us so we can help others live in a world in peace and democracy?
Looks like it’s the government shirking it’s duty, yet again, to take care of its own. They willingly enlisted and in return got the boot into the ‘real’ world. Is it up to the private sector to take care of citizens used and abused by this government? America is here to help but is the government? Shameful, yet again.
I am sickened but not for the same reason Susan is. This is how our govt treats the returning veterans…a website that explains how to respond to them in the workplace, but not actually giving them the medical care they need, in fact avoiding the more costly diagnoses entirely.
I see two reasons why they aren’t as revered as Susan asks. 1. If we had official public displays, then the wider public would have more reminders of the real toll this illegal war is taking. and 2. We don’t do things publicly in the same way as they did in the 40s. The public arena is played out on TV, and thus is rather twisted and impersonal.
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