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No Heart for PTSD Sufferers

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 1/10/2009 on democracyarsenal.org

There was a rather dispiriting item in the New York Times today about the Pentagon's decision not to award Purple Hearts to soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. According to the Pentagon, those affected by PTSD do not merit recognition because "the condition had not been ...