Medals WILL stop the nightmares, the flashbacks, and the suicides to the extent that they are part of normalizing the identification and treatment of PTSD. It will help the warrior accept that it is a wound, and that it can be treated just like a shrapnel wound in the leg. Part of the treatment for psychological trauma is for the victim to understand that it is a wound, that his country's men and women understand what a sacrifice it was to be injured, and that our military men and women are entitled to every treatment their country can provide.