Purple hearts for PTSD?

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Not that they will help much.

38 years and I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with the sweats and the eyes bugged out clenching a handfull of sheets till the knuckles crack after one of those bad dreams.

I wish they'd just go away and leave me in peace.

... Walrus said, "to talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings - and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."

I feel the Purple Heart should be for physical wounds and if they want to bestow another Heart medal for emotional wounds like PTSD, it could be amber or blue or golden or any other color besides purple.

My feeling is if will help ease the pain give it to them. Hell, give 'em two.

To award medals for PTSD means that medals for each and every malady suffered by soldiers will have to be provided. I have no argument with that, but I doubt such decorations will go far in healing the physically and mentally wounded.

Far better would be for the Pentagon to provide adequate funds to care for soldiers with PTSD and to issue an order demanding that all members of the military treat victims of PTSD with respect. As it is now, PTSD victims are too often scorned as weak or stupid.

I have a question: If soldiers return from Iraq without PTSD or other mental issues, are they sane? How can one not be affected by war and suffering?

One question would define sanity...

Did you like the war?