Amen to that! I know several people with TBI and it is a terrible ordeal for
them and their families and friends. The worst part is it manifests itself in
different ways depending on which part of the brain was damaged - amnesia,
aphasia, stroke like, inappropriate behavior... the list goes on. Yes, more
funding and research is long overdo.
Dan V
At 08:49 PM 6/19/06 -0400, River Wolfe said something that elicited my response:
>Hey Dan, sounds like you've been listening to Randi Rhodes ;-)))
>
>BTW, there was an article in the most recent Rolling Stone about a
>guy who had a brain injury while injured in Iraq. The care he
>received was pretty good while inpatient, but as soon as he went
>home, things fell apart for him. THere are hundreds of soldiers
>coming home with brain injury because the humvees are armored enough
>to withstand the IED blasts, but no human can withstand that kind of
>impact without their heads taking some kind of trauma. Such a shame,
>this country knows so little and DOES so little about brain injury.
>Perhaps this will increase funding and knowledge. I worked with
>survivors of brain injury for many years and that is one disability
>which is very hard to live with and to treat.
>
>
>Peace,
>
>River
>On Jun 19, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Dan wrote:
>
>>Stranger still is love of ones' Religion, Country and Autonomy.....
>>
>>I never realized you were such a Fascist! My Country - right or
>>wrong eh. And if we're wrong, all the better - bring em on! Fascism
>>is what put the likes of Hitler and Mussolini in power and kept
>>them there. The people of these countries never questioned their
>>Governments. Kill Six million Jews? No problem my leaders are
>>ALWAYS right.
>>
>>And NO country wants to be occupied. Look what happened to the
>>British 'Liberation' i.e. Occupation/Empire. And did you know that
>>only 1 percent (that's one percent) of ALL Iraqis want us in their
>>country! We rank far lower than the insurgents!
>>
>>How would you react if Russia decided that Bushy posed a threat to
>>the world so they instigated a preemptive strike (Shock and Awe)
>>killing hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians and
>>destroying our infrastructure while doing so? Then they invaded our
>>Country and occupied all of our best and fanciest buildings, so
>>they could 'fix up OUR country'? What do you think we would do? Um,
>>maybe become insurgents? And perhaps the Canadians and Mexicans
>>would join us in becoming resistant fighters as they most likely
>>would be next in the eradication of Axis of Evils.
>>
>>And you can't compare how one country fights another. If you
>>remember our war with England, the British marched into battle in
>>compact formations while the American liberators hid behind trees
>>and rock walls and picked off the British at will. All the while
>>the British were saying - what the Hell is wrong with these
>>Americans? Don't they know how to fight a proper war? My God, they
>>are nothing but heathens.
>>
>>And what did we do in Vietnam? We couldn't beat them with gun fire
>>on the ground so we tried saturation high altitude bombing, That
>>didn't work since the people we were fighting were living
>>underground which we knew! Then we tried defoliating their forest
>>that didn't work again because they were hiding underground. 'What
>>the Hell is wrong with these Americans? Don't they know how to
>>fight a proper war? My God, they are nothing but heathens.' So then
>>we started dropping Napalm - White Phosphorous - Whisky Pete. How
>>many innocent men, women, and children were killed by Napalm? This
>>stuff sticks to your skin and burns till it's spent. There is no
>>way to put it out. It's a horrible way to die. And in the end, we
>>got our ass kicked. Today a unified Vietnam is one of our best
>>trading partners. 50 thousand plus dead GIs and millions of dead
>>Vietnamese. Was all that inhumanity worth it? Oh, I forgot. It was
>>Jane Fonda and John Kerrys' fault.
>>
>>Well, I could go on forever but I am proud to say I'm one of the 70
>>percent who believe this preemptive and baseless war was a grave
>>mistake that has turned the world against us and I'm afraid we will
>>pay dearly for it in the years to come.
>>
>>I will not post again on this topic. Good night my Fascist friend.
>>Oh, by the way, I've met several quads and amps that were injured
>>in Iraq and they hate the war and everything about it.
>>
>>They don't sound like bad guys to me. But it does make this an SCI
>>topic.
>>
>>
>>Dan V
>>
>>
>>At 01:38 PM 6/17/06 -0500, Tim Thompson said something that
>>elicited my response:
>>
>>>Strange thing Freedom....
>>>Once one gets a taste, it's more addictive to one's soul than
>>>drugs..... to those who didn't grow up in it through the selfless
>>>sacrifices of their ancestors.... Peolpe forget how many years we
>>>stayed in Germany and Japan, and we're STILL in S. Korea.
>>>But we now here BS about "quagmire", calling sophmoric
>>>degradidations torture, claiming we're worse than the beheaders
>>>and real torturers and comparisons to Vietnam, while all the
>>>positive news is ignored, like "women voting and holding office in
>>>an Arab country (that's 2 now).
>>>We gave into liberal propaganda (speaking of the majority of
>>>public support) during Vietnam, {1] when the "Useful Idiots" like
>>>hanoi jane and komrade kerry decieved America, we created "no fire
>>>zones etc, which eliminated any chance of victory and signed a
>>>cease fire agreement.
>>>When the North Vietnamese violated the Cease fire Agreement, the
>>>Democratic leadership faulted on our promise and over a million
>>>civilians were slaughtered in Vietnam and Cambodia as the "Peacful
>>>Communists" (according to the "Useful Idiots") took them over.
>>>A new generation, unaware of the truth that the "Useful Idiots"
>>>caused, are now bombarded by the same style propaganda, and bin
>>>hidden is counting on them just like Ho Chi Mein did.
>>>[1] This was not the only problem, as then, like now,
>>>"politicians" thought they were better qualified to run the war.
>>>
>>>The TERRORISTS (I refuse to call foriegn suicide bombers
>>>"insurgents") are fighting to PREVENT stability and hope to start
>>>civil war, BUT THE IRAQI's ARE NOW TELLING US WHO THEY ARE and
>>>where they're hiding.
>>>The only hope we have of a long term solution is proving the
>>>Terrorists wrong by exposing the people to the truth.
>>>Presently the "Hate Bush " first crowd is muddying that water of
>>>hope by aiding with propaganda that America is Bad and blowing
>>>things out of proportion instead of waiting for the truth to come
>>>out.
>>>I met a new para a couple of weeks ago at the Hines VA SCI unit,
>>>who was sorry he couldn't go back to fight in Iraq.
>>>Doesn't sound like a bad guy to me. But it does make this an SCI
>>>topic.
>>>Stunt
>>
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