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Veterans With PTSD Are Cowards? Horse Hockey!

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Statue
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Statue

Ed White, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who's battled post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for 42 years, reacts with understandable passion to a recent blog post in which I told the story of how legendary Army General George S. Patton called a soldier a coward because he was hospitalized for combat stress.

White writes:

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