What Wounds Deserve The Purple Heart

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n America, veterans are symbolized as heros who fight in America's battle .We even have a special day to honor the men and women -Veterans day. However, we deny theses heros from such an efficient policy the Purple Heart. The first issue of contention with PTSD is whether it’s a real “wound,” but the answer to this is obvious and well documented by the fact that more combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan die from suicide related to wartime service and mental health issues than from enemy bullets and bombs.Furthermore, veterans are people that go through such a traumatizing experience and should not be treated as robots.The article,”What wounds Deserve the purple heart?”, states “Those who believe that psychological wounds should qualify

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