Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (abbreviated PTSD) IS an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events that threatened or caused great physical harm.  It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma.  This stressor may involve someone’s actual death, a threat to the patient’s or someone else’s life, serious physical injury, an unwanted sexual act, or a threat to physical or psychological integrity, overwhelming psychological defenses.                                                                                                                                                                                                Wiki

Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake; I pray the Lord my soul to take it the Hell away from here! 

BATTLE DIARY, An Excerpt  

300,000Is not enough           

300 dead

Is too much 140 degrees           

--Kevlar           

--Full Gear

Sweat & Fear

                        Baghdad 2003

110,000 

Is not enough           

200 dead

Is too much June: a promised date           

 --Kevlar           

--Full Gear

                        Fallujah April 2004

 

115, 000 

Is not enough           

750 dead

All toll, 5,000 disabled           

Is too much 

May: A vicious month—Rape, Sodomy.           

--Kevlar           

--Full Gear

Sweat & Fear

           Abu Ghraib 2004

 

138,000

Is not enough           

1000 dead—22,000 wounded

Is too much 

June: a promising month: A 30 day wait.           

     --A brokered UN deal: Peace with honor           

      --A Trojan Horse laid by each side in the guise of compromise           

      --A Rider Less Horse

     --A Rudderless Nation. 125 degrees           

--Kevlar           

--Full Gear

Sweat & Fear

                Najaf, Kufa, Baghdad 2004

 

140,000

Is not enough           

1,050 deadIs too much 

July: A New Era/Error: A lie is Father to the War           

     --A June Surprise!           

     --A New Saddam is put in place            

      --Old Saddam is put on trial           

     --The Iraqis are Officially Free           

     --I wish the Hell I was. 

140 degrees           

--Kevlar           

--Full Gear

Sweat & Fear 

                        Falujah, July 2004

 

140, 000 Minus a Few

Is not enough           

     I’ve lost count of the dead because

It became too much 

August 2009:  If there is a fire in Hell, then Iraq must be its chimney!