Pentagon considers Purple Hearts for PTSD
June 9th, 2008From Time Magazine:
The Pentagon has diagnosed roughly 40,000 troops with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since 2003, and tens of thousands of others are dealing with it on their own or ultimately will be diagnosed. The Pentagon is now weighing a change in policy that would make people with PTSD eligible for a Purple Heart.
… Traditional veterans’ groups don’t want the rules loosened. “We vehemently disagree” that PTSD is a physical wound that warrants a Purple Heart, says Joseph Palagyi, the national adjutant of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, who earned the medal in Vietnam on June 2, 1968. “We feel that the purity of the medal must be maintained.”
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