Op-ed: ‘Troubled minds and purple hearts’
January 26th, 2009Writing in the New York Times, former Marine infantry officer Tyler E. Boudreau says the Pentagon should reconsider its recent decision not to award the Purple Heart to veterans and soldiers who have post-traumatic stress disorder.
He suggests that a new decoration be created to recognize those “whose minds and souls have been sundered by war.” An excerpt:
Sadly, as long as our military culture bears at least a quiet contempt for the psychological wounds of war, it is unlikely those veterans will ever see a Purple Heart. That is too bad, I think, because they do deserve all the honor the physically wounded receive.
See also: Counting the Walking Wounded — op-ed by Lawrence M. Wein in the New York Times
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