What I do know is the 'veterans' have always plagued the native Hawaiian communities with their sorry ass psycho problems! And it pains me to see 'native Hawaiian' sisters joining the cry babies on maoliworld. Children and very young men are preyed upon everyday and the women widen (spread) their loving arms and legs for the morning thrill.
We have lots of problems out in our native Hawaiian community that need our support. We have: Americore (snicth and ditch), we have people outside of our community and culture working in state jobs (while we volunteer), we have the largest families by definition(Fed. McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) of poverty in the entire Hawaii State where more than 50% are children. We have the new comer, recent, and life poverty stricken persons in the entire Pacific Ocean living right here in Waianae.
We don't have time for sick veterans that use up the Hawaiian movement to cover their sickness. They need to seek help from the very people that made them sick!
We have terroist among our Hawaiian Movement and it is just a matter of time before we are blamed for their sick acts!!!!
Wake up!
Just because our culture is a giving culture does not mean we let any dick-prick into our homes and to share our assertion of the illegal overthrow of our Hawaiian Kingdom. Send this sick asses back to their superiors and tell them to visit their Veterans Hospital the Psych Office.
I work my ass off out there in the community, the dishes in the sink is evidence to my loss of energy when I come home. But, I wake up and try again!
Sitting on chat rooms 24 hours is sick, sick , sick especially when there is terroistic threats going on and you native Hawaiian women just gloss your dirty menstral pad over it. Good grief! Like the psycho paths, native Hawaiian women on their periods show up on chat rooms to PMS on any one that happens to be a willing target!
Send these idiots to the veteran hospital! take action!
How can a therapist identify with what these soldiers are going through?
There are a lot of us who have experienced the trauma of combat, come to understand it, only indirectly. There is another dimension of actually being there. There has been a lot of interest in recent years in vicarious traumatization in which hearing trauma stories rekindle traumatic memories [in] the therapist. But beyond that, I can't hope to understand and to really feel what it is actually like to be in combat. And when I'm sitting around with a group of combat veterans, that's very clear to me. I have no question about that. If they start talking about some of the things that have happened, some of the things that they've done, my job is to keep my mouth shut and not try to do anything with that but just let them talk, because I wasn't there.
Even the World War II veterans who won't say anything to their families, have never spoken to their friends, when they get going in a group of them who are all flooded with memories, they have a lot of stories to tell. They won't tell anybody else. And they will say: "It's because Joe understands. Nobody else would understand, and most people wouldn't believe it."
We're beginning to see some of that same trajectory with some of the Vietnam veterans who have been very productive citizens [and] who are now getting into their 50s and 60s. We're seeing more and more and hearing more and more of them coming into treatment saying: "I don't understand what's happening, you know? I've been doing fine all these years, and all of a sudden I'm having trouble. I don't understand." So I expect we will be seeing Vietnam-era people for the next 30 years. And I think we'll be seeing people who are back from Iraq for the next half-century. That's a long time.
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He is a psychiatrist and chief of mental health services for the White River Junction VA Medical Center in Vermont. Here, he talks about PTSD and his concerns that there aren't enough resources to treat returning Iraq veterans suffering from this mental illness. He says, however, that he's confident returning veterans "will find more effective resources than they did 30 years ago" and outlines one of them, the new cognitive processing therapy being used in PTSD treatment. Talking about the many veterans he has treated over the years, Pomerantz shares stories about how, as they grow old, they seek to come to terms with combat experiences, especially killing. "I think it's one of the most powerful pieces for most of the people that I've treated who have been in close combat situations. I had one World War II veteran I remember -- to the day he died he could still describe the face of the man he was about to kill. … I've not ever met a person who killed others who was not affected." This interview was conducted on Oct. 5, 2004.