Well, the latest PTSD incident (which occurred this past Thursday) has been added to the PTSD Timeline project housed at ePluribus Media.

Allow me to introduce you to a 20-year old Army private based out of Fort Hood, TX. His name is Jacob Hounshell. His story will be viewable in the PTSD Timeline tomorrow (it's currently being fact-checked). If the past is any indication, the national media won't spend too much time telling you about the tailspin this young man's life has taken ever since he returned home from a year's deployment in Iraq. No one wants to hear those ugly details do they?

Well, I would like you to meet him. Read his story, learn more about post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] at my new blog, and then follow me below the fold to see the breakdown of the 69 other incidents now making preparations for this young soldier to join them...

To head off any confusion, the question I'm proffering here is: Is PTSD as radioactive to the Bush administration as AIDS was to Reagan's? I'm not comparing the two illnesses with one another.

Since Vice President Dick Cheney is currently the big buzz in news these days, I thought I'd be clever and come up with a post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] angle to the story.

As I began my search for that PTSD angle, I found Cheney to be as accommodating to me as he was to the local Texas authorities last weekend. It seems our Vice President, who proclaims to support our troops, has apparently never gone on record uttering the term `post-traumatic stress disorder.'

Even though it is now reported that 40,000 troops have returned from combat showing symptoms of mental health disorder, Cheney's made absolutely no acknowledgement of the problem in any of his speeches or remarks. As a matter of fact, neither has our President:

The Reagan administration also had a problem uttering another deadly acronym: AIDS. Isn't it ugly how our leaders try to banish what they don't want to acknowledge? It's also very dangerous...