Read Aaron Barlow‘s full review of Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America’s Returning Troops by Ilona Meagher (Ig Publishing) on the ePluribus Media Journal.
Below, Barlow provides even more additional reasons why Ilona’s book is a must read.
All veterans carry their wars with them. They cannot help it. We who remained at home need to respect that and provide much more for them than a pat on the back and commendation for a job well done. We really need to provide more for those who have been disabled by the war, physically, mentally, or both.
And that, though she concentrates on PTSD (one of today’s most crying yet unmet needs), is the point of Ilona Meagher’s book, Moving a Nation to Care–whatever we think of a particular war, we owe it to the veterans to insure they have the services they need, and for the rest of their lives. They can’t drop the war; we can’t drop them (though we have).
If I have any criticism at all, it’s the title of the book. Moving a Nation to Care is probably too timid. A title that really carries the anger that we should all be feeling about the treatment of our veterans, however, would never be accepted on bookstore shelves.
This isn’t only a book that each of us should read: it’s a roadmap to what we all should be doing, if we have any respect for ourselves and for the people who are willing to do the dirty work that (whether we agree with the specific or not) they do at “our” request.
Meagher’s book appears at an important juncture for our veterans. The weight of their need is finally getting notice–this week’s Washington Post revelations about Walter Reed hospital being only the most recent press tempest–but the gap between the problems and their solutions is growing, if anything.
This is a problem we can alleviate. That we are not is a national disgrace. That we can is the point of Meagher’s book.
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