{"id":30115,"date":"2012-05-24T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30115"},"modified":"2012-05-24T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:57:31","slug":"that-crazy-vet-with-ptsd-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30115","title":{"rendered":"That crazy vet with PTSD thing again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we get this story, sent to us by Tman from some woman named Amanda Crum at a place called WebProNews<\/a>. It’s the story of a supposed veteran by the name of Ray Miles who forced his way into WIBW-TV in Topeka, KS to convince the television station to air his grievances against his treatment at the Department of Veterans Affairs. While he was trying to force his way in, some people tried to stop him and he pulled out a knife and stabbed two in their legs. Here’s the video;<\/p>\n

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Now, I’m not defending Mr. Miles or condemning the TV station employees, But, I did notice that Mr. Miles is a bit off-balanced, which means that maybe he wasn’t a veteran at all, because the AP story<\/a> where all of this comes from doesn’t mention that he’s a veteran. At this point, no one really knows if he’s a veteran or not, but they like to say it. <\/p>\n

In fact, he’s homeless and has been for a while and he was asked to leave the shelter where he was staying for violent behavior, according to WIBW<\/a>. And he’s assaulted a police officer in the recent past. We all know stories of homeless people who try to convince us that they were in the military, and I don’t see anyone checking on Miles’ status. And it looks like no one checked with the VA even, otherwise there might be a quote from the local VA folks.<\/p>\n

But to me the most egregious part of the story is Amanda Crum;<\/p>\n

While the story is disturbing to say the least, it also rings with a sad truth; that veterans who come home with serious emotional and mental issues are often overlooked or even ignored. Many stories have surfaced over the years of deadly prescription pill cocktails being given to veterans to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and unfortunately that seems to be the case all too often when a member of the military seeks help. While it\u2019s not known if Miles was on any medication at the time of the altercation yesterday<\/strong>, officials are aware that Veterans Affairs did play a part in his agitation. Whether or not he will be treated is yet unknown. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis is mine.<\/p>\n

It’s not known for certain if Miles was in the military, or if he was taking drugs, or if he has PTS, but that’s not going to stop Ms. Crum from warning us all that the streets are full of drugged up vets each on the cusp of a violent psychotic break.<\/p>\n

I want to warn everyone that the streets are full of doped up, half-witted pseudo-journalists all just waiting to demonstrate how little they know about everything by arriving at completely irrational and unsupported conclusions.<\/p>\n

Ms. Crum, even a cursory internet search would tell you that veterans who suffer from PTS are not likely to be violent or harm people other than themselves. It’s a myth perpetuated by the ignorant rushing to explain things they don’t understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we get this story, sent to us by Tman from some woman named Amanda Crum … That crazy vet with PTSD thing again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}