{"id":596,"date":"2006-08-22T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2006-08-22T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T15:20:35","slug":"what-iraq-vets-can-expect-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"What Iraq vets can expect in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still catching up on my old newspapers. I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/17\/AR2006081701488.html\">this article<\/a> from four days ago about about Vietnam Vets and PSTD (post traumatic stress disorder) benefits.<\/p>\n<p>This passage jumped out at me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;some critics have contended that its [PSTD] numbers were inflated. That view has recently been invoked by conservative commentators who have implied that many veterans are malingerers who have exaggerated their traumas and are bilking taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, after sending our troops to Iraq is this what they can expect from the Republican Party in twenty years when they too try to seek help for the scars of war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still catching up on my old newspapers. I just read this article from four days ago about about Vietnam Vets and PSTD (post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}