Veterans Rally for the "Right to Heal"

Check out this video of an interview with an antiwar activist from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), which includes in its mission support for "Full benefits, adequate healthcare (including mental health), and other supports for returning servicemen and women."

In fact, IVAW has just launched Operation Recovery:

Thousands of troops are being sent to war despite suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and Military Sexual Trauma (MST).  Many of us within IVAW have faced or are currently facing deployment as we try to recover from the severe trauma we have already experienced.

While we recognize that we must stop the deployment of all soldiers in order to end the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, we see the deployment of soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Military Sexual Trauma as particularly cruel, inhumane, and dangerous. Military commanders across all branches are pushing service members far past human limits for the sake of 'combat readiness.'  We cannot allow those commanders to continue to ignore the welfare of their troops who are, after all, human beings.

There is a problem, a basic right is being denied, and we will organize to get it back.

This issue affects all of us. Everyone needs to recognize that the improper standards of care in the military and VA are harming our brothers and sisters, our nation, and only furthers the cycle of dehumanization and destruction of these wars.

This campaign will focus on ending the deployment of one traumatized service member for every five deployed total.  This change would also reduce the ability of our government to engage in endless war that perpetuates the unhealthy state of our troops.

Learn more here.