By: Ronald E Brown

Ronald E Brown — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:52:42 +0000

“The War Department also banned Let There Be Light”.
As a Vietnam veteran, I did not begin to receive acknowledgement treatment for my psychological injuries until 27 years after the was [for me] had ended.
Early in my treatment, I stumbled onto this film (made two years before I was born), on cable TV, and realized that: “Here is yet another area that the VA has been lying to us …”, during the 70’s and most of the 80’s, we were denied treatment for Combat PTSD by the VA for “Insuficient [New] Evidence”,until such time that (according to an important psychiatric nurse) our numbers could no longer be ignored …
This, very important film, informed me of the lie because it demonstrates the treatment procedures practiced then and denied to following generations of “Walking wounded”.
The treatment of US military veterans is a NATIONAL DISGRACE.
I’m passing this information on to my psychiatrist, therapists, and other veteran’s for their edification: I thank whatever God’s may be …

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By: Ronald E Brown