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Published: 2005-02-23 17:38:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 3744; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 218
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Disturbing:"One in six soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from PTSD"
"Mental health experts say we face a crisis because one in six returning soldiers from Iraq is suffering from post-traumatic stress, and the number is expected to grow rapidly. You will not be amazed to learn that the Pentagon did not anticipate the problem, since it has yet to anticipate anything about Iraq correctly."
[Extracted from Markham's Behavioural Health [link] ]
Scary stuff.
War sucks. I think that people returning from the battleground that have mental problems like these are not alive as they used to be (hence the burned matches). A large number of them (sadly) would've rather returned in a bodybag.
[I tried out my new lights on this one, works fine... I built a mini-improvised-studio and will have more power to do shots like these from now on.]
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My comment is reallly late, but my Dad suffers from PTSD.
He has a lot of other problems to.
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Wonder where you got that number from? I would guess that it means that 1 in 6 returning service members have SERIOUS PTSD, cause I promise you that everyone exposed to war is affected.
I wonder how man Iraqi's suffer from PTSD, not just from out attacks on them, but from the last 30 years of misery that have been inflicted on them. Bet it would be more than 1 in 6. And on that score, how many of Gaza's residents have it? How many of her children?
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well the iraqies that were killed in the process didn't make it out alive, where's the justice in that?
i didn't type in this comment to diss you or anything, it's just that i think this whole thing sucks
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I would like to post this in the Progressive Veterans myspace photo gallery and perhaps use it for other Progressive Veteran purposes. ProVets is a new non-profit organization similar to IVAW (iraq veterans against the war) so of course with your permission I would love to use this for educational purposes.
Thanks,
Dan
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i'm late with my response but sure, use it, just credit me somewhere
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Okay cool. I can edited to to put your name at the bottom. Also It will be on myspace.com/progressiveveterans
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6/6 iraqi's are killed for no reason.. what difference does it make?
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its not just not iraq this shit is happening in since World War One this shit has been documented happening to survivors..if you dont have the mental capacity then dont sign up for war
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ERR! ptsd! cool pic bro. iraq sucks. it aint that bad tho....
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The heads on the burnt matches almost look like helmets... Very nicely done.
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im working on adegree in psychology specifically just to help our military personal with this problem
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great idea... my husband just made it back in sept. 06
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Hope he's ok!
And hope his cause for going was noble and not because he was told to go.
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That was a quote from somwhere. I also believe it's far worse than that.
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yes what we see in the TV not always true.
nice to meet u
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what world is this we live in. is there anything more pathetic than war? anything more pointless? the world has always been standing in one place.
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cleverly done !!! and very true as well ...war is really sad ...
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Not only is it sad, it's also unnecessary.
Thanx
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predobra kompozicija, i zanimljivo povezano s izjavom ispod slike. stvarno jesi konceptualni fotograf
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Izgleda da jesam. Premda mozda moje fotke djeluju pretenciozno meni je bitno na ovakav nacin pokazivati sto mislim o tim temama.
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Super je ovo. Jednostavnost+ideja je za mene najbolji koncept.
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Hvala, slazem se..
Less is more.
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Very good photo. You really do pass the message with it. And i like the way you chose to.
The only thing i'd suggest would be, continue the matches line, so that you give a better view of the large number of soldiers.
But that's just my opinion
nice work, and nice lighting
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Thanx a lot. The idea was to put the matches to go beyond the frame, but I simply ran out of matches (the burned ones are very fragile and kept breaking so I spent all i had LOL)
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THat's a very powerful image, about a very powerful subject.
This has to be a 
I already 
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Thanx for liking it and faving it..
Unfortunately last couple of weeks have been too busy @ work for me to shoot and upload any new concepts
I hope that will change in a week or two.
Take care
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This is an amazing portrayal of something that is all too real and all too scary... the photo is very eye catching and makes you really stop and think of the tragedy of war... the photo is well executed and the concept well thought out. Well done.
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Sobering, glad there are people who take the time to make others think about things like this. Well Done. The picture is composed nicely and the lighting is good too, but is there a reason the bottoms of the first matches are cut off of the picture?
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No particular reason for that.. The DOF is narrow because I wanted to get the effect that the row of these soldiers goes to infinity (but didn't have enough matches to get them going beyond the frame LOL)...
Thanx for commenting.
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That's powerful, I have to say. Very sobering. You could make a poster out of it or something, and I think it'd make people think a little more about war.
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I am thinking about getting a print account. You'll know when it comes as I'll resubmit some of my shots
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Nice set up. PTSD is a common thing amoungst war. If you see things that are disturbing your mind can't always process it and let it go. It is part of being human. Although I wouldn;t say they would rather return in a body bag. Sadly PTSD is common in abusive housholds as well. It is sad that people have to live a whole life reliving the horrors of the past. It shouldn't have to be that way and war is one of those things that should not be. Great capture of the numbers here.
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When I read infos about the PST suffering soldiers I always wonder how soldiers and ordinary people managed to survive and go back to normal life about such ordeals like, for example, World War Two - with all the genocides, and things they experienced for a coupple of War's years. Were people stronger 60 years ago? I don't really have an idea...
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Odlicna ideja. Sad cu se i ja malo vise zabavljati s makrom jer sam si slozil makro rasvjetu. Dobis link drugi tjedan kad napisem sve.
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I ja mislim da bi malo vishe DoF-a bilo bolje... 
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i really like the idea. like creative x5 and your trying to get a point across this is real good work
so is ptsd like the stuff you here about when people return from war and arent themselves? like yuo read from books about older brothers returning from the war? [random thought] but same thing?
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Yeah, something like that. The guys returning from Vietnam had that, and when they find out that there's no job waiting for them when they do come back, they pick up guns and take their own lives often, dissapointed and all that. Sad. It happened in my country after the recent war and it still does.
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It's Croatia. (One of the ex-Yugoslavia countries)
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