Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

I read about post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from a health website called healthyplace. The article says that PTSD is caused when "the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others and the person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror." This happens when people go to war. PTSD is a serious psychological effect of war because people have to kill kids, they have to make a moral effort of killing people, and they are constantly scared they are going to get killed by Iraqi troops. They can get killed, that is the most helpless feeling. Having a bunch of guys shooting at you makes you very scared which is a major cause of PTSD. Also, the Iraqi people are used to seeing people shooting and reshooting is easier for them because it is part of their life, some soldiers go to war who have never seen death and they are not used to it and it is very horrible for them. US people are not used to living with war and death. The worst thing that happened to the USA was September 11th and that only happened in New York. In Iraq war and terrorism happens in every single town on a regular basis. Soldiers are just people, they are people and they are going to be scared when they see death and war. Going to Iraq is like suicide becuase they go they get shot and the bullets go through people and some people are USA marines, it doesn't matter how strong or how much training you go through, they are not used to receiving bullets. They are not made of steel and that scares them and gives them a sense of helplessness and that helplessness is a serious cause of PTSD which is a psychological effect of war.

Sad rape story

I read a very sad story from CNN about four US soldiers who raped a 14 year old girl and murdered her and her family in Iraq. There was another story, also on CNN about the soldier's punishments. Rape and murder are not normal behavior for men. The family that you know and men who are not in Iraq wouldn't think to do this horrible thing. For example, your brother wouldn't normally go with his friends and dress in black and break into somebody's house and rape a girl and then kill her family. The reason that these four US soldiers did this is because the psychological effects that war has had on them. War makes those soldiers feel that they rule the world with their guns, and that they are like the king of Rome compared to the Iraqi people. That for them, the Iraqi people were lower than them. They had no regard when they raped the girl. The United Nations has agreed on a set of Universal Laws of Human Rights which all countries should follow. One effect of war is the disregard of Human Rights for all people. This story is a great example of how war effects people. These four soldiers went into someone's home and killed the whole family. Raping the oldest daughter in the family who was only 14 years old. The poor girl was Muslim and Muslims are very conservative with boys and girls being seprate. For her, it was against her morality. She must have felt betrayed by the human race. These soldiers had no regard for her religion, her morality, or her life. This is a psychological effect of war. If those men were not in the Iraqi war, they never would have done that to a family. This is especially terrible because the Muslims are a group of people who do not let their women talk to men in private so it is a great dishonor for her, her family, and her country to have those men use her body like that.