You know, enough is just enough.

The psychological trauma that soldiers experience is very real. It can be incapacitating, and I daresay is outside the realm of anything you have ever experienced.

This is not a theory. This is not in a book. This is not something to sit and ponder and discuss over coffee. This is a real thing. It's called PTSD.

It manifests in very real ways, the armed services have spent years marginalizing it, putting it in "quotes" as you have done - all the while telling them to "man up". These are already powerful men and women.

Man up when you have been to war.

A lot of soldiers drink to self-medicate. They have to fight, even when they get home, to get the help they have earned from the veteran's administration.

If you have any doubts, spend some time with soldiers and their families. Walk through hospitals around military bases here in the US. Watch medivac helicopters bring the wounded soldiers in.

These soldiers deserve our respect, our gratitude and the absolute best this country can give them.

Your minimization of their suffering is insulting.