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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Charlie Anderson: Can We Come Home Now?

Charlie Anderson, a Navy Hospital Corpsman with the Marine Corps, details his feelings of betrayal by his government for sending him to a war without purpose, his destroyed marriage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

"...Doug and I are America’s returned veterans, her sons, left on our own to suffer after the torment of war. I still struggle through life. I often remind myself that I have to bring myself through for my daughter. I force myself to hope that even though my personal finances are in shambles, my marriage destroyed, and nearly everything I once held dear left on the rubbish heap created by this war, this torture cannot last forever. Some days I believe it; on many, I don’t. Read more of this t r u t h o u t | FOCUS

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