{"id":16094,"date":"2009-11-14T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T00:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shinseki_measures_scope_of_veterans_mental_issues\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T00:15:32","slug":"shinseki_measures_scope_of_veterans_mental_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16094","title":{"rendered":"Shinseki Measures Scope Of Veterans&#39; Mental Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Shinseki spoke to a group of young veterans attending college. A former Army chief of staff who was wounded during his service in Vietnam, Shinseki asked the veterans if any of them suffered from post-traumatic stress.<\/p>\n<p>He got only silence \u201d\u201d so Shinseki asked about symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many of you have a little trouble sleeping at night?&#8221; he asked the students, many of whom had been in combat.<\/p>\n<p>The general then asked them if they were overly vigilant for threats in their own homes, or if any of them had been having anger management problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then hands go up,&#8221; Shinseki said. &#8220;And they looked at each other, and they suddenly realize they&#8217;re not the only ones in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=120366147\">Listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Shinseki spoke to a group of young veterans attending college. A former Army chief of staff who was wounded during his service in Vietnam, Shinseki asked the veterans if any of them suffered from post-traumatic stress. He got<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16094\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,104,141,602,106,129,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-health-medicine","category-iraq-war","category-mental-illness","category-military-armed-forces","category-psychology","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}