Lit Review: This paper will focus on the idea that America needs to provide more support for returning veterans in the form of more readily available, A.A., mental health treatment and more research into the signs of PTSD so that treatment may be administered faster. The specific example from pop culture I’m using is the movie “Man on Fire”. This movie shows a clear example of what veterans deal with (mentally) during and after they serve our country. The themes it presents are alcoholism, suicide and faith.
The first paragraph I have sources that will be discussing alcoholism among veterans. My NCADD source will have information on this and have an example of a real soldier who eventually did get help for his alcoholism. This source also has many statistics on soldiers affected by alcoholism. The stats focus on age, ethnicity and gender. The National Institute of Drug abuse also has many statics about those affected and what is currently being changed in the military to help curb the trend of rising alcoholism.
The next paragraph will focus on suicide among veterans. The article from Gregg Zoroya has statistics and demographics on veterans that commit suicide focusing again on age, ethnicity and gender. The article by Peter Catel from CQR, supports my argument with the example of a young soldier with multiple deployments who eventually did kill himself because he did not get the mental help he needed. This article also discusses what the DoD is doing to try and cut the numbers and also has stats and demographics about injured soldiers having a higher rate of suicide.
Finally, in my last body paragraph I’ll go into detail about how faith is a large portion of mental health treatment and A.A. meetings as well.
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