[ComputerGuy]

PTSD
Survivor's Guilt
Being frustrated with the VA

I've never actually experienced any of that stuff myself, but I hear that a bad case of even one of them can cause an increase in one's suicide potential.

[charlie72]

“It never goes away.”

The awful, helpless realization that you have become cannon fodder, a pawn, in a politicians’ game.

[crazydad]

I watched my dad let himself go, slowly. From Vietnam he always carried the fallen brothers he lost. He also had the 1000 meter stare. Not being wounded when so many died in his company really hurt him. RIP Ron 173rd Airborne 67-68. And god bless this marine.