Will we start to see many crazy returning crazy Iraqi Veterans?

Question

Soldier who served in Iraq tackled by fliers after bizarre incident.

TAMPA, Fla. A frightening incident on a New York to Florida flight, where passengers tackled another flier they say rammed the cockpit door.

And it turns out the suspect is a U-S Army solider who served in Iraq.

This happened last night on a Delta flight to Tampa, where an airport spokeswoman says the soldier is in custody. Authorities are using a state law that lets them hold someone without charges if they pose a threat.

She says the soldier's brother told investigators he has mental problems related to his military service due to killing innocent people in Iraq. But the spokeswoman adds there's no evidence he meant to harm anyone on the flight.

Still, one passenger describes the soldier as behaving oddly by tapping his body and showing off his body art. The Soldier was saying "Hurting innocent people is the American Way and I'm proud of that". The man was then arrested.

Answer 1

I doubt it. They are never coming back, according to George Bushitler. Our job will never be done there. At the rate they are dying, they will die off before they come home.

Answer 2

There are, in any war, a certain percentage of veterans who will return with serious mental problems. Our military has done and is doing everything it can to identify soldiers who might have emotional problems and getting them help. From there, it's up to the soldiers to take advantage of the help.

Some are making way too much of the isolated incidents of veterans losing control after returning from action. This has been the case since the Vietnam War ... when *every* returning vet was painted as a "crazy baby-killer" who was about to go postal.

War has a negative affect on *all* those young men we send off to fight them. Most of them are able to handle the stress and go on with their lives on their return. The percentage who cannot is small ... no matter how much the anti-war faction and mainstream media want you to believe otherwise.

Answer 3

You're the kind of person that brain washed the public into putting down our vets from Vietnam. There are a lot of unspeakable things I could call you but none would quite be low enough. How about just Hajji sympathizer.


crzypvt..........Thanks, I kind of thought the His ranting about killing innocent people was a little over the top. Hello people he's lying to you as well as me.

Answer 4

Greetings,

Well it would seem that you took a few liberties with editing this story. I will post the original version below for my fellow yahoo answer users.
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Published Friday, July 7, 2006
Soldier held after ramming cockpit door on Tampa-bound flight

By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla.
A U.S. Army soldier who had served in Iraq was tackled and restrained by passengers after running down the aisle and ramming the cockpit door on a flight from New York City to Tampa, an official said.

The soldier did not have any weapons and there was no evidence that he meant harm to passengers or crew on the flight Thursday night, Tampa International Airport spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said.

The soldier, who was traveling from New York with his brother to visit their mother on a Delta flight, was restrained on the floor until the flight landed in Tampa.

He was taken into custody under a Florida law that allows a person to be held without charges if they are deemed to be a threat to themselves or others, Geoghagan said. The soldier's brother told officials that he "has some mental problems related to his Army service," Geoghagan said.

The Associated Press was withholding the name of the soldier because no charges have been filed. Information about the soldier's hometown, rank, unit or service in Iraq was not immediately available Friday.

Passenger Jason Moore, 27, told the St. Petersburg Times that the man moved to a seat at the back of the plane 15 or 20 minutes before it was scheduled to land in Tampa.

He wore a New York Yankees cap, spoke Spanish and behaved oddly, tapping people on the shoulder and pointing to some oriental tattoos on his arms, Moore said.

About five minutes before the plane was scheduled to land, the soldier stood up, Moore said. He ran "like he was running in a track meet" down the aisle toward the cockpit before being tackled by passengers in the first-class cabin.

"He rammed the cockpit door a couple of times - full speed," Geoghagan said.

The investigation has been turned over to the FBI.


I hope that the good people here can tell the difference between the two stories.

For those of you who have never met anyone with PTSD I would like to tell you a few stories. I have alot of friends who in the course of making the world safe for you to sleep in have seen some rather horrid things. I know people who have walked through death camps, shot and killed people, Picked children up out of mine fields, fired artillery rounds at the enemy only to see the next day the fruit of their labors.

PTSD for those of you that don’t know is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and happens to alot of people everyday. More so to those that protects your freedom by standing up for it. Such as soldiers, police men and fire men as well as a slew of government agents. This happens because the eyes are showing the brain something that has before only been a nightmare or a scene out of a scary movie. The horror of this causes them to unhinge. It takes year of sleepless nights and lots of love and understanding to overcome this. Not to mention the therapy that the American people in their wisdom has decided to cut funding for. But I digress.

PTSD can make you do some pretty crazy things. Some people get nervous outside or in crowds, me I just get jumpy around loud noises. But if what this young man did was a product of PTSD, I hope he gets help.

When the American people ignore PTSD as being real we end up with a lot of veterans who have no where to turn, they drink, they do drugs and the go down a dark path that no man or woman was ment to walk alone.

I pray that what happened on this airplane will wake you up to the following facts.

Yes war is bad, but it is a reality. These soldiers have done us all a great service, and I for one am proud of them.

PTSD is real and it is affecting veterans today in numbers we haven’t seen in decades.

We live in a time when sadly enough we need heroes. These young men and women just old enough that we don’t call them children are stepping up.

If we do not support our heroes today, next time we need them, well… they may not be there.

Today I ask you to Visit the following web sites. Educate yourself and help America take care of your heroes when they come back.

Life is hard enough, no one should live a nightmare.

Answer 5

I notice that there is no attribution to this story. Did you make it up yourself?

Answer 6

i have seen a few. but it is not as bad as it was in vietnam.