Stigma: The "Not-So-Silent" Killer

I guess if you add this to being a Vietnam Vet ,boy that's trouble with a "T", has taken this very old grunt many years of anger and alcohol to finally(well one day at a time)come to terms with something that changed my life so many years ago and yet if I could go back would not change one damn thing,guess it's a grunt thing after all.

Great read with many valid points.

It is a good read and as others have said has many valid points.
However, what it does not address is why there is now such a stigma attached. Could it be because of societal shifts? Could it be because we desire acceptance from the mainstream middle that we will probably never get?
Have there been such problems in the past? Yes. There is a big BUT attached to this - Then as opposed to Now, a greater portion of society was in the same boat, so there was not so much stigma attached.
Something to think about.