Signature Wounds » awol http://www.signaturewounds.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Eric’s Parents http://www.signaturewounds.com/2010/02/06/erics-parents/ http://www.signaturewounds.com/2010/02/06/erics-parents/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:09:11 +0000 admin http://www.signaturewounds.com/?p=1 Eric with his parents

Eric, Laura and Michael

Laura and Michael from Arkansas

Eric, a specialist in the Army was deployed to Iraq in 2005. Upon his return he was diagnosed with PTSD by a civilian physchiatrist and given two medications, a sleep-aid and an anti-depressant. With four months left to go in the Army and suffering from PTSD he was stop-lossed and set to deploy back to Iraq. According to Eric, the Army offered him a 90 day supply of his meds and the guarantee that he could get more in the field when those ran out. Eric didn’t deploy with his unit, instead he stayed home in Arkansas with his family. Eric was now AWOL.  In December of 2009 I sat with Eric and his parents on the day before he turned himself in to the MP’s at Ft Hood. Below are some excerpts from that interview.

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