It’s ridiculous to believe a soldier, witness to the horrors of combat, can be turned back into a civilian without any psychological damage.
So says a soldier in the film “The Ground Truth,” a new documentary chronicling the lives of several Iraq combat veterans and their coming to terms with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Military Families for Peace, a local veterans group, screened the film and facilitated a discussion about the disorder Tuesday in a classroom on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
(Professor Joe Elder is quoted.)