Narrative Essay About Veterans

I sat in my car gazing through the window as the lightning violently struck through the air. My heart was drowning in the rain as I looked at the broken picture in front of me. I have no dad, at least not one present at the moment. I see a mom at her wits end trying, but I know it's all pretend, an illusion that doesn’t have an ending. Looking at our house, our doll house, with all its broken figurines I can see the lights are on but nobody's home and everything has been left alone. The dust collects on the pictures that were left behind, the images that tell the facade of our lives. No father to be there. We all have lost our sympathy no one really cares. At least that's what we say: it still hurts. But there's nothing we can do when the system …show more content…
Often times those who are injured, physically, and mentally are forgotten about. Just like a grain in a pile of sand many of those that need help are lost in the countless numbers of others that have served. For example, “50% of those with PTSD do not seek treatment and out of the half that seek treatment, only half of them get "minimally adequate" treatment” (Veterans and PTSD). Our eagles take flight but as soon as they injure their wings we abandon them. We turn humans into killing machines and don’t teach them how to turn their humanity switch back on. Our heroes, the ones we once praised, come back and our country is only able to give “minimally adequate treatment”. The reality is if they only gave minimally adequate service then we wouldn’t have all the freedoms that we have today. Why is this any different for them? They give their all everyday for our freedom, and yet we can’t find the resources to help support them when they finish their duties. When these men and women go out to protect their country they don’t just do it for themselves they do it for the freedom of us all. So when they come back it shouldn’t just be special care for one but excellent care for