Vets Are Furious Sarah Palin Blamed Her Son’s Domestic Violence On PTSD

[ErikJ]

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/21/vets-are-furious-sarah-palin-blamed-her-sons-domestic-violence-on-ptsd/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

On the night of Jan. 18, Sarah Palin’s 26-year-old son, Track, returned to his home in Wasilla, Alaska. Drunk, he allegedly beat his girlfriend, held an AR-15 to his head and threatened to kill himself, according to a police report on the incident. Two days later, his mother, stumping on behalf of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, made political fodder out of her son’s actions.

Track was deployed to Iraq when his mother was announced as John McCain’s running mate in 2008, and Sarah Palin on Wednesday noted “these ramifications of some PTSD, and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with.”

“I can talk personally about this, I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room,” Palin said at an Oklahoma rally, where she was campaigning for Trump. “My son, like so many others — they come back a bit different, they come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to this country.”

The blame, Palin said, lies at the feet of President Barack Obama. “It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to wonder, if they have to question, if they’re respected anymore,” the former Alaska governor said. “The question, though — that comes from our own president, where they have to look at him and wonder, do you know what we go through?”
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Military veterans take Sarah Palin to task for blaming son’s domestic violence arrest on PTSD
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/21/military_veterans_take_sarah_palin_to_task_for_blaming_sons_domestic_violence_arrest_on_ptsd/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[HereSince1628]

1. No one with a mental disorder wants their mental illness criminalized

The public really doesn't seem to grasp that.

Nor do they grasp that every time they blame the US gun violence problem on mental illness they embrace prejudicial thinking that leads to discrimination against people with mental disorders.

Americans have a fondness for vets. Maybe this will help the message reach more Americans.

[ErikJ]

2. The way the GOP congress votes I dont think they like vets

Theyve voted down every vet benefit bill since at least 2009.

[Raster]

3. Oh Sarah, Sarah...EVERYONE that has known you and your family for any length of time...

...knows about Track's substance abuse issues, from alcohol to methamphetamine and many things in between. You're right, Sarah, Track DID COME BACK DIFFERENT from his two years of military service...it's called SOBER.

And further, Sarah, there was NEVER A TIME that your son Track was anywhere near combat, nor in any danger. PTSD... please.

[AlbertCat]

8. PTSD... please.

I'd like to know what Sarah has done for her son's PTSD?

Has he seen anyone or taken advantage of vet org's that help with such a disorder? Have you seen to it he does these things, Sarah?

[Scarsdale]

12. assignments

I would like to know EXACTLY where he was stationed, and how many tours he did? She claims he has been to Iraq several times. He seems to have spent most of the time he was supposedly in a war zone, back home in Wasilla. People said he was NEVER even overseas. This should be publicized, since the lies are always glossed over with this grifting clan. It is a disservice to REAL vets to have this poser clinging onto these lies.

[keithbvadu2]

4. This was a common meme that VN vets were subjected to and blamed

and supposedly reflected on all VN vets.

[spanone]

5. another 'take no responsibility' reTHUG

[vkkv]

6. God, she is nuts.

Thank you John McCain.

Good thinking, you CRAZY OLD MAN!!

[PeoViejo]

7. I'm a Disabled Vet and suffer from PTSD

...but in all fairness, how many would survive being raised by Sarah Palin and not suffer a Mental Impairment?

[Raster]

13. Point made! Thank you for your service.

Palin Traumatic Stress Disorder?

[Facility Inspector]

9. Nah, it's just plain old drunk redneck shit

Alcoholic, domestic abusing, violent, imbecilic, pointless lives.

[Raster]

14. There is a country song in there somewhere.

[DVRacer]

10. This disabled vet says bullshit n/t

[B Calm]

11. When she takes responsibility for Piss Poor Parenting wake me up!

[Raster]

15. You'll be asleep for a long, long time.

[B Calm]

17. zzzzzzzzzzz

[Sam_Fields]

16. I'm a vet and I'm not mad at Palin

War destroys the mind, body and soul. I didn't serve in a war, but my father and stepfather did. It caused them severe psychological problems. Sixty years ago there was no help for them either.

[maxsolomon]

18. Its not his PTSD that she's blaming.

Its the lack of respect from Obama for Track's sacrifices to the country. It hurt his feewings.

[surrealAmerican]

19. He "came back different", so you say?

Do you mean he's no longer that sweet innocent child who vandalized school busses in the hopes of causing accidents, and maybe injuries? Do you, Sarah?

[pinboy3niner]

20. I just wish...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027551071

[olegramps]

21. The whole damn family is a national disgrace; in fact the damn GOP is a disgrace.

The Republican campaign has made us the laughing stock of the planet.

[skepticscott]

22. What a lying, psychopathic piece of crap

Does she dare to mention that it was George fucking Bush and his lying cohorts who put us in Iraq for no justifiable reason?

And as far as the complaining veterans, if any of THEM ever voted Republican, fuck them too. They are complicit in the plight of everyone who came back from Iraq dead, wounded or psychologically scarred.

[Dont call me Shirley]

23. Keep sticking your heels in your mouth Sarah!

[VA_Jill]

24. Track Palin

was what my generation would have called a REMF (rear echelon MFer). He was a driver. Furthermore, he got *into* the Marines on sufferance, to get him out of some kind of trouble he'd gotten into while drunk and disorderly during Mama Grizzly's gubernatorial career. She didn't want his behavior to react badly on her. He was a punk then, he's a punk now, just slightly older.

My son was pretty much of a REMF too, on his first deployment, and happy to be one. The second one, not so much. He never would talk about that one, but it left him with pretty bad PTSD....bad enough, in fact, that last month he became a statistic, one of the 22 vets that commits suicide every day.

Don't confuse a drunk tundra trash snowbilly with a real combat veteran who never wanted to be there.

[Kalidurga]

26. This should be an OP

Sarah is exploiting a real problem to get off the hook. People need to be reminded that war comes at a price and this is one of the worst costs of war. I think this is one of the worst things Palin has done. But, she does so many bad things it's hard to keep them all in mind.

[liberalfromaustin21]

25. Palin is truly shameless

And to think, we almost elected her back in 08. Ugh. I wish she would just go away...