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...military service members on combat tours - about 300,000 so far - returns home with symptoms of PTSD or major depression. "Anyone who goes through multiple deployments is going to be affected," says Dr. Matthew Friedman, director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD. But nearly half of these cases, according to the Rand study, go untreated because of the stigma that the military and civil society attach to mental disorders. The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, counseled returning vets with PTSD, though there is no proof that this work unleashed...
...wearing his civvies - as though, he mused, it was taboo for anyone in uniform to admit they might be cracking up. As in other areas, the military is undermanned when it comes to mental-health experts. The Army reckons it has only about 400 psychiatrists handling more than half a million troops. That may have been one reason the Army was reluctant to nudge a strangely performing Hasan, who had trained as a shrink, out of the service: it needed him. Faced with a wave of service members coming back from combat in anguish, the Pentagon has made the diagnosis...
With the wind behind them in the first half, the Harvard players looked to take advantage of the weather and pushed hard for an early goal...
After the goal, Harvard continued to dominate the first half but struggled to create chances...
...miss left Harvard with a mountain to climb in the second half. The Terrapins—now 12-0 this year in games in which they have scored first—had the wind at their backs as they tried to kill off the match...