Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 17, 2008
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Transcript:
B.D.: So what's next for you, Toggle? Any plans? Toggle: Oh, yes... plans! Want my old metal band... back... back together... and get deal... record! B.D: Um... but aren't you the vocalist? Toggle: Yes. Mom says I ... I can still scream! Woman: At night, honey. That's the PTSD. Toggle: Metal IS PTSD!
There are plenty of people who HAVE been in war and seem not to understand it. Airmen seem to dominate this group. When you see a pro-war vet, chances are they were doing their fighting with a control stick in their hand. I like video games so I can see where they are coming from to a point, I just have not made the jump from killing imaginary space-aliens to killing invisible people thousands of feet below me.