One way, of course, is through publications. I'm not going to plug the publication I write for, but nevertheless.... I write a veterans column in a military magazine. I've been constantly urging people, pointing out there's no shame in applying for post-traumatic stress disorder. It's an injury just as much as if you were hit by a shell. Just because there's no blood, it doesn't mean you're not suffering from an injury.
One of the more pleasant phone calls I got was from a guy who had quite an interesting time in Korea. He rode in the back of an unarmed aircraft looking for targets he had fired rockets at. Then the high-performance aircraft came and shot them and napalmed them and things like that. He said he had never thought of this. He decided to put in for it. To his surprise, he's getting treatment and getting a 60% pension from Veterans Affairs for it. He thanked me for letting him know.
We can do it through the Legion Magazine, and we've done it. We can do it through the Veterans Affairs newsletter. But there's an ingrained feeling I think that it is somehow shameful to admit you're suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. And there isn't.
It's very hard to explain to a very mature generation that there's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with claiming you've got it. People live with it. They bottle it up and they get worse. I find I can sleep at night, but a lot of my friends can't.