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To: Neeka who wrote (224913)	10/2/2015 3:13:28 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

People can become inured to the constant barrage of horrors we see and read about in the Media - until they see it or experience it first hand. Soldiers are trained to kill the enemy. They are subjected to the worst case scenarios in their training, but nothing prepares them for the real world of combat. They come home and have PTSD for the rest of their lives and a horrible number of them commit suicide because they can't get rid of the images. Even if they didn't see anything and were just on the campus, they will be affected by it probably for the rest of their lives. Some will deal with it and get on, but for a lot of them, it will have a heavy impact and change their lives. Does it seem like there's a lot more of this happening today than before? I remember Charles Whitman, who was probably the first, but it just seems to me that there's a lot more of it today than ever before.