FOX News
By Robert Gearty
Published April 04, 2014
“It’s putting a label on all veterans that veterans are psychotic or mentally unstable and they're going to shoot up places. And they’re not."Linking the Fort Hood shooting to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder only hurts American service members struggling to process their war experiences and make their way back in the civilian world, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer told FoxNews.com.
- Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor recipient
Meyer, a Marine who battled PTSD after coming home from Afghanistan, where he risked his life to recover the remains of three fallen brothers in arms, winced when he heard some reports attributing Army Spec. Ivan Lopez's Wednesday rampage to the condition. Lopez gunned down three fellow soldiers, wounded 16 and then killed himself when a military cop confronted him.
“Going out and shooting your own friends, your own people, that’s not PTSD,” Meyer, the youngest Medal of Honor recipient in history, told FoxNews.com. “I don’t know what the word is for it. It’s close to psychotic.
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